The story is fun and whimsical, the plot hits all the notes of teen action adventures, and it was a solid read overall, but it never quite hooked me.
There are middle grade books that also appeal to adult readers, but this one didn’t quite make the cut for me. It reminds me somewhat of the Mary Kate and Ashley books I read when I was younger, or the Lizzie McGuire movie, and will likely appeal to middle grade readers. The danger is lighthearted, the adults are almost unbelievably naive, and the mystery of the secret code and the diamonds are almost secondary to the romp around Paris. The first book in the series was written as a pitch for a Disney Channel show, and I can definitely imagine Daisy on the small screen. Daisy in Exile is very much targeted to the middle-grade crowd, and includes an entertaining series of hijinks as Daisy and her Parisian friends - a cat burglar from the wrong side of the tracks named Sief and a beautiful, stylish teen named Nina - race around the city and through the sewers to escape Russian spies. Twelve year old Daisy Tanenbaum is sent to live in Paris with her cool code breaker aunt, and gets embroiled in a spy caper involving the Queen’s Diamonds.
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