Book Review: Not If I Save You First

I usually like Ally Carter books. I read “I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You” about ten years ago and had a lot of fun. I read the next three, too. Then I read “Heist Society” and I liked it even more.

I saw this book in the book fair at school. As a teacher, I always get a few bucks to spend and I always try to get a book for the class, one for my daughter and one for my son. This time, I chose “Not If I Save You First” as the gift for my daughter, she’s eleven and she LOVED it.

Then I borrowed it to read it.

It started GREAT! The banter between the two kids was amazing and it got even better when they meet again as teenagers. It had a lot of promise.

But, then, something happened. There were a lot of things that didn’t make sense, and although the book was still entertaining, the things that couldn’t be kept bothering me. Like the fact they are in the middle of a snowstorm in Alaska and the character falls off a ravine and is bleeding and yet there she is, saving the day. They didn’t even have gloves and they were in the middle of a snowstorm? If the weather was bad enough for a plane to fly, their hands would have fallen off.

Yes, sounds ridiculous on my part, but it bothered me. From there a lot of other far-fetched things happened. It was still entertaining, but I liked the beginning better, it could’ve had more of that.

I give it three stars. Sorry, Ally Carter.

cheers!