The Assassin’s Guide to Babysitting

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Author(s)

Natalie C. Parker

Publisher

Candlewick Press

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Age Range

14+

Release Date

January 07, 2025

ISBN

978-1536230093

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This riveting, superpowered adventure unveils a shadow world of Talented bounty hunters—and plumbs the nature of identity, deadly secrets, and found family.

Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful. Hiding failed to keep Tru’s parents alive, but moments before their murder, Tru’s mom pointed her to Logan Dire, a famed recluse assassin who adopted and trained orphaned Tru. At seventeen, she’s still hiding. Not even her closest friends know her true name or Talent, or that she’s balancing high school with knife and stealth training (while crushing on her BFF’s older sister).When assassins interrupt a mundane babysitting job booked through BountyApp—where lethal hunters find work and babysitters for their kids—Tru flees with a one-year-old strapped to her chest and spiraling questions: Who killed her parents? Whom can she trust? What does it mean to be a bastion? And is it ever OK to kiss a girl who’s trying to hunt you down?From an award-winning author comes a masterfully plotted thriller that holds character and relationship on a par with action and nail-biting suspense.

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October 14, 2024

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What I liked: The Assassian's Guide to Babysitting had just what I expected: an unexpected society with special powers, surprising twists, and secrets waiting to be uncovered. When True and her friend go to babysit that they are expecting to watch an innocent baby sleep, drool, and poop. What unfolds is anything but; on the run, after her friend leaves to do a job with her sister, Tru is now entrusted with keeping the baby safe from everyone who wants to own her and her special powers. We soon learn that Tru is like this baby, hiding a set of powers everyone fears.
Final Verdict: The world-building is what I expect from this author, giving us just a bit as we learn about the world and are thrust fully into the story. I admit I picked up the book cause I was hoping for a story like the Movie Adventures in Babysitting, which we get. Still, instead of drug dealers, we have superhero-type powers and secrets about those powers and a baby instead of a collection of children of various ages. The Assassian's Guide to Babysitting ends like there is more story to tell, so I hope there is more cause I want to know more about this world and Tru.