“I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you”  by Ally Carter

A Girls’ Book for boys

The novel ''I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you'' was written by Ally Carter and published in April 2006. It's about a love story between a girl and a boy and the difficulties when you want to meet somebody but you are not allowed to.

Cammie Morgan attends the Gallagher Academy for exceptional young women. It is not easy to be one of these Girls as you have to learn 14 languages and you have to know how to kill a man with uncooked spaghetti, and how to hack secret computer systems of foreign countries, just to name a few things. But one day at a training mission at night, Cam falls in love with Josh who is not in the Academy, and I can tell you, it is not easy to love somebody and meet that person if you are a Gallagher Girl. Their love story could have turned out to be really romantic but the rules are tough and …  

But read the book if you want to know more.

Friendship is one of the main topics in the novel and its message is that one should always be proud of his friends because they can be of great help in difficult situations.

The book is funny but also sad and it has an interesting plot. And actually it’s a real girl’s book. But don’t get me wrong. It can also be of great interest to boys because they can see why girls act the way they act and what’s on their minds when they have fallen in love with a boy.

The novel’s English is not very easy to understand which is why I’d recommend it to readers aged 15 or older.

Max (14)