The story: Grace knows her mother died three years ago--she was there, and saw it all. What no one else wants to believe is the other thing Grace saw: a scar-faced man pulling the trigger, firing the shot that killed her mother. It's bad enough that Grace has been sent back to live with her grandfather, the American ambassador to Adria--but what's even worse is that the scar-faced man is here too...and he's getting ready to kill again. If everyone thinks she's crazy, how will she be able to stop someone else from becoming his target?
June Cleaver's ratings: Language PG; Violence PG-13; Sexual content PG; Nudity G; Substance abuse PG; magic & the occult G; GLBT content G; adult themes (PTSD, murder) PG-13; overall rating PG-13.
Liz's comments: Ally Carter's work gets a bit darker with her first novel in the Embassy Row series, but readers who liked The Gallagher Girls and the Heist Society books will be willing to overlook that, and Grace as a rather unreliable narrator. My biggest complaint is that while Grace solves the initial mystery of her mother's murder, the ending feels rushed and rest of the book ends up seeming to have been a set-up for later books, with a bunch of loose ends pretending to be a cliff-hanger. :P
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