Book Review: Sealed with a Lie by Kat Carlton

Sealed with a Lie
Two Lies and a Spy # 2
Author: Kat Carlton
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Mystery
Released: September 2nd 2014
Review Source: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 

In this sequel to the romantic spy-thriller Two Lies and a Spy, Kari must race the clock on a mission to save her little brother.

Kari Andrews thought life was going to get easier. She was wrong. Following the events of Two Lies and a Spy, she and her brother, Charlie, are left to cope with the aftermath while also adapting to a new school—in another country. And then Charlie disappears.

With her brother’s life hanging in the balance, Kari, Evan, Rita, Kale, and some new friends from Generation Interpol (G.I.) are on a race around Europe at the bidding of a voice on a phone. The voice tells them that they need to jailbreak a thief—a flirtatious, hot thief—steal something from a high-security bio lab, and deliver the goods during what’s sure to be a double-cross exchange. Can they succeed before Charlie pays the ultimate price?

Sealed with a Lie is the sequel of Two Lies and a Spy series. One must read the first book to understand what is going on. Onto the review…

Kari’s life seems to be falling apart. Not only did she recently learned her parents are traitors, move to Paris to train to become a spy (like her parents) but now her brother is kidnapped! Sucks for her. To top her non-existing life, she breaks up with her boyfriend. Now Kari must learned how to work with people she does not trust in order to get her brother back. She does everything and anything for Charlie. Such an unconditional love.

Okay, so I honestly liked this one better than the first. I think it’s the fact that she did everything in her power to have her brother back. But like the first, I think her voice is monotone - though she is getting better. I just did not like that she kept repeating that she needed to rescue her brother every other page. I get it. Your brother is kidnapped and you want him back.

Before opening the book, I hoped the story will go into details of her new training school. I believed we were going to learned more of how a spy is trained, but it did not. I was kind of disappointed at this. The ending was really good, which is another reason why I liked the sequel better than the first. Unfortunately I cannot say the ending because it will be a spoiler.

Two Lies and a Spy is an okay series and I hope to be surprised with the last book.

Book Review: Two Lies and a Spy by Kat Carlton

Two Lies and a Spy
Two Lies and a Spy # 1
Author: Kat Carlton
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Mystery
Released: September 3rd 2013
Review Source: Purchased

Kari plunges into the world of espionage on a mission to save her parents while trying to impress the guy she’s been in love with forever.

When sixteen-year-old Kari’s dad sends her an unexpected text, she and her brother immediately go into hiding. Because when your parents are superspies and your dad declares a Code Black, it can only mean something bad. Very bad.

Kari soon discovers that her parents have been disavowed and declared traitors, and she’s determined to clear their names. Breaking into the Agency seems like a reasonable plan, especially with the help of a team that includes her longtime crush, Luke, as well as her two best friends—an expert hacker with attitude and a master martial artist—and Luke’s popular, vindictive twin sister. Oh, and a new guy, who’s as cute as he is complicated...

Browsing through Barnes and Nobles shelves, I found myself intrigued by Two Lies and a Spy. Kari Andrews is the daughter of spies. How cool is this? Being trained at an early age in martial arts and pretty much any other cool things a spy is able to do, Kari and her brother have the coolest parents. Though they do travel a lot, meaning they are always alone. However, as I flipped through the pages, I began to drift apart.

When Kari receives a cryptic text-message from her father, she knows there is something wrong. She leaves her prep-school to meet up with her genius young brother. Once they are together, they are confronted by strangers and this alerts Kari that her parents are in danger. She disguises and hides. Yet she is unable to stay still so she begins to digs for the truth.

Okay so some parts of the story I enjoyed. There is a twist of the story and I would like to know what will happen to her parents. Yet for the most part, the story was okay. The story is told in Kari’s perspective, we get into her head but her voice at times was monotone. One of the things I really enjoyed of this story is Kari’s affection toward her brother. She does everything and anything to keep him safe. Overall, I will be reading the next installment of this series, I am very curious of Kari’s “revenge”.