Spy Goddess: Live and Let Shop

This is a really good and rather unusual book. First, the main character, Rachel Buchanan, is not the typical "nice girl." She's be in trouble with the law before and at the beginning of the book she gets involved in a joyriding mishap which lands her (again) in front of the judge.

She's given two choices; one, go to juvenile detention. Two, go to some school called the Blackthorn Academy. She ends up at the academy and tries to escape on her very first night. You see, the girl has a lot of attitude. Not really nasty-type attitude, just totally independent, I'll-do-what-I-want attitude.

She gets caught, of course. She also finds out that the curriculum in the school is somewhat different from what she's used to, including courses in criminal justice and physical ed including Tae Kwan Do.

She's also got a mystery as the head of the academy disappears, she discovers something like the bat-cave, her room-mate is psychic (somewhat), and the FBI is nosing around.

Then there is also the little matter of the guy who thinks he is the ancient god Mithras reincarnated, a stolen book, her own life being in danger, and some kind of reference to this evil guy thinking she's actually the reincarnation of a goddess.

It's a book filled with a lot of action and a lot of attitude and it all comes together very well. It was so good I went out and bought the sequel, which was still in hardback.

Another thing I like about the book is that it uses a lot of pop culture references which is how I tend to think, sometimes, like such-and-such an event is like a scene out of this-or-that movie.

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