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A review by reader_fictions
Code Name Cassandra by Meg Cabot
3.0
The series improves with Code Name Cassandra, but there are still problems courtesy of its age. Jess is working as a camp counselor at a music camp (dear god, who would ever hire Jess to be responsible for children???). Put in charge of boys due to a dearth of male counselors, Jess spends the weeks being called a lesbian by the campers because she has short hair. She, too, at the end uses “lesbian” as an insult to the female FBI Agent who follows her around. That shit ain’t cool. There’s also an instance or two of the r-word.
Setting that aside, the plot hangs together a bit together than in book one. This series has some conceptual flaws, like how it will forever be impossible to believe that anyone buys Jess’ really shallow pretense of not having her powers anymore, but at least no one breaks into a military facility. The summer camp focus sets the series much more solidly in the realm of the realistically teen. There are two plots here that end up converging in an ending more silly than scary.
These books work a lot better as comedies than as paranormal mysteries, but it’s hard to say sometimes which aspects are tongue-in-cheek and which aren’t. Cabot got a lot better at mysteries later, with Heather Wells.
Setting that aside, the plot hangs together a bit together than in book one. This series has some conceptual flaws, like how it will forever be impossible to believe that anyone buys Jess’ really shallow pretense of not having her powers anymore, but at least no one breaks into a military facility. The summer camp focus sets the series much more solidly in the realm of the realistically teen. There are two plots here that end up converging in an ending more silly than scary.
These books work a lot better as comedies than as paranormal mysteries, but it’s hard to say sometimes which aspects are tongue-in-cheek and which aren’t. Cabot got a lot better at mysteries later, with Heather Wells.