NOT IF I SAVE YOU FIRST

Maddy, the daughter of a Secret Service agent, and the president's son, Logan, battle Russian assassins and the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness in this high-stakes thriller. Narrator Brittany Pressley smoothly matches the tone of the story, which bounces rapidly between teen angst and life-or-death combat. She excels at voicing teenage Maddy, using a heavy Valley Girl cadence when Maddy is relying on the assassins to underestimate her and dropping it almost entirely when Maddy draws on her survival skills to stay alive and to save Logan. Listeners who like smart, snarky teen protagonists and a healthy dose of chaste romance with their action will enjoy this stand-alone from young adult mainstay Ally Carter, who wrote The Gallagher Girls series. E.C. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2018]