Spies Never Swoon by M. Taylor Christensen is the second book in his “Banana Girls” series. Each book can be read as a stand alone, although the Banana Girls all make an appearance in each book.

In Spies Never Swoon, Anna is the Banana Girl in the spotlight. Her job is to protect a prince! She’s up for the challenge, as she’s no stranger to sabotage, mysterious attacks, and high-speed car chases. However, she’s sworn to never get romantically involved on a case, so the prince’s constant flirting becomes a bigger challenge than the physical danger.

M. Taylor Christensen has a talent for telling exciting cozy mysteries from young adult womens’ perspectives. Spies Never Swoon may start out a bit more slowly than the first Banana Girls book, Spies Never Quit, but don’t stop turning those pages! It won’t be long until both Anna and the prince are running and hiding from danger, and the prince is testing Anna’s will of not getting romantically involved.

Spies Never Swoon by M. Taylor Christensen has lots of mystery, action, danger, and a little romance. It is a clean fiction novel that will have you on the edge of your seat while having your heart palpitating with the prince’s sweet flirtation. You’ll be cheering Anna on as she needs to use some smooth fight moves and some brilliant thinking and powers of deduction to figure out who is trying to cause harm to whom. You’ll probably even chuckle sometimes at the prince’s attempts to convince Anna to accept his romantic advances as she tries to resist.

If you like clean fiction, cozy mysteries, sweet romance, danger and action all rolled into one, you’ll want to read Spies Never Swoon by M. Taylor Christensen. I’m convinced you’ll probably also go back to your favorite place to purchase books to get more of the Banana Girls series as soon as you finish reading Spies Never Swoon.

M. Taylor Christensen is a talented writer. His Banana Girls series are fun, easy reads that keep the reader engaged and turning pages from start to finish. I have read the first two books of the series and will most likely read the remaining books in the Banana Girls series because I definitely enjoyed the first two.

I give Spies Never Swoon by M. Taylor Christensen four stars, only because it took longer than I would have liked for the danger and action to begin, but I was definitely too interested in the characters to put the book down and wasn’t disappointed after several chapters, when the danger and action kicked off and grew more intense and continued right up until the end.