I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You (Gallagher Girls #1)

Reader reviewed by Meghan W.

Cammie isn't your normal girl. She doesn't go to a normal school, she doesn't have normal friends, and her life definitely isn't normal.

Cammie goes to an all girls school for spies. And her mother is the headmistress.

Of course, no one knows it's a school for spies. They just think it's a boarding school for preppy rich girls who's mommys and daddys send them there. In reality, that's the farthest from the truth.

Callie is at the local fair one night, and she runs into this guy Josh. Of course, being a spy and everything, she's got a cover. So Josh doesn't know she's a spy. She leaves, and Josh still really wants to talk to her. He tries to talk to her the next couple times they run into each other, but she keeps running off, since she's not supposed to hang out with him.

Eventually she gives in, and starts hanging with him every once in awhile. Of course, to do this she has to sneak out of school, which requires the help of her friends, Liz, Bex and their new roommate Macey, who just happens to be an expert in the world of guys.

These girls are spies, and they are trained to find out everything they can about a person. Even if finding out means hacking into his school's computer system, ransacking his house, and even going through his garbage to see what he likes. And they have to do it all without getting caught and having to attend some of the hardest classes in the toughest school, with very watchful (and sometimes, very cute) teachers.

This is an extraordinary book that will leave you looking for more.

Reader reviewed by Jennie

Id Tell You I love you, But then I would have to kill you.

The Book was about a girl who goes to an all girls school&..for teen spies. She meets this guy one night while on a practice mission. She likes him a lot, but he can never know how she really is&
It was a good book. I liked the book a lot! Cant wait for the sequel!

Reader reviewed by Chioma

I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You is a book worth reading. It is about this all girls spy acadamy disguised as a snot noise rich girls private school. The main character Cammie not only a student at the acadamy but is also the deans daughter. One day on what they would call a practice mission for the first time Cammie notices that a guy is actually notices her. At first she dismisses it as her imagination but when she tells her friends they have a different opinion of the situation. When he is all checked out Cammie and this boy make a date. Now she has to deal with her biggest mission ever. Keeping her spy life and her love life seperate. This is definately a great read.

Reader reviewed by Kit-Kat

Some parts of the book were good (the yay) and some parts were not so good (the nay).

I thought the narrator had a strong voice, not literally, but I could really see the character behind it. Unfortunately, I didn't think any of the other characters were as developed. Josh, the main character's love, was the completely flat.

I also thought the story was told in a very funny way - lots of humor and laughs. HOwever, although the story started out with a good foundation (spy school - how awesome!) I found that as I kept reading, the plot started to bore me.

Phrases, many of which were jokes, started to be repeated over and over again, to the point where they weren't funny anymore, but kind of annoying.

Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy (the sequel) is much better!

Reader reviewed by Alexandra M.

THIS IS BY FAR. BY FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR: MY FAVORITE BOOK IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. I'm not even kidding. Before ILKY I NEVER read and I hated it. But ILYK opened a completely new world of "chick lit" and "teen" to me that I never really knew about. In fact, now, I have...lets see...13 books for me to read THAT I OWN.

Cammie Morgan, as you may know or not know, goes to an all-girls school for spies, Bex and Liz are her best friends. She then falls in love with Josh, a normal guy living in a perfect, peachy keen, neighbor-borrows-sugar-from-you-to-bake-a-pie sort of town. BUT her mother is the headmistress--causing Cammie to go unseen and undercover and really use her spy-skills to see Josh. And figure out if he's not some secret spy for the school.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get this book it will suck you in like a vaccuum cleaner! Ally Carter is the best!

Reader reviewed by Rin

Cammie. a student at the Gallagher Academy, the spy academy for girls. They study things like secret operations, 14 languages and assimilation into other cultures/settings.

Things start to get shaken up when Cammie falls in love with a civilan by the name of Josh. And no way can she reveal her identidy to him.

Besides that, there's also the relationship that Cammie has with her headmistress mother and her grief for her father who died while on an important spy mission.

Trying to keep her identidy secret, and desiring to get closer to Josh leave Cammie torn and her hiding her identidy leads to a funny humourous plot that teens will love.

I'd reccommend this book for a good evening of reading and you'll be sure to want to read the next one.

Reader reviewed by the book muncher

Meet Cameron Morgan. She's just an ordinary girl, if you consider being a genius and a spy trainee normal.


What I really liked about this book was that it combined two of my favorite genres; I would consider it both an action and a romance novel. Cammie the Chameleon falls in love with a totally unsuspecting local town boy. Of course, she cant tell him why shes so smart and that shes going to an elite school for spy training. Soon, her life becomes more complicated than passing her next Covert Operations test.


Cammie has to invent a false identity and weave a web of lies, including but not limited to a cat named Suzie and being homeschooled for religious reasons, in order to get closer to Josh. But no matter how good a spy she is, the cracks soon show. Finally, the truth has to come out. And everyone knows that the truth has consequences.


The storyline is pretty predictable until you reach the surprise ending. This book is really cute and a fun read. I would highly recommend this book and its sequel, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy.

Reader reviewed by Natalie

Cammie Morgan is your typical student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. She takes the same classes, and she has the same ambition: to become a spy. Under the guise of a school for rich geniuses, the Gallagher Academy is really a spy academy for exceptional young women. who do have martial arts black belts, are fluent in fourteen languages, and are expert in hacking into almost anything.
Sophomore year is when the students start their first field work, in Covert Operations class. Cammie and her friends are thrilled that they're finally getting real experience.Cammie is also known as Chameleon because she is very good at not being seen which is perfect for being a spy. Then something goes wrong. Cammie takes on a covert operation of her own.

Out one night on a mission someone sees her. Not just anyone...a boy and falls for him. Unable to tell him who she really is, she uses all her skills to track him and accidently-on-purpose bump into him. But is that enough? In a school where final exams involve being kidnapped, Cammie is about to get her most challenging assignment: transforming herself into a normal girl to date a normal boy.

Reader reviewed by Kristin

I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You is about a girl named Cammie who is chameleon-a person who blends in with her surroundings. Her mother is the headmaster at the all-girl boarding school she goes to, which happens to be a school for genius spies. She knows 14 languages, but after meeting a hot guy, she cannot figure him out at all.

I can't explain it at all so go read the Amazon summary which makes much more sense! Anyways, I realized that we are all like Cammie, we feel like our friends are prettier, skinnier, smarter, etc. than us and since we are so average, we just blend in.

I loved the parts where Cammie, Bex, and Liz were trying to decipher the "guy code" all by themselves. They were looking him up on the CIA database, intercepting his emails, and even trifling through his trash. I guess this is an exaggerated version of what all girls do when they want to know what the heck the guy is thinking and he likes us or not.

This book has an ending that is definitely not what I expected, but satisfying nevertheless.

Reader reviewed by linda

Imagine you went to an exclusive private school where you learn every language in the world, how to kill someone with a piece of uncooked spaghetti, and how to track someone through a carnival. This is Gallagher Academy for Gifted girls, gifted girls who become spies. What they forget to teach you about is how to deal with guys so when Cammie, a student at Gallagher, meets a totally cute guy who is interested in her she freaks out! Now the girls are rummaging through his garbage and breaking into his house to find out more. It's not your usual love story but it's quite cute and a good read.