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Rating: 3.5/5
Pages: 400
Started: 5 August 2022
Finished: 7 August 2022
Summary:
As Sara is heading to court, prepared to be sentenced to Juvie for attempting to expose her fraudulent and abusive foster parents through her hacking skills, a mysterious man appears, offering her a deal: he'll get rid of her sentence if she agrees to attend a boarding school in Scotland until she turns 18. The only caveat is that she will be moonlighting as an MI6 agent on a team of kids. Eager both to escape prison and to prove her talent, Sara, along with four other extraordinarily talented children, embarks on a mission whose outcome the fate of MI6 rests.
Thoughts:
This was quite a good book for a middle reader. It was simple but not boringly so. Again, the brain fog continues, so I can't be sure of how high praise this really is, but I didn't predict most of the plot points. I really liked how capable and competent all the characters were, and how all of the few mistakes made were almost immediately righted. It was a clever and satisfying quick read whose only downfall was the title. In the book, each spy was given a code name based on where they were recruited, thus City Spies. I didn't have any issues with the name at the start, but the "revelation" that the group should be named after the pattern of their aliases was overdone and frankly quite idiotic sounding when you think about it. I may read the next book in the series, because I did genuinely enjoy this one, and I'll simply have to do my best to forget the title.