Spy for the Spiers (Meet Abby Banks #3) by J.A. Cipriano

An assassin out for revenge. A hidden tomb. An unlikely ally.

When the agency is brought to its knees by a couple of masked maniac, only Abby is left in a position to stop them from taking over completely. If she doesn't step in to stop Flash and Bang, the agency trying to kill her will be wiped off the planet.

The only catch is, if the agency dies, so will her father.

Spy for the Spiers is the third book in the Meet Abby Banks spy thriller series. Readers who enjoyed Sara Shepard's Lying Game series, Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series, or Robert Muchamore's Cherub series, will likely enjoy this young adult spy adventure.

After reading book number two in the Meet Abby Banks series, with a little bit of a confused opinion, I wanted to immediately continue to the third book, to try to straighten things out a bit. 

This book starts with a fight with a mechanical werewolf and features other random robot animals and ninjas and such, my particular favorite was a robot octopus pilot. 

I liked this book a lot more than book #2. The second book felt a little too all over the place, but this one was more focused on the main plot that worked up to the crazy ending. 

I thought that Meet Abby Banks was going to be a trilogy, but judging from the ending, there will be more to come. I'm really excited to see what happens next! 

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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The Spy Within (Meet Abby Banks #2) by J.A. Cipriano

Some people don't believe in government conspiracies. They're wrong. 

When sixteen-year-old Abby Banks escaped from the clutches of her terrorist mother, she thought she was home free... and she would have been if the government agency tasked with protecting her hadn't decided she was worth more dead than alive.

Now the only thing standing between Abby and freedom is the agency that kidnapped her as a young girl.

No big deal, right?

I read the first book in this series, May Contain Spies, about a year ago and enjoyed it. I was sent the sequel, but it kind of got buried under school work, a new job, and a crazy long list of other things. So, when I finally picked up book #2 of the Meet Abby Banks series, I was upset at myself for waiting so long to see what happened. 

The series started out well.  The first book was really well-written, but sometimes this book seems a little bit busy. There are a lot of moving parts to it. While it's not necessarily hard to follow, I think more could be added to make everything flow a little better. 

I'm not sure how I felt about the end of this book. With everything else going on, the plot that was the focus of the ending didn't seem like it was really a big deal in the context of the whole book. I feel like it would have been better to with more focus on that aspect of the story, leading up to the end.

Overall, this book was alright. The first was better, but this was worth the read, and I'm definitely going to keep going and read the third book, to see what happens to Abby, next.

I'll update in a couple of days and let you know how book #3 goes.

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Baby Doll by Hollie Overton

For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, Baby Doll is the most tense thriller you will read this year.
Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole lige. But one day, their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked.
This is what happens next...
...to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter...and to her captor.

So, I came across this book about a month after reading the book Room, just after seeing the movie when it came out. It seemed very similar, and I wanted to see if I liked it as much. 

At first, I thought perhaps it was a ripoff of Room. However, the more and more I got into it, the only real similarity is the main plot of the story. 

While Room is told from the POV of the little boy, Baby Doll rotates through several POVs. You get to hear the story through both twins, the mom, and even the abductor. That is something that I thought was interesting, not often do you get the perspective of the bad guy. The only thing that I wish was visited a little bit is the POV of the little girl. I think that would have added something to the story, but I can see why the author did not include this, as it would be hard to include this where it would flow well with the rest of the story.

Overall, I was pretty impressed with this book, especially since I figured it was a ripoff of another book. However, the books are way to different to accuse the author of that. 

If you liked Room, you will probably like this book. It also does not focus much on the actual acts that were done to the main character, just an FYI, as I know that a couple of people that I've talked to about room did not want to read it if it was too graphic about the abuse. Like room, while the abuse is mentioned, there are not graphic details, and the author does a good job at showing how much the abuse affected the main character without spelling out everything that was done to her.

This was overall, a good, easy read, and I would recommend it.

I received a copy of this book from the publishers, via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.