YMMV / Spy High

• Cliché Storm: The series tends to fall into a lot of tropes and cliches. Villains tend to be Large Ham Obviously Evil types with takeover the world plans. There's decent amounts of Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure. Plenty of spy one-liners both good and bad. All Asians Know Martial Arts. The list goes on.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty Corporal Keene is a decent supporting character, especially when he goes out into the field.
  • Of the team members, Jen is surprisingly iconic for being an Action Girl with a Dark and Troubled Past despite only being in three (or technically four) of the twelve books.
• First Installment Wins: The first two books are considered to be the best ones by some fans.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There are fans not at all happy with the death of Jennifer in general, and the fact that it happened only halfway through her promising Day in the Limelight in particular.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It's a very YA series, with plenty of brutal deaths and sexuality references, but the title can make it sound lighter than it is, and when the first book came out, it found its way into some elementary school book fairs.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The plot of Edward Red seems to mimic the very real contemporary problem Britain has over what distance they should maintain, if any, from the rest of Europe, as well as the issue of becoming a part of the global European currency.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: In the plot of Jake Black, the Big Bad's plan is to merge an alternate, "chaos" dimension with ours, causing the world to be submerged in darkness. The final battle between him and Jake takes place on a bridge that extends over the top of this surging darkness Bearing in mind that the entire plot of the story so far has revolved around whether or not Jake would finally descend into "darkness" and kill the villain...yeah.