Reading Response

8/30  90 min   9/3  150 min    240 mins   316 pgs.

            I continued reading the Cherub series over the hurricane and this one was another page turner called The Killing. The author, Robert Muchamore, always makes a book exciting to read by not having too much down time in the plot. I always love to read his books. This mission started out as a small one for James and the rest of the Cherub crew, but eventually developed into much more than the simple intelligence mission that it started out as. James and his partner Dave discover that the criminal that they're investigating is involved in a six digit robbery and that one of the local cops killed an eighteen year old boy. The plot develops for a while in the beginning and then quickly escalades into a sting operation that is both dangerous and very exciting for the reader.

            Another thing that I really liked about this book, and all the Cherub books for that matter, was that the author sets his books in Europe and I think it is sometimes particularly amusing how even in dialogue you can tell that someone is speaking in a British accent. Some of the expressions that the characters use I just find funny. This story had more to it than just the mission itself. James becomes an outcast at the cherub campus near the beginning of the story and that added another level to this book that some of the others have lacked. It made the mission interesting because James basically used this mission as time to forget about that. I thought that it made the story line that much better than some of the other installments. Overall, I really enjoyed this book.