I loved A GIRL NAMED DIGIT. With a tough-as-nails (but totally girlie) heroine, a la early Buffy, a sexy secret agent, and plenty of villains to go around, Annabel Monaghan‘s first novel is pretty much unputdownable.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2012.
Farrah — or Digit, as she used to be called, due to her prodigious talent for math — has been hiding her skills from her BFFs. Airheaded as they may be, they’re her girls, and she’d hate to have them reject her if they found out that she had perfect test scores (hidden under lock and key by the school) and early acceptance to MIT. Only her family knows that she’s Digit, long having shed the nickname that made her an outcast at her last school. But when Farrah unlocks a secret terrorist code while watching TV, she storms into the FBI to let them know she’s onto the bad guys. There’s one big hitch, though: the FBI thinks she’s nuts.
Of course, it’s not long before they figure out that Farrah is onto something, and they put her in hiding with a very young agent, John, who has a lot to prove if he’s going to move up in the agency. Suddenly, both Farrah and John realize they’re in way over their heads, and they’ll have to travel cross-country to uncover a plot even more sinister than they could have imagined.
A fun, Alias-esque thrill-ride, A GIRL MAKE DIGIT makes a fun summer read for girls who want a some fast-paced action with their romance…and a little romance with their explosion scenes. Props to Annabel Monaghan for making it happen!
