I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, 1)

It is so sad when horrible titles and silly covers happen to good books. After reading Heist Society, by Ally Carter, (another stupid title) I knew to look past the packaging with her Gallagher Girls series and give it a shot. But I am not going to lie, I never would have picked up a book called I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You... not without previous knowledge of the author's story telling prowess!Cammie Morgan is a Gallagher Academy legacy, and her mother is the headmistress, but she is another kind of legacy, too. Both Cammie's parents were spies. In fact, the Gallagher Academy is a school for teen girl spies-in-training. The town where Gallagher Academy resides, however, thinks the Academy is for over-privileged rich girls. The girls' first mission is to keep the deep cover of the school and remember their legends (back stories) with the rest of the town.On a routine Covert Ops assignment (tail an untailable faculty member), Cammie is noticed by a local boy. This wouldn't be so unnerving if Cammie wasn't considered the best "pavement artist" at the Academy. She is able to go completely unnoticed and blend into the background in any situation... so how did Josh see her? With a hilarious troupe of misfit young female spies, Cammie and her genius friends begin Covert Ops on Josh to make sure he isn't a Honey Pot (a person using attraction to derail a spy). But Cammie's star-crossed interest in Josh could lead to more trouble than they bargained for!The first installment of the Gallagher Girls Series is really fun! It isn't the deepest story, or have some important lesson to be learned, but instead is just some good, wholesome, PG-13 rated fun! I can understand the critics of the series who are worried about the "action" of the story, but it is important to remember these girls are 15-16 years old. There isn't any real spy trouble at the academy (although I predict it might appear later in the series) because these are young girls in training. But the fun, silly happenings are still enough to keep a reader engaged and laughing.The reading level is fairly low, the content is very, very mild, and the story is lots of fun. This is the perfect book for early middle school. I would recommend this for a wide range of students (although I don't think it would appeal to boys), including high skilled 4th graders all the way to 9th grade. It might even be suitable for a low-skilled 10-12th grader, but only if they are a little more immature than their peers. I can imagine this series might be too young for most older students. But if you find the right girl to read this series, you are going to have a happy reader!

This is a fun book. One to sit on the beach and just enjoy. No thinking, no hidden meaning in it just one to laugh at and enjoy. The first of the Gallagher Girls introduces us to Cammie, Macey, Bex, Liz and Josh. Josh is the boy that Cammie, Bex and Liz do recon on so that Cammie can date him.They want to make sure he's okay for Cammie not a spy or agent. And the shenanigans they go through to find this out are hysterical.Or even just some of the everyday things are funny. Bex in driver's ed. "Rebecca, that could have been a pedestrian,"Madame Dabney warned, but she didn't use her emergency brake, so now I'll always wonder what Madame Dabney saw in France to make her definition of "emergency" so wildly skewed."After learning about garbage and its meaning in Coveops class (with the handsome Jo Solomon) they decide to try this out so who will this happen to and create a report on said Garbage :"Report of trash taken from the home of Josh AbramsNumber of empty Ben & Jerry's containers:3- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben and Jerry's anyway? Is there a greater waste?)Number of Pottery Barn catalogs: 14 (no items marked or otherwise identified, even though the Windsor Washable Throw Pillows were on sale and appeared to be quite a bargain.)" Her dates and them being analyzed by everyone is hysterical. These girls are classic especially since only Macey has been around boys before.Cammie's thoughts of a minivan are great:"I'd never been in a minivan before. It was like the road-trip portion of my great small-town experiment-with cup holders. Take it from someone who is highly interested in gadgetry on both a personal and professional level-the modern day espionage world has nothing on the good folks at General Motors when it comes to cup holder design."Of all the things to think about when going on a date cup holders.This is how the whole book goes just fun entertainment.A wonderful story filled with laughter and just fun entertainment. Great for the beach.

