Embassy Row #3: Take the Key and Lock Her Up | 
pickHas Ally Carter ever gotten darker in a book? So many double-crosses, so much adventure, but also an ending everyone deserves, for good or for bad. I wish Grace had had a little more formal mental health support, but damn, I'm ultimately not complaining. #reread #yalit #yathriller
pickI read all three books yesterday and as always, Ally Carter does a magnificent job. 10 out of 10 recommended.
Anyone want a baby? Mine is up for sale. I've had a migraine for most of the day, and she has been difficult for quite a few days. Including now. Especially now. She was sitting straight up when I got home for work and started screaming. If I do something she doesn't like, she screams again. I have to try to keep quiet and make her be quiet so my parents can sleep, and I'm about at my wits end. She won't go to sleep and it's not cute.
pickThis book was amazing! I love Ally Carter so much! I can't wait to see what she does next!
This has been waiting for me since Christmas, but I've been putting it off for a myriad of reasons: first, the Great Mono Debacle, and then, because I just don't want to end my journey with this series. I love Grace, and everyone else on Embassy Row. But I also NEED to know what happens, so here we go. 💖👑 #allycarter #embassyrow #takethekeyandlockherup
pickLiked this one a lot more than book 2! Grace is still a little annoyingly mentally unstable, but at least there's a plot! A satisfying end.
#audiocleaning! Scrubbing out my fridge, and putting away all the food from Costco. Woot woot, almost done!
The heroine's psychological state is getting a bit old (she's suffering from a PTSD-like condition and then general teenage idiocy...) but on to book three! Can't leave a trilogy unfinished. 😜 And I love the Adrian setting.
pickThis was a fast read. I'll admit that when I picked up the first in the trilogy I was expecting more of a YA political thriller and not the royal disparity that came later. This final book wrapped up all the story lines well and it was a solid read. My only complaint is that the trilogy wasn't anything new. It's another "girl is chosen one, peril ensues, mystery guy loves her, but it all works out in the end" story. So a good read, but typical.
Sometimes I really hate common sense. That‘s why I go to such great lengths to avoid it.
I‘m the lost freaking princess of Adria, and I‘m not going to take it anymore.
“It‘s not your fault,” I say, because it‘s what people always say to me, even though it‘s never true and it never helps. I say it again and again. “It‘s not your fault.”
There are minutes –seconds –when the whole world can change and your life will forever more be marked before and after.
This is supposed to be some kind of move in the chess game of my life. But I‘m just a pawn who has already been sacrificed. I don‘t know how to tell them that the game is over.
I have no one but myself to blame. So I blame everyone.
My nerves are like live wires. My insulation is all gone, and it doesn‘t take much to make sparks.
“Are you OK?” But no one really wants the honest answer to that question,
the bridge getting smaller and smaller, almost like it‘s burning from both ends. I‘ve burned bridges before; I should know what it feels like.
I may be crazy, but I‘m not insane
I wish I could tell them that they‘re wrong. But they‘re not. And I hate that most of all.
In the age-old war between fight and flight, I‘m Team Flight.
so-soThis series started to be a little much. Too much in the main character's head, too much crazy, too many panic attacks and overall I just wanted it to be over. I hope they get a therapist for this girl cause this series is full of WTF moments that would send me off the deep end. I also liked every character more than our MC - I think there's something about being too much in one character's head.
panMy review uses a quote from the book itself- "I should find my room, my bed. I should do something to make this right, but I just look out the big windows, wishing I could go back in time." And never have read it. Sorry, Allie Carter, I still love your other series.
I don't know what to read next...#bookishproblems
so-soFinished the last 50 pages in print. I really like Carter, but I spent most of this book yelling "oh my god Grace shut up." I wouldn't mind a follow up series just following the gang in school and maybe handling international incidents though.
Grace is crying again and I miss Noah
It's a great day when you walk into work and see someone has loaned you a good book! #happyday #books4me #allycarter #bringontheweekend
so-soWhile I usually love and devour Carter's series, I didn't find this one (the book or series) as appealing as usual. Something about the writing and word choice made the main character seem predictable and juvenile which was frustrating. It also didn't give me the same emotional connection of "all the feels" that the others have given me. Maybe it is because there was such a gap in between books and that took away from my connection to it.
"I thought I'd get a happy ending.
Those are the only endings anyone ever takes about, after all. What the world doesn't tell you — what you don't see in the movies and in books and on TV — is that not everybody gets one. And no one ever thinks they're going to be the very unlucky exception to the rule."
I have partnered with @ireadYA (on instagram) to celebrate the complete #EmbassyRow series by Ally Carter! Book 3: Take the Key and the Lock Her Up released December 27!
🌎A little bit about the series: 🌎
The granddaughter of a powerful ambassador comes to Embassy Row to solve the mystery of her mother‘s death, and in the process uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions.
Books I got for Christmas!
This is super late but I didn't open gifts from my parents until Sunday due to work schedules/being sick. My mom came through with the Ally Carter's pre-order and I can't wait to read the next installment. Eligible is a book she and I had been talking about a couple of months ago since we are both Jane Austen fans. Can't wait to read these!
Finally have my hands on the final book in the Embassy Row trilogy! What I love about Ally Carter is that her books are fun for all ages, but extra perfect for tweens who are itching to get into YA and older plot lines, but aren't ready for heavy romance and language. Carter focuses on mystery and action over romance and I'm a huge huge fan of that!
pickI feel emotionally devastated and compromised, but in the best way. Ally Carter more than delivers in the conclusion on Embassy Row and I'm going to love adore Alexei until the end of time. He's such a perfect #bookboyfriend. 😍
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#YALit
pickI loved this final installment in the Embassy Row series. I am a huge fan of Ally Carters books. She never disappoints. And this cover is beautiful!
