A review by slc333
Hiding Lies by Julie Cross

4.0

A fun fast paced teen spy/con story featuring former con artist Ellie and her teen spy boyfriend Miles. In this one Ellie agrees to go undercover for the FBI once more in order to catch her con man father while on a school trip to NYC in return for freeing her mother from prison. Miles is floating around the edges of her family's con but is not being forthcoming about his real agenda. And then there is the consequences from their previous foray in to crime solving from the last book where they caught a killer and exposed a group of rogue gvt assassins who may or may not want revenge. I was annoyed about Miles avoidance tactics and Ellie's tendancy to let it slide but she finally gets the whole story after figuring out most of it herself - gotta love that twisty busy mid of hers. And I totally understood her reaction. Where this one suffers most in comparison to the first book is the secondary characters. I missed Harper & Aidan and their individual relationships with Ellie. And even tho they were nominally in it I missed the Holden Prep crew. This time around they were mostly just names or one dimensional props to move Ellie's story along unlike in the first book when they were characters in their own right and I wanted to know more about them.