(Books 1-5 in the teen spy thriller series, The Specialists)This box set includes all five books in the bestselling, award winning, teen spy series, THE SPECIALISTS. With thousands of five star reviews on Goodreads, it’s pages full of intrigue, adventure, bad guys, fun gadgets, espionage, and romance!***Girl genius, GiGi, is in a lot of hot water. A whiz with computers, she agrees to help her … lot of hot water. A whiz with computers, she agrees to help her college RA, David, uncover some top-secret information. After all, she doesn’t have family or many friends and David has always been nice to her. It doesn’t hurt that he’s super cute and irresistible, too. All she has to do is hack into the government’s main computer system.
But a few hours later, her whole life changes. She is caught and taken in for questioning, only this isn’t your run-of-the-mill arrest. Rather than serve a juvenile detention sentence, she accepts the option to change her name and enlist in a secret government spy agency that trains orphaned teens to go undercover.
As if that wasn’t overwhelming enough, she discovers that David works for this agency as well! And before she even begins to understand what is going on, she’s sent on her first mission as an undercover model. And who better to partner with than David himself! But can she pull this off, or will she lose the only family she’s come to know?
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5 Stars! “Who knew the spy game could be so much fun!” ~Cindy, Librarian
5 Stars! “Filled with spies, family bonding, smart young people, lingering romance, and laugh out loud funny moments.” ~Kelsey, Goodreads Reviewer
5 Stars! “Awesome and I mean for real!” ~April, Amazon Reviewer
5 Stars! “Teen spies, romance, and espionage. It doesn’t get any better!” ~Elizabeth, English Teacher
5 Stars! “Fans of Ally Carter and will LOVE these books!” ~Mona Raye, Goodreads Reviewer
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Don’t miss all the books the teen spy series:
Model Spy
Down To The Wire
The Winning Element
Native Tongue
Fight To The Finish
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The stories kept my interest, well written, compelling.
Where to begin? I LOVED this series by Author Shannon Greenland. Once I received the boxed set, I don’t think I stopped reading until forced. I spent a handful of days tearing through the pages, laughing, sniffing, and absolutely LOVING this series!!!
It had a wonderful plot, great research, and believable characters. The worlds this author built in every single one of her five books are AMAZING!!! I felt as if I was along on every adventure. I could see what they saw and hear what they heard. The scenery was different for every book and allowed me to mentally take a short vacation with The Specialists. However, it was always nice to get home to their base, where I could picture them all making fitting in and creating a family unit there.
Did I mention that I LOVE this series?!
I LOVED the main character Kelly, aka GiGi. She is funny, intelligent, and easy to like. Her flaws make her personable and loveable. The fact that she is a computer whiz is icing on the cake. She can crack any code, and even though I haven’t a clue what she’s talking about, I enjoy her recitations whenever she gets nervous or is trying to create something new. GiGi is brilliant, fun, and caring. I love her interaction with all of the characters and how their stories develop together.
All of the characters are brilliant! They work well together, and their personalities and backgrounds are so diverse. It is fabulous how the author describes them, shows their strengths and weaknesses throughout the books, and brings them together as top-notch spies who ultimately end up a family. Each one makes every story even better. They all get their turn in the spotlight, and it’s magical.
I’m addicted to this series now, and I wish there were more than five books!!! This story has everything you need if you love: YA, spies, secret organizations, were a fan of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys or any other crime-fighting books, journies to foreign places, bad guys getting taken down, humor, romance, and the truth that family is more than just blood.
Although I would have loved a little more to the ending, I felt it was wrapped up a little quickly in book five, this is a series I will happily reread in the future!!!
If you couldn’t tell, I love this series. It’s been a while since I’ve been this obsessed with a series, and I’m not ashamed, lol. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone for a fresh, entertaining, comedic, thoroughly enjoyable read!!!
*In all fairness, I had the cool opportunity to get a free copy of The Specialists: The Complete Series boxed set to do a review. This in no way persuaded my review. This series is really just freakin’ awesome. Thanks, Author Shannon Greenland for giving me the chance to read your complete series!!!
Wait. Did I mention I LOVE this series?! 😉
I downloaded Shannon Greenland’s The Specialists: The Complete Teen Spy Thriller Series on something of a whim. The “teen spy” part was not something that would typically excite me but the blurb looked like fun so I figured “why not”. I am glad that I took the chance. Kelly James, aka Genius Girl, aka GiGi and the gang have an amazing set of adventures (and a bit of romance) in these volumes as the Specialists become as much a family as an elite unit. Truly well written and just plain fun. Wonderful stuff. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises – the boxset definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the boxset is most definitely one to read, it is easy to highly recommend.