I loved getting to know Embassy Row and the other countries and inhabitants along the street. Some interactions are definitely more strained than others, and one wrong move could very well cause an international crisis. This book is set the American Embassy in a nonexistent country in European, though all the foreign Embassies surrounding the American Embassy are real - as are their relationships with each other. I can't believe I'm going to have to wait so long for more. I definitely did not see those last chapters coming! One of the many things I love about All Fall Down is how excited I am for what is to come in the future.

While the first half of the story was slower paced, containing world building and set-up about Grace and her history, Embassy Row and it's inhabitants, the second half exploded into the rapid-fire thriller I was expecting, especially in the final quarter. In the letter I received with the ARC of All Fall Down, author Ally Carter calls her latest a 'YA thriller set in a foreign embassy.' Well that grabbed me immediately, and as expected, this is an exciting beginning to what I'm already certain is going to be a favorite series. But Embassy Row is also where her mother grew up, and Grace is surrounded by her mother's memory, and her own growing determination to find her mother's killer. With her soldier father deployed in the Middle East and her brother at West Point, Grace is back living in Embassy Row with her Grandfather, the most important US Ambassador to Europe. Grace know's she's not crazy, because she was there. Except Grace is certain her mom's death was not an accident at all, but murder. 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.Įveryone will tell you that Grace's mother died three years ago in a tragic accident. Now, at age sixteen, she's come back to stay - in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death. 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. Grace can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. (TY, Scholastic!)įind: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | The Book Depository

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