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Since Seven Ancient Wonders in 2005, Matthew's novels have been the biggest selling new fiction title released in Australia for that year. The Fury is curious as to how Black intends to kill him, and while confident when confirming he can withstand a nuclear blast, he is less certain when Black questions if he can survive 10 such blasts.
The protagonist and her herd of superpowered children are total goody two shoes who somehow don't have the basic common sense to band together against the supervillain even though they know he is coming to destroy them. Every character in this book is a glaring stereotype, with two, in particular, being quite egregious and very uncomfortable. Following rejections from all the major publishers, Matthew self-published Contest in 1996, printing 1000 copies.Disheartened by the news of Red's defeat, Cassie laments that now only she and three of her siblings remain. In the end, there is a short interview with the author where he claims this novella was initially a movie script. Mostly this was just a confusing mess of flashbacks and short present-day scenes until around the 80-ish% mark when the main character finally does something. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Before the Fury can kill him, Gary - having scarcely managed to escape the Fury's seemingly fatal attack - arrives and knocks the Fury back.
Trey is confused; he is aware that Cobalt and Cobalt Green saved the passengers of the sinking Caribbean Star, but as Cassie reveals, the sinking was orchestrated by the Fury of Moscow to cover up the assassination of a former Secretary of Defense.The narrator did a decent job, even though the Russian accents were a bit much - but hearing the cringey, ridiculous plot read aloud was embarrassing. The question posed at the beginning is what happens when the US hero dies, and the answer is absolute nonsense. Cassie questioned Black's coldness, to which he responded that his idea is simple mathematics, and without their mother to deter the Fury, he will simply be an unstoppable force. The Jack West Jr stories and the Scarecrow adventures were fast paced and exciting, everything this book was not. At the Federal Building, CIA agent Shawna Eason is quick to bring Cassie to the interrogation room containing Argentov, who prattles on before Cassie urges him to speak his piece.