Covert Affairs is a fun spy book that is a bit like a more modern Totally Spies as three young adult girls go around the world rescuing heiresses, foiling cults and going gun to gun with the Brazilian mob. I found it very enjoyable and great light reading. And apparently this is an update because it was written in the 90s as Spy Girls.

Oh yeah, the neon, the crazy background, very 90s-esque and a bit of the 60s Batman show. But if the cover hadn’t dated them, apparently the inside would have. I haven’t read them, but other reviews mentioned the references to N’Sync and other 90s slang I wouldn’t have known. In the more modern volume, Covert Affairs, they switched it to Harry Styles and 1D so that’s why I never realized it was written earlier.

My thought was, should this be done with more books? If the story is solid, would changing a few references and republishing it again give it a new generation of fans. Or are there some things that are just too dated to try out?

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