A teen assassin gets her toughest mission yet - undercover as a normal high school student. Emma Garthright is 16 and a psychopath, tested after attempting to kill her brother as a child, she goes to a boarding school that claims to help children like Emma be better, when in reality they’re being trained to be deadly assassins. One of the top of her class, Emma’s newest mission will test all of her skills - she’s to go undercover at her hometown highschool and infiltrate the Model UN team. Emma is a bluntly humorous narrator, think of a young Deadpool as she breaks the fourth wall and addresses the reader while telling her story as it happens. As the stakes increase we’re taken out of the loop a little bit to build tension, unsure of whether Emma will complete her mission, or get out safely. Like a young Villanelle, although she can be manipulative and sometimes downright cruel, I couldn’t help but like her. Although I did maybe hope that Susie’s empathy coaching would rub off a little bit. ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Girl’ is twisty, action-packed and fun to read. I loved the badass, capable female main character and was thrilled that the ending seemed to hint at more stories to come.
Diagnosed as a psychopath as a child and trained as an assassin by the CIA, Emma Garthright is no ordinary teenager. But now Emma faces the one mission she isn’t prepared for—making friends at an ordinary high school. Sixteen-year-old Emma has spent most of her life at the remote Early Institute, a boarding school operating under the guise of helping children like Emma become better people. But the Early Institute’s altruistic facade hides a darker motive—secretly turning its students into the deadliest assassins the world has ever seen. Emma’s newest mission requires her to go undercover at her hometown high school, where to succeed she must do the seemingly impossible—win the trust of the school’s most virtuous student, Susie Robinson, by truly becoming a better person and helping Susie gain the affections of her crush, Brayden. But is Emma capable of changing? And why does Brayden seem more interested in her than in Susie? As her new life starts to interfere with her mission, and it becomes clear just how dangerous the Early Institute really is, Emma will have to call on all her considerable skills to save her friendship with Susie while keeping them both alive.
