Not If I Save You First

Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter

So I have been a fan of Ally Carter since tweendom as I loved the Gallagher Girls series and then of course that led to me reading her other stuff.

I hadn’t had a chance to read this when it first was aded in the library, but then it was returned and I decided to check it out.

Maddie’s dad is secret service and she grew up hanging out with Logan-the president’s son. Both are ten years old and want to have fun hanging out, but they have to go to a Presidential Gala. That night they are getting ready for a Gala when a group of Russians attempt to kidnap the president’s wife.

Maddie’s dad saves them, but is injured in the process. After the operations and healing he packs up all their stuff and takes Maddy to the middle of nowhere Alaska.

Six years later-Maddy has grown up alone with her father-bored but strong, tough, and can shoot and throw a hatchet better than ANYONE. A bejeweled hatchet as she is bored.

But life gets all changed up when Logan, who has been misbehaving, ignoring his father’s warnings, ditching the secret service, and just acting out-gets sent to live with Maddie and her father. Maddie is furious as she wrote him letters almost every day but never ever received one back.

Maddie hates and is furious at him, but when her father has to leave on a rescue mission and  Russians attack them and try to kill Logan-Maddie has to put her anger aside and try and save him.

Thoughts After Reading:

I didn’t like this book. I thought it was okay, but boring. Logan just all and out annoyed me and needed to get smacked.

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Christina’s Ghost

 Christina’s Ghost by Betty Ren Wright

Christina and her sister are supposed to be spending time with Grandma while their parents are off vacationing in Alaska, but it turns out the trip won’t work as Grandma is in surgery. Aunt Grace takes Christina’s sister, while Christine is forced to go with her Uncle Ralph.

Ralph is an unmarried, workaholic, who only cares about himself. He doesn’t like children, especially those who don’t look or act like how girls are supposed to. Yes, Christine has short hair, wears baggy boyish clothing, and is a tomboy.

Seriously!

Ralph is really weird just ignoring her, while expecting her to entertain herself in a house that is far from everything.

However, Christine gets more entertainment than she bargained for when she finds a ghost boy. There is something not right with the house, a murder occurred there years earlier. Is the boy trying to warn them or was he the instigator of the crimes?

At first Ralph thinks that Christine is making it up, but he soon becomes a chief officer in the ghost hunt.

Thoughts After Reading:

I thought it was an okay story. It wasn’t super developed and the mystery was pretty boring and bad.

But I did like how the relationship with the uncle and niece grew.

For more by Betty Ren Wright, go to The Dollhouse Murders

For more ghosts, go to Midnight in Austenland

For more young adult mysteries, go to Beyond the Grave: A Choose Your Own Ending Mystery Adventure

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Everybody Called Her a Saint

Everybody Called Her a Saint (Everybody’s a Suspect #3) by Cecil Murphy

Twila Belk is everybody’s favorite person, called a saint for her kindness and generosity.

In fact, she has decided to take a troupe of her best friends and clients on an Alaskan cruise.

Meanwhile, since the last book Dr. Julie West has given her heart to Christ and Pastor James Burton.

However, when Pastor Burton revealed a secret from his past, she broke up with him.

Not wanting to see him at all, she finds herself stuck with him in near proximity as he too has been invited to join the cruise.

When Twila is found murdered, the two will have to put their feelings aside and help solve which of their “friends” is a killer.

Thoughts After Reading:

I did not like it.

The characters are poorly written, their interactions horrible; it just was a bad read all around.

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