I decided to read this book because I had previously read the Heist Society series and I had read a lot of good reviews about and I really enjoyed reading this book and cannot wait to get started on the next one.Cammie is a student at Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women and also the Head teachers daughter. The Gallagher Academy is an all girls school for young spies where the girls are taught various languages and numerous ways to kill someone.Cammie and the rest of the sophomore girls get to join the Cov Ops class and the first mission Cammie and her friends go on turns out to be a lot more complicated than they first thought, Cammie falls in love while on the mission.Cammie has to make up stories so that she can keep on seeing him without letting it slip that she goes to Gallagher Academy. This is easy for Cammie as she is taught on how to keep a fake identity straight, her friends help her to get to know the guy by pulling off their own missions and stake outs to get dirt on the lad.This story has a lot of great scenes that I want to write about but if I do the it will spoil it so if you have't yet read this book WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is a full-throttle spy story come love story. It's a sweet and totally sassy read.My students have been telling me that I need to read this book for ages. Finally I took their advice and I am so pleased I did. This is book is great! I really enjoyed reading it.Cammie is a sophomore at the Gallagher Academy. A school for female spies which hides behind the facade of a private elitist school for geniuses. Cammie's beautiful mum is the Headmistress of the school and is an exceptional spy herself (although no longer in the field). The new term has begun and this year sees the sophomores begin their Covert Operations training. It tests their spy skills to the limit but for Cammie it presents a more emotional challenge. Her father died on a mission and the details may be classified but there is no doubt that becoming an undercover agent and entering enemy territory is the most dangerous type of spying there is. Cammie must face all the risks and decide if she really wants to follow in her father's footsteps.As if Cammie's life isn't interesting enough, when she's out on a mission, she's spotted by a teenage town boy. No one ever sees Cammie. She's known as the Chameleon. Even her own friends find it hard to spot her. So why does this boy see through her spy skills. Is he dangerous? Is he boyfriend material? Is he both? Cammie is about to investigate with the help of her best friends.I really don't have much more to say other than I couldn't put the book down. I loved all the spy speak, the technology and the training. It was funny but it was also full of action. The characterisation was great. I really felt Cammie's emotions. I never would have expected on picking up this book to have tears in my eyes at the end. But that's what happened. My pupils have the best taste in books.I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is great contemporary fiction for teens. The girls are the heroes which is exactly what I want to see in modern children's fiction. This is the Spice Girls in a book: Friends forever and all the more powerful for it. I'm quite the fan.Recommended for Fans of:Spy Girl by Carol HedgesHacking Harvard by Robin Wasserman

Although this series was before that of 'Heist Society', I read this after I read the slick thief novels. I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You is a book which is predominantly set in a small town in america and the mysterious private school that sits on the outskirts. It follows a love affair between a 'norm' and a 'spy'. After reading 'Heist Society' I really thought of Ally Carter as a great writer and one who I would come to follow, so after I read all three of the Heist Society books I felt the need to go onto read Carter's other books. I am in a mixed bowl, in some ways I wasn't disappointed, yet in some ways I was utterly disappointed. In some places I felt like it was just a little lack lustre in some places, there was too much love and not enough spy in my opinion. Furthermore in some places it was a little cliché - the intelligent one who seems to have no clue about anything social or anything which isn't academic for that matter, the firecracker and finally the invisible one who seems to attract a very handsome compatriot. The reasons I did like it however, I overall liked the characters despite their clichédness they were characters who you could imagine being your friend. The humour was funny and not forced and the relationships between the characters were believable and inviting.I only gave this 3 stars because I was a little disappointed, I have however put it down to the fact that it was an introductory book, an introduction to series so I am looking forward to the book and hopefully it will be much, much better.

Maybe i'm biased as a reader reviewing the first book when i have read the whole series and LOVED IT! But honestly i cannot praise these books enough. I fall right into the category of the 'target audience' though never really felt like it was overly cheesy or that the romance came in too much.You can relate to characters, laugh at them because this book isn't short of humor and i never predicted the outcome EVER. In the end, this book isn't about a normal girl, it's about a spy girl who thinks slightly differently, who is a SPY. I enjoyed reading the spy, information type stuff just as i enjoyed the 'girly' romance.Honestly these books shaped my early teens years and if i don't say so myself i've turned out pretty amazing!!

Not a book I would normally read. Not my generation.However will I read the next book? Probably yes.:-)