This is Kelsey Patterson with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
For more than a decade, author Ally Carter has wowed Young Adult audiences with her trademark style of equal parts hilarious action adventure and heart pounding romance. Now ready to share her talents with adult rom-com readers, she offers her newest book, The Blonde Identity.
It’s the middle of the night in the middle of Paris and a woman just woke up with no memory. She only knows three things for certain:
1. She has a splitting headache.
2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her to run.
And oh yeah...
3. People keep trying to kill her.
She doesn’t know who or why. But when she sees footage of herself fighting off a dozen men at once, there’s only one obvious explanation...she’s a spy! Except according to Mr. Hot Guy, she’s not. She’s a spy’s identical twin sister. Too bad the only person who knows she’s not the woman they’re looking for is this very grouchy, way too good-looking secret agent who (reluctantly) agrees to help her disappear. Which is easier said than done when a criminal organization wants you dead and every intelligence service in the world wants you caught.
Luckily, no one is looking for a pair of lovesick newlyweds on their honeymoon. And soon they’re lying their way across Europe—dodging bullets and faking kisses as they race to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister’s name.
Spies, amnesia, pulse-pounding action and witty banter abound in this book. I got so caught up in it that I binged all 304 pages in one sitting. At every turn, the author so perfectly ratchets up the danger—and the romantic tension.
Check out The Blonde Identity at the Sioux City Public Library.
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