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Undercover Girl #5
Twisted
Book by Harris, Christine
130 pages, Paperback
First published May 10, 2007
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Christine Harris
89 books30 followersChristine Harris is an Australian writer of children's and young-adult with works both in speculative fiction and historical fiction.
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January 24, 2020
I found these books when I was about twelve years old, in the tiny little 'library' of my school's after-school programme. It only contained books 2 and 4 and I read those two books over and over again because I adored the concept and the plot and couldn't get enough of it, even though I knew I was missing parts. Now about ten years later, I hunted this series down again because I had a job and money and actually had the means to finally read this series from beginning to end.
All in all, the premise is great; Harris takes the classic 'secret agent' sci-fi concept and does it justice. Granger is downright terrifying at his core. He and Jesse are supposedly on the same side, but as you progress through the books the more you realise--and the more Jesse herself realises--that he is her enemy. They work for the same organisation, but Granger most definitely does not care about Jesse even a little bit. He'll turn on her the second she becomes a threat to C2 or his own interests. I love the dimension and grey morality that was given to the characters, especially Prov and even Granger, to some degree. I love that Tamarind stayed with C2 and was allowed to be friends with Jesse, that she wasn't immediately locked away in a lab somewhere and relentlessly experimented on, and that she wasn't a Nimbus double-agent. Liam is by far my favourite character and I love his relationship with Jesse and how much he genuinely cares about her even though he may not show it outright, especially because he's been with C2 long enough to know that caring is dangerous.
Harris was a newer writer at the time and it shows; the prose is awkward in places and the pacing is very fast, the chapters very short. We were still given, imo largely believable, character development, it was just a tiny bit rushed. All I'm really saying is that I wish the books had been longer, that there had been more meat on the bones of the plot. On the other hand, though, fitting so much action into such short books can't be an easy feat. I feel like we should've been given at least one book before Secrets, to give us a chance to meet Rohan and get a sense of his relationship with Jesse and Jai, as well as get attached to him, before he went missing. That's what I was expecting when I first started reading the first book after having already read the second one.
I wish we'd gotten to focus more on Jai, perhaps gotten to learn more about his twin as well; we already had both Rohan and Jesse meet their twins, and the secondary story arc from books 1-3 was about Rohan and Jesse's search for him.
Nimbus is an intriguing 'other side of the coin' so to speak; an organisation that C2 claims to be evil and its exact opposite, yet which, in essence, is no different. I wish we'd gotten the chance to see Nimbus become a more involved antagonist.
Before I looked up the series, I had no idea that there was a fifth book. I thought the fourth book wrapped things up nicely; Jesse would get to learn about her family, and there was still enough left to the imagination that her story wasn't over over. I loved the last book, though either I'm exceptionally thick or Devlin's identity wasn't explained/alluded to enough at all, because I have absolutely no blessed clue who he's supposed to be, how he knows who Jesse is, why he wants to talk to her, or what he could have possibly written in that e-mail.
All in all, this is one of my favourite lesser-known book series and it doesn't get nearly as much recognition as I wish it did. I would (and have) read them again, and I would (and already have) recommend them to others.
--Bishop
All in all, the premise is great; Harris takes the classic 'secret agent' sci-fi concept and does it justice. Granger is downright terrifying at his core. He and Jesse are supposedly on the same side, but as you progress through the books the more you realise--and the more Jesse herself realises--that he is her enemy. They work for the same organisation, but Granger most definitely does not care about Jesse even a little bit. He'll turn on her the second she becomes a threat to C2 or his own interests. I love the dimension and grey morality that was given to the characters, especially Prov and even Granger, to some degree. I love that Tamarind stayed with C2 and was allowed to be friends with Jesse, that she wasn't immediately locked away in a lab somewhere and relentlessly experimented on, and that she wasn't a Nimbus double-agent. Liam is by far my favourite character and I love his relationship with Jesse and how much he genuinely cares about her even though he may not show it outright, especially because he's been with C2 long enough to know that caring is dangerous.
Harris was a newer writer at the time and it shows; the prose is awkward in places and the pacing is very fast, the chapters very short. We were still given, imo largely believable, character development, it was just a tiny bit rushed. All I'm really saying is that I wish the books had been longer, that there had been more meat on the bones of the plot. On the other hand, though, fitting so much action into such short books can't be an easy feat. I feel like we should've been given at least one book before Secrets, to give us a chance to meet Rohan and get a sense of his relationship with Jesse and Jai, as well as get attached to him, before he went missing. That's what I was expecting when I first started reading the first book after having already read the second one.
I wish we'd gotten to focus more on Jai, perhaps gotten to learn more about his twin as well; we already had both Rohan and Jesse meet their twins, and the secondary story arc from books 1-3 was about Rohan and Jesse's search for him.
Nimbus is an intriguing 'other side of the coin' so to speak; an organisation that C2 claims to be evil and its exact opposite, yet which, in essence, is no different. I wish we'd gotten the chance to see Nimbus become a more involved antagonist.
Before I looked up the series, I had no idea that there was a fifth book. I thought the fourth book wrapped things up nicely; Jesse would get to learn about her family, and there was still enough left to the imagination that her story wasn't over over. I loved the last book, though either I'm exceptionally thick or Devlin's identity wasn't explained/alluded to enough at all, because I have absolutely no blessed clue who he's supposed to be, how he knows who Jesse is, why he wants to talk to her, or what he could have possibly written in that e-mail.
All in all, this is one of my favourite lesser-known book series and it doesn't get nearly as much recognition as I wish it did. I would (and have) read them again, and I would (and already have) recommend them to others.
--Bishop
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July 25, 2025
This was a crazy twist! I was a little disappointed in the ending. Feels like a cliffhanger waiting to be completed in the series. Though I am glad that Jesse learned more of who she really is and how to control some of her situation.
January 2, 2021
No aguardo de uma continuação pfv dona autora nunca te pedi nada
January 13, 2021
Good book. Just way too many typos on my copy. A little distracting from the storyline but it still made sense. Was hoping for a better experience.
November 9, 2007
read 09.21.07
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