But she also has her own personal morality that makes sense and spending time in her brain made me, a 33 year old lady (*jenna marbles voice*), feel smarter. Also, Charlie is the only kid character (weird!) and she's sassy and rebellious af! YES. This is a gritty kids book, it's gripping, and I could hardly put it down once I started it. The bad guys are white supremacists motivated by their hatred of refugees and the CIA is not to be trusted because of their allegiance to a government who would take Einstein's last equation and use it for nefarious purposes (as that govt did in the past with Einstein's former work). I mean, it is definitely NOT realistic, but I think it takes its ridiculous 12=year-old-genius-recruited-by-the-CIA premise and shows a world that is still somehow based in reality. It's very much something a 12 year old (or in that range) could appreciate for it's realistic depiction of espionage and manhunts - not anything worse than a movie or video game. I mean, maybe no cursing, no sex? No actual gore? But there's quite a lot of violence which I was surprised about! And honestly, I really liked that about it. I really liked this and was honestly hard-pressed to differentiate it between an action-packed spy book for adults.
Maybe I should start reading more spy books?! There's that non-fiction one right now by Amarylis Fox hmmm.ĪNYWAY. Plus, I do surprisingly like a lot of spy stories - Alias, Harriet, Homeland (problematic guilty pleasure?), American Spy, D.E.B.S., Code Named Verity, etc. I wanted a book I could suggest to boys (and mothers of boys who obviously have internalized misogyny) that had a girl protag. I am quite surprised by how much I liked this! A middle grade spy thriller? Very off-brand for me.
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