Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Covert Assignment by Missy Maciassa hosted by Xpresso Book Tours. You can check out the full schedule and the rest of the tour here!
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Review
Something attracted me to this book and I think I just really like the whole idea of espionage. Then I got excited that it was new adult and I think it's great to see NA books start branching from your typical contemporary romance. (Can we get some NA spies? Anyone?) So I was really excited for this book and it was a lot of fun to read.
Elle is a very smart girl with a bright future, which is how she gets wrapped up with the CIA. She puts a lot of pressure on herself, she gets a lot of pressure from her family and I think she excels well under all that's asked of her. But even with all of her achievements she's still just trying to figure out her future. And that's what makes her totally relatable. She has a few paths and she has to make a decision between what she'd planned and what seems like a less safe road.
I wanted to punch her ex-dude more than once through the book, but Preston more than makes up for him. Preston was great, but honestly, the romance wasn't the prominent story-line in the book. Preston kind of blew into Elle's life and shook things up, but his role in her life fades pretty quickly as her role in this CIA-thing turns into more. Also- her friends play an important role in her story - and not just in side-kick ways. I always like when books place importance on friendship.
I have some minor complaints about the book - like an occasionally shaky voice and the fact that the villain or villains are kind of faceless - but for the most part I just had so much fun while I was reading. I like the idea that you can be on one path and then all of a sudden you're on a different, exciting one - even better when you get there of your own merit. If you like NA and you want something that deviates from the typical - Covert Assignment is a good one!
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About the Book
Covert Assignment by Missy Marciassa
Publication date: December 2nd 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Covert Assignment is a New Adult, Coming of Age Novel with a strong romantic element.
Elle is ready for graduation and full-fledged adulthood: no more living like the leftover of her parent’s divorce. She’s about to graduate with her degree in Information Science (the 21st century term for Library Science) and has a ten-year plan as well-designed as any model for analyzing metadata: earn her JD/MBA, enjoy a couple of years as a single professional, then marry her college sweetheart, Adam, and start her own family.
Yet Elle feels like she returned to an alternate universe her final semester. There are pictures of Adam with a classmate who must be surgically enhanced, but he insists he wants Elle. CIA recruiters show up on campus, and they aren’t just interested in recruiting Elle for future employment: turns out she’s already working for them since they’re funding her thesis. Hot operative Preston Raddick is tasked to work with her. Preston isn’t just hot: he’s hot for Elle, but is he offering happy ever after or happy for right now? A fling with Preston could be the beginning of a new life plan, which is exciting and scary, especially with espionage thrown in. Elle needs a predictive model to tell her which decisions have the greater likelihood for happiness…
Covert Assignment is about the unexpected turns life can take when making “adult” decisions.
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About the Author
Missy Marciassa loved getting lost in novels from the time she could read, so it’s no surprise she wanted to write. Her very first “novels” were re-writing the books she read to get the endings she wanted in second grade. Missy continued to read and write through grade school and high school.
After becoming rather disillusioned with fiction after writing literary criticism as an English major in college, however, Missy focused on her enjoyment of learning about people and studied psychology. Reading fiction fell to the wayside with all the reading and writing required for college and graduate school, but once Missy became a doctoral candidate, she rediscovered her love of fiction. Then she started getting the urge to write, an urge that wouldn’t go away (she refuses to diagnose it as a compulsion). Covert Assignment is the end result of that urge.
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Giveaway
