Reviewed by Lindsey Gray on
Enter Amanda Peterson, everyday Atlanta girl confused by her parents sudden divorce. Due to her mother's need to fix her or her aunt's prodding, Amanda ends up spending her fall break in Princeton, New Jersey.
I love the concept of this story. A girl finding out she's been trained to be a spy and doesn't even know it. Amanda takes the news from her aunt, an agent with the Global Agency for Shared Intelligence or GASI for short, rather well. I think I would have booked Aunt Christie a ride to the nearest mental health facility. Nothing like that would ever happen in my life.
For her first mission, which she chooses to accept, she is sent to investigate Princeton Academy's number one hottie, Will Middleton. Unlike most fifteen-year-old girls, Amanda is shy and has no idea how to hook the hottie in question. Personally, I wouldn't of known how either. At fifteen I had no idea what was going on in a guy's mind let alone thinking of ways to "befriend" one. Amanda does a stellar job at making the first move. Their "meet-cute" is just that, cute. Since Amanda only has six days, their friendship develops quickly thanks to Aunt Christie, Christie's hottie partner, Nic, and some of the best technology GASI has in it's arsenal.
I knew that there had to be a twist coming when there was only a few days left until Amanda was hopping on a plane back to Atlanta. What happens was something I hadn't expected, so bravo Juli Alexander! So often I am able to predict the way a story will go. I LOVE it when I'm wrong.
According to an interview Alexander did with Killer Fiction, Amanda and Will get a chance at another adventure with book 2, "Undercover with the Hottie".
"Investigating the Hottie" was provided to me from the author through NetGalley. Thank you NetGalley and Juli Alexander for the pleasure of experiencing this novel. I'll be picking up book 2 as soon as it comes out.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 30 May, 2013: Finished reading
- 30 May, 2013: Reviewed