Author Appreciation -- Ally Carter

Ally Carter

Full Name - Sarah Leigh Fogleman 
Pen Name - Ally Carter
Date of Birth - 1st January 1974
Birthplace - Oklahoma US
Genre - Chick-Lit / Young Adult
Website - X 
Twitter - OfficiallyAlly
Facebook - theallycarter
Instagram -  theallycarter
Goodreads - X
Wikipedia - X

Info

(from her own blog, since personally if the person has done it already you are never going to get better then the persons own telling) 

I was born and raised in Oklahoma.  My mother was a teacher and my father a farmer and rancher.  I have one older sister.
In high school, I was very active in a number of student organisations and graduated as co-valedictorian of my senior class.  I then attended Oklahoma State University and Cornell University and worked for several years in the agricultural industry before writing full-time.
My first novel, Cheating at Solitaire (Berkley) was published in 2005.  The following year I published the sequel to Solitaire, Learning to Play Gin.  There are no more plans for future books in that series at this time.
My first novel for young adults, I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You was published by Disney-Hyperion in April 2006.  Love You Kill You (as we call it) was followed by Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (October 2007), Don’t Judge a Girl By Her Cover (June 2009), Only the Good Spy Young (June 2010), Out of Sight, Out of Time (March 2012).  United We Spy (September 2013) is the sixth–and final–Gallagher Girls novel.
I am also the author of Heist Society (February 2010) and its sequels Uncommon Criminals (June 2011), and Perfect Scoundrels (February 2013).
In January 2013 I published the cross-over novella Double-Crossed that features characters from both the Gallagher Girls and Heist Society. It is available for free at spiesandthieves.com and wherever ebooks are sold.
ALL FALL DOWN is the first book in my new Embassy Row series. It was published on January 20, 2015 and will launch a new three-book series with Scholastic.
My books have been published in more than twenty countries and have appeared on best-seller lists from the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, and Bookscan. They have sold over two million copies in the United States.
I am one of the luckiest people in the world, and today, I’m able to do the job I wanted to do when I was a kid, and I am back living in Oklahoma.

 Published Books

Gallagher Girls 

I'd Tell You I Love You, But I'd Have To Kill You
Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy
Don't Judge A Girl by Her Cover
Only The Good Spy Young
Out of Sight, Out of Time
United We Spy

Heist Society

Heist Society
Uncommon Criminals
Perfect Scoundrels

Embassy Row

All Fall Down
See How They Run

Why I Love This Author

Carter's Books are so addicting and she writes such strong female heroines. Cammi, Kat and Grace are all role models in their own way they also have weaknesses that make them human not to mention they don't rely on the men in their life they kick-ass

The way Carter writes her books will have you smiling, laughing, crying, gasping and it will have you coming back for more and more. 

Ally is so interactive with her fans on social media and is such a nice person. A lot of people stop reading the Gallagher Girl series after the first book but i can promise you the series gets 100 times better after that and the same with the other series she has written as well. 

Current Reviews

All Fall Down 
See How They Run

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

All Fall Down - Ally Carter Spoiler Free Review

Title - All Fall Down
Series - Embassy Row
Author - Ally Carter
My Rating - 4.5 / 5
Goodreads - All Fall Down
ISBN - 1408334372 (ISBN13: 9781408334379)
My Copy - E-ARC from NetGalley
Release Date - 5th February 2015

Synopsis - Grace can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row.

Now, at age sixteen, she's come back to stay - in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if she and the world are to be saved

 

First let me start by saying any Ally Carter book for me is a must read, because she is an amazing author who write such wonderfully complex characters. I really enjoyed this book its a sort of mystery where our lead protagonist is trying to find the man who killed her mother. 

In the beginning of the book i was a bit apprehensive when we met the two male characters Alexei and then Noah i thought there was going to be a love triangle and it was going to take away from the book but like in Carters other books a love interest for Noah was put in there pretty quickly, but at the same time we didn't really get a sense for Alexei because we didn't really see him, but you can definitely see something happening in the future between them i have a weird feeling its going to a Romeo and Juliette where the families hate each other. 

So even though at time All Fall Down seemed like it was slow and just building the world and characters at the same time you had a lot of action, and scenes that make you want to go back and re read to see how you missed it. 

 This book is not a love story, its not a thriller its about a girl who wants the TRUTH and even if it starts World War Three she will get the answers shes looking for 

(Spoiler Review Coming Soon) 

September 2013 TBR !!!!!

For my September 2013 TBR . I plan to read 9 books.                    
{  * means Have read book }

1. United We Spy - Ally Carter
2. Delirium - Lauren Oliver
3. Girl Parts - John M. Cusick
4. The Perks Of Being A Wall Flower - StephenChbosky
5. Under The Never Sky - Veronica Rossi
6. Through The Ever Night - Veronica Rossi
7. Blood Red Road - Moira Young
                                                                         

If You Have Read Any Of These Book's Feel Free To Leave A Comment And Tell Me What You Though Of It.