Model Spy by Shannon Greenland

Model Spy (The Specialists) by Shannon Greenland
Speak (May 10, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0142408492
ISBN-13: 978-0142408490
205 pages
Ages 10 +
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My Rating: 3/5
Summary from GoodReads: Teen genius Kelly James is in a lot of hot water. A whiz with computers, she agreed to help her college RA, David, uncover some top-secret information. After all, she doesn't have many friends and David has always been nice to her. It doesn't hurt that he's super cute and irresistible, too. All she has to do is hack into the government's main computer system. But a few hours later, her whole life changes. She is caught and taken in for questioning, only this isn't your run-of-the-mill arrest. Rather than serve a juvenile detention sentence, she accepts the option to change her name and enlist in a secret government spy agency that trains teen agents to go undercover. As if that wasn't overwhelming enough, she discovers that David works for this agency as well! And before she even begins to understand what is going on, she's sent on her first mission as an undercover model. And who better to partner with than David himself!
The Verdict: This book is exactly what you think of when you think of a Disney Channel Movie. Quick, clean, and not entirely plausible. While I liked the overall plot, the writing just wasn't that good. It was very simple and made Gigi sound more like a 12yo than a 16yo. And a very "special snowflake" 12yo who is hard to relate to at that.
I enjoyed that it was fast-paced so the story never dragged. But it was hard for me to read some pages since there was a big formatting error in the ARC Kindle format where whole sentences had no spaces so you had to visually decipher the words.
It wasn't the worst book ever though, and as a  light-hearted, I enjoyed it :)

I received a free review copy of this book from the publishers but the opinions expressed here are my own.