Grace can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world, and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row.
Now, at age sixteen, she’s come back to stay ― in order to solve the mystery of her mother’s death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if she and the world are to be saved.
My Review
I enjoyed this book but I haven’t fallen in love with the series … yet. I found Grace a character who was a bit tough to warm up to – mainly because as the reader I was stuck in her mind for the whole novel and I didn’t really know what was real and what was in her head. And there are a number of different twists and turns in this futuristic, murder mystery novel. By the end of the book, I was a bit confused and not sure what to make of it all.
The main weaknesses I found in this book circled around plot. Although it seems like a contemporary novel about Grace’s mental unbalance (brought on by witnessing her mother’s murder), it veers off in so many different directions that by the end of the book I was exhausted.
I think this book just tried to be too many things at once (a murder mystery, a spy novel, a dystopian novel, a romance) and the intermingled plot lines leave the reader feeling tired by the end (rather than anticipating the next book in the series).
If you are an Ally Carter fan, you may want to check this book out. For me, I doubt I’ll be reading any more of this series.
