Ally Carter is a great writer and this book just proves it. She weaves in the new mysteries and includes some old ones too, just to tie all of the books together. Once it comes down to the final showdown, I wouldn't be surprised to see all of the characters (spies or not) included in the battle. This series is fantastic, and I definitely recomend this book

Full review to come! :)

It is extremely, extremely rare for me to call a book badass and adorable at the same time and to mean it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is one of those times. This book was so cute I can't even tell you but the whole spy aspect of it was incredibly cool and a blast to read about. Full of twists and turns I didn't see coming and a lot of sweet and funny moments as well as cool fighting scenes. More than once I was asking myself how on earth Ally Carter thought of all this bad More...

This has just become one of those series, that I am crazy about.
If the first volume ,wasn't that awesome,the second and the third was like a boom of epicness.
The action begins in Boston, where Macey and Cammie, are together because of some president elections,very important for Macey's parents.But apparently this trip doesn't end very well.
The girls end up pretty damaged,but not as damaged as Cammie thinks.
The third book was different from the other 2 before, because in this one there were no mo More...

This review is also posted on my blog, In The Good Books.

When Cammie visits her roommate and friend, Macey, in Boston, where her father's being nominated for vice president, she expects an exciting end to summer break. Excitement she gets, when she and Macey find themselves in a kidnapper's plot.

Luckily, escaping is just one the things they do best, as students of the Gallagher Academy For Exceptional Young Women - a spy school in disguise. But soon they find out that it isn't over yet, and as m More...

I finished the galley for this book last week and I really enjoyed it. I think each book could have more in it though. I'm not sure what I mean about more, but the books are spread out too far and are too forgettable that if there was more to it, I wouldn't have to spend the first few chapters trying to remember what happened in the last book. Maybe it needs more action or more missions or something. That being said, I always enjoy the books when I am reading them and this one is no different. I More...

This was a great book. It started out with everything all in check but of course something has to go wrong. I think that all teenage girls should definitely read this book.

I hope I can wait for this book to come out. I am sooooooooooo excited! Ally Carter is a great writer, and everyone should read the Gallagher Girls series.

I read an action-filed, girl-power novel called Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter. It was published by Disney and Copyrighted by Ally Carter in 2009. It is geared specifically to teenage girls who enjoy reading girl-power books where females are the ones who kick-butt! This novel is the third book out of five in the Gallagher Girl series by Ally Carter. Ally Carter has also written another series of books (that I have not read) called the Heist Society Series that includes three boo More...

Note: Spoilers abound!

This is the entire review from my blkog. I rated this as warty. I only read it because I'd already checked out volumes 2 & 3 from the library after enjoying volume 1, but the next two volumes sucked. Below is the entire review from my own blog.

I don't know what it was about that first volume; maybe it was the novelty of the novel and the fresh voice, and the promise of a fun series, but I really liked it. Vol. 2, not so much! Were my expectations too high after the firs More...

by Ally Carter
Realistic Fiction
263 pages
Finished 4-5-13

This book is the third in the Gallagher Girls series. The main characters, Cammie, Macey, Liz, and Bex have just gotten back from summer vacation and have started their junior year at the Gallagher Girl Academy, but a lot has changed. At the end of summer vacation, Cammie and Macey, the daughter of the next potential vice president, are ambushed on a rooftop in Boston. The Academy and Secret Service have reason to believe that Macey was the More...

This was pretty much the first Gallagher book I read(to later find out I was reading them in the wrong order). I was confused, she was good to put a little 'catch-up' in the beginning of the book but that wasn't enough, because she kept mentioning this mysterious boy with a dip-like kiss and some other strange things. But I still read it all. Later at the end I understood this was part of a Saga and forced my dad to buy me the other fours that were already on sale.

I read the first, but was a li More...

This book is amazing!
The series is just way too brilliant.
Cammie's went to visit her roommate Macey in their vacation... well more like Macey wanted her there. Cammie and Macey are attacked on a roof by a terrorist group called the Circle Of Caven. They were after Macey. Lot's and lot's of people wanted to protect Macey and especially since her father is a senator she get's the best people to protect her possible. Agent Abby Cameron is Macey's full time bodyguard and also Cammie's Aunt and Rache More...

Great book! I really enjoyed it. Finally! We get to see some real action happen to Cammie and her friends that is not part of training. With the book starting with some exciting action scenes, I was totally enjoying it. I really like how we get to see and know more about Macey. The bonding moments between her and Cammie were very nice to read about. There are also new characters introduced in this book that made the story much more interest: Cammie’s aunt, Abby; Preston, the governor’s son. Ther More...

Wow! Now THAT is a book with substance.

Seriously, I can't believe how good this was. The other books in the series just start off light and preppy, so I never thought they were "serious". But this book... This book introduced danger from the very beginning. I guess that it could represent the fact that the girls are older, therefore wiser, therefore could get into more danger? Nevertheless, Ally Carter found a way to seamlessly weave all the conflicts of the past books, and then add a ton more More...

