Blast From the Past 2.0

At fourteen they asked me what I wanna be..

(Schoolin' Life reference!)

With all things I was interested in when growing up, and still am honestly, I am definitely going down the right career path! I promise you I wanted to be a spy so bad! You know, there is just a special appeal of undercover justice and being able to lay someone out in 2 seconds... Batman would approve. Also, look at the shows I watched: Powerpuff Girls, Totally Spies, Kim Possible (same initials and everything), Justice League, Spider-Man, Teen Titans, Static Shock! Me being me, it was more than just the shows, but books as well. I'm telling y'all I was (am) a nerd, but it is what it is LOL!

Squad Series:

I found this at the local library (free unless you rack up late fees of course lol), and I was initially turned off. I am not the cheerleading peppy type of girl, so I was wondering how cornball-ish this was going to be. I was wrong.

Toby Klein was far from "that type" of (airhead, popular) girl, but mainly because she relished in being different. She was a brilliant hacker, who despised her cliché high school that was centered around the jocks and cheerleaders. Well, one day she got a note from one of the cheerleaders to tryout for the team, but it wasn't just a regular piece of paper. It was double coded to the max, and once she accidentally discovered the hidden messages, she decided to see what was up with them. She meets these varsity girls and soon realizes she was the shallow, uninformed one. Long story short, each girl had an elite skillset in weapons, combat, intelligence, agility, etc. They were covert government operatives that could easily go undetected. Who's checking for the dumb cheerleaders? Toby realized that what they are doing isn't just basic assists, but uncovering deadly schemes and information that is detrimental to the nation's security. Now all she has to do is not mess up. She does actually have to the whole cheer thing, which she absolutely could do with out. Getting up at the crack of dawn to work on the case, and then practice right after, followed up by classes. Just NO!! 2 books, with enough variety and relatable attitude, to keep you turning those pages!

• Terrorist threats!
• Mission gone bloody wrong!
• Captain now rogue?
• Homecoming court (boy) drama of course!

Gallagher Girls Series:

Enter Gallagher Academy, an all girl prep school for only the elite of America. Special focuses on grooming these young women into being the greatest spies we have ever seen. Bruh.. If I could have found this school in real life I would have been their IMMEDIATELY!!

Cammie Morgan is one of the best in the school speaking, 14 different languages, taking martial arts as PE, and could kill a man with a few well placed noodles (Ehh she's a beast)! She is really known around campus as a chameleon, because she only lets you see her when she wants to be see. While she is tactically trained, Cammie doesn't really know how to interact on a "normal" level. As life goes, she begins to fall in love (she's like a sophomore and it's so funny now, because poor thing really thought it was love) but isn't sure how to handle it. He is just your average guy she wants to get close to and experience more than what is taught at Gallagher Academy. This guy though, is he really average? Where did he come from? HE's too good to be true, and we know how that goes. Well, Cammie is about to have a serious life lesson here on who to trust and let in, especially when you have access to some of the most valuable information and connections in the world. There are 6 books in this series, and boy does it get crazy!

• The school's security gets breached, and Cammie is looking like a prime suspect. Also, there is a merge with the boy's covert spy academy. Why guys and girls don't get along... we are to competitive!
• Mom's acting suspicious, ex-boyfriends popping up as if they never knew you, and school consequences looming.
• Kidnapping ordeal with her and her best friend (whose father is up for Vice President of the US), so that's a big deal. Who wants to take out this family and why?
• terrorist organizations, trusted ally being a rogue double-agent (fake friends everywhere I swear)!
• Months of memories forgotten, which are detrimental to everyone's survival. Which means... who really is the "good guy" in all of this?
• And the climax in the last book tying all of these events together!! Why has Cammie been hunted? Who started this and why? What does this mean for her, and this country?!

FUN FACT!!!!

I absolutely LOVE comic books!! I unfortunately do not have a collection, but do have some left over from my childhood. I am partial to Marvel, but honestly will read any and all of them. I get way too hype when these movie adaptations come out, but every kid hopes to see their favorite characters on the big screen some day! Stan Lee just needs to stay around forever for me, I enjoy his cameos in all the movies LOL!

Much Love,

Khariah