Cammie goes to a spy school and while her friend Marcie needs her help so she goes to boston and see a person who looks like someones she knows.
Well Marcie and Cammie where walking around with the furture president's son Preston, well some people try to kidnap Cammie and Marcie. So Cammie's Mother Rachel comes as soon as she hear her daughter was hurt. She returns to school and so does Marcie, well a few times turning this semester Marcie is put up with an agent Abby aka Aunt Abby. So Cammie ha More...

This book is more serious than the others. Unlike the first two, the danger is right at the beginning. No more playing games for the Gallagher girls!

The girls’ relationships are not so tight-knit. They’re all under a lot of stress and it starts to show.

The Gallagher Girl books just make me smile so hard and this one was no different. The observations, irony, Cammie’s personality, it all just clicks really well for me. Unfortunately, in this book, Cammie is a bit more pigheaded than usual. She More...

Cameron (Cammie) Morgan and the girls from The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women are back . As we know from the first two books. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is really a school to teach spy's . But this time one of the girls is in danger .

The book starts off with Cammie visiting her roommate Macey in Boston. she's there to watch Macey's father accept a nomination for vice president of the United States. Before they can see this happen . Cammie and Macey soon fin More...

As soon as I put down Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (CMHaHtS) I immediately picked up Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (DJaGbHC)! As I did with CMHaHtS I couldn't put DJaGbHC down. I ended up staying up to the early hours of the morning (on a work night eeek) as I needed to find out what would happen.

The time the focus is on Macey and her fathers political career. It starts with a BANG and ends with a WHAT?!!?! :-O I was totally shocked at the end.

Once again Cammie, Macey, Bex and Liz are tota More...

This 3rd book in the Gallagher Girls series was just as much fun -- and as well-written -- as the first one. Cammy Morgan, 16-year-old daughter of two spies and a student at the exclusive Gallagher Academy just outside Washington D.C., is the central character in this series. After her father's death in some foreign country about four years ago, her mother "retired" from active service and became the headmistress at the Gallagher Academy, ostensibly a snooty school for spoiled rich girls, but ac More...

* Hardcover: 272 pages
* Publisher: Hyperion Books; 1st edition (June 9, 2009)
* ISBN-10: 1423116380
* Author: Ally Carter
* Cover art: I like it.
* Over all rating: **** out of 5 stars
* Obtained: My local library

Don't Judge a girl by her cover by Ally Carter

Reviewed by Moirae the fates book reviews.



When Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomina More...

I enjoyed the first Gallagher Girls book, but did feel there were certain problems with the premise, as explained in my review of I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU. CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY was likewise enjoyable but not as awesome as I hoped. But I definitely enjoyed DON'T JUDGE A GIRL BY HER COVER, as I can tell the girls are growing up. (Although Bex and Liz need to get some of their own experiences in with boys or they'll never grow up to be true femme fatales.)

Josh More...

I really enjoy this series. Though I think originally it was only to be a stand alone. The first book is so different in tone from the rest of the series. And it has no Zach, who in my opinion is far superior from Josh. I have to say though, I really enjoy this series evolution from cutsey to a genuine espionage mystery. The characters are pretty fleshed out. Cammie is a likable protagonist with flaws and the same can be said about the rest of the cast. The plot is pretty tightly woven, even in More...

Cammie and her fellow Gallagher Girls are back sleuthing, spying, sneaking, snarking and trying to figure life out. Cammie stops in Washington D. C. to spend some time with her roommate, Macey McHenry who's father is on the campaign trail, running for Vice President of the U.S. While she is there, she unwittingly foils a kidnapping plot, but not without damage, both physical and mental. She realizes that the life she is choosing to live is scary and real not just a game or a test. She continues More...

Are there really schools out there that teach you espionage? If so, where can I apply? The whole idea behind Gallegher Academy is amazing. It is a boarding school that teaches young women how to be the deadliest spies in the world. Sure it would suck not having boys at your school, but I think I'd get over it after learning how to decapitate a man with a nail file. (Ok yuck, I could never do that...I'd make a horrible spy.)

In this third novel of the series we get to see a little bit more of Mace More...

*Potential spoilers for books 1 and 2 in the series*

I've been hooked on this contemporary, but not really realistic, series about Cammie and her friends at the Gallagher Academy, a school for future spies. Before I started this series, I had read Ally Carter's Heist Society and really enjoyed that book as well. While the Gallagher Girls books appeal more to perhaps a younger audience than Heist Society, the books are still fun and easy reads and I didn't feel like they were immature, which is ho More...

The third book in the Gallagher Girls series finds Cammie Morgan involved in a presidential campaign when her schoolmate Macey's father is running for vice president. When Cammie and Macey escape a kidnapping attempt, Cammie and the rest of the Gallagher Girls must protect Macey from those wishing to attack her. Old secrets are revealed, and the Cammie realizes Macey was not the intended target of the kidnapping...she was.

My thoughts: I bought book four in this series, and I decided to reread b More...

I really look forward to new books in this series. I'm a bit addicted to them if I'm honest and this was another fun installment.

When Cammie visits her friend Macey in Boston things don't exactly go to plan. Unless the plan was being ambushed! Or finding themselves part of an attempted kidnap they barely manage to escape. Desperately wanting to help keep their friend safe, Cammie, Liz and Bex use their spy skills to find the truth...

I really like how the author manages to give us a completely di More...