The Recruit: Book 1 (CHERUB)

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The Recruit is the first book in the series, where James after moving to CHERUB is sent on a mission that turns out to be one of the biggest in CHERUB history. He must foil a major terrorist plan by the environmental terrorist group Help Earth, who plan to kill every major oil baron in the world, all at once.

It wasn't gripping or scary... we barely knew the bad guys. I like stories with detail. With the twists and turns that have you on the edge of your seat. This wasn't the case at all. There wasn't any guessing or suspects or covert stakeouts with close calls. James did practically nothing and it all sort of fell in his lap. Somehow I can't imagine social services approving of the way they are treated. I had particular difficulty with one of their trainers at the spy school, he is a nasty cruel bully, and I kept finding it difficult to accept that sort of behaviour would be accepted by a school. Think Snape and Umbridge only much worse.This book is a disgrace to the spy genre. It's not only implausible and stupid, but the writing is horrendous. As a young adult, I blame these kind of books for watering down the 'young adult' genre. As an aspiring writer, I had a good laugh about how awful Robert Muchamore's writing is, and have learned many lessons from reading what I could bear of this book.

Sakura Medal 2007 Winners". ASIJ. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012 . Retrieved 14 August 2014. The basic plot is that an eleven year old boy lives with his younger sister and morbidly obese mother, who runs a shoplifting ring. When his mother dies unexpectedly, he ends up in the system while his sister is sent to live with her father. James gets into all kinds of trouble while in a group home, to the point where he ends up being recruited by CHERUB, a division of MI5 where all the agents are between the ages of 10 and 17. We follow him through basic training and his first mission. My favourite quote - well, more than a quote really, "bit" then, was when Kerry outsmarted James to 'who was going to kill the snake' debate on their test mission, - "OK", James said. "You want snake for dinner. How do you plan to kill it?" Following the last book in the CHERUB series, it was revealed that a trilogy would be released starting from August 2011 that will focus on a new set of CHERUB agents centred upon Ryan Sharma and also involve an sixteen year old Lauren Adams. The first book will be called People's Republic.

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These books deal with a very rough and unprotected sub set of children. Most parents would feel very upset to think their children would ever have to grow up so fast. At 12 years old these kids are facing dangers most of us would never imagine, and they aren't mollycoddled, not at all. In fact there is very little caring and love ever shown towards them, and they look for it in each other. They start having relationships by the age of 12, which for most of us feels very underage, and a shame as we want kids to be kids, and this isn't an option for the CHERUB kids. They've been abandoned or abused already by parents, and society, and are now thrown into a world that is infinitely better for them in some ways, but incredibly harsh and brutal in others. The third "act" of the book involves James's first mission. While I did not hate this part, it definitely fell short of the first two acts, creating a sense of disappointment in the overall story development. Basically, James's actions help to thwart some terrible plot, and he is rewarded for such actions. The problem is, the actions are not terribly heroic, and there is a play for drama where there really is none; it felt cheap, and I know the author could have constructed a more "fun" mission for James to cut his teeth on. James Choke is one of the toughest kids in his school. No one messes around with him. When a girl in his class makes fun of his overweight mother, he retaliates. The girl's face is cut open and James is expelled from school. Before he can tell his mom what happens, he discovers her dead in her armchair. James is sent to Nebraska Home because his stepfather and the father of his sister Lauren, don't want him. James joins a dangerous gang and gets caught stealing beers. He spends the night in a cell and wakes up in the morning in a completely different location. The Hunger Games Association for the young adult and children’s literature books has announced to be grateful to the British authors, including Robert Muchamore, Charlie Higson, Anthony Horowitz and Joe Craig because of whom the series has become an explosion among the children and young adults. All the authors like Robert received the vote of thanks for the success of the hunger games. The highly successful CHERUB series written by Robert was created out of inspiration from the words of his nephews who had said that there was nothing much to read for children of his age. The novels of the series went on to win several prestigious awards, including the Red House Children’s Book Award in the Older Readers Category in the year 2005. Following the success of the series, Robert announced that he was going t develop another series with some new set of CHERUB agents. The new series was published in the form of a trilogy and featured the characters of Ryan Sharma and the 16 year old Lauren Adams.

James wakes up naked in a strange bed, and he doesn’t know how he arrived there. The room is like a fancy hotel, and someone has left new clothes for him. The bright orange t-shirt says “CHERUB.” I love a comfort read as much as the next person, but I really enjoyed these books. This one introduces us to the main character, James, who has got a pretty grim life, with very few prospects. The only things he has that are entirely positive are his sister, and his intelligence. Both which will prove to be the things he really needs. I found I couldn't like any of the characters, especially the main one. Their personalities were... erratic to say the least. In some points, they contained the maturity of a 30-year-old, and the next they were beyond stupid. However, don't think this as character development in showing weakness. I don't believe the author intended to have such an effect. Let's talk about the characters/ships now. James is the main character, who starts off as a bully and ends up being a very kind and loyal friend. It will be a lie to say I didn't like him, although at first I really despised his behavior. He never stops fighting, is brave and wants to protect his sister. And of course likes literally every girl he sees xDThe plot. This bit is the most important, as without a good, thrilling and original story plot, a book is just plain bad. No matter how good the characters or description, a book is bad if it has a boring and simple plot. The plot of this story is is a about a boy named James who lives with his 10 year old sister and his mother . When James is at school one day a girl called Samantha was teasing him about how fat his mum is. James pushes Sam over, she cuts her cheek open. When James gets home he sees his mum lying on the couch, she is pale and not moving this is when James relises she is dead. Later James is abducted by CHERUB (children undercover spys). This is a company for kids with no parents and once they a trained they go on missions to save the world. This book completes the "A book with a male main character" category on my bingo board. Although this category had already been completed before. I usually enjoy the first book in a series more than the ones that come after it, given that they set the scene and introduce the reader to the setting/situation (or the world, in the case of fantasy). That applies to the CHERUB books too but I’m not the biggest fan of the second half of The Recruit, I didn’t find the mission that interesting. In that sense, I think the later books are better, but given this is a graphic novel I was interested to see how it was portrayed.

A female classmate comments on Mum’s weight one too many times, and James pushes her against the wall. Her face catches on a nail, leaving a bloody gash. James runs from the school and wanders around to think. When he finally goes home, he sees Mum’s answering machine is full. She and Ron are drunk, and she hasn’t heard the school’s messages. The adventure in this book got me trying to guess the ending but of course I was fooled because that's what happens when you try to guess the ending in a spy book. Overall, I am so happy I read it cause it made me smile/laugh multiple times and I just couldn't help but love it with my whole heart. The Recruit audiobook". Hodder Children's Books. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012 . Retrieved 21 August 2014. Jumping ahead, the mission is a mildly exciting success. White boy saves the day. White girl helps. Other white people are there. It concludes with the message that 'oil companies are bad, sure, but attempted murder by bombs and anthrax aren't the correct solution to that problem, so what can you do but shrug?' And the thing is, I'm just not especially convinced by that argument, anymore. Maybe I played too much final fantasy VII as a kid. Maybe I'm an eco terrorist waiting to happen. Maybe I think we actually could save future generations of people with some well placed explosives now. So, was The Recruit thrilling? Absolutely. Good? Of course! Original?! Well, it's so obvious how original this story is! The Recruit was such a delight to read and I couldn't stop reading it! The Cherub series is one of my favorite series, and I have very high standards for books.Fine", Kerry said. "But if i kill it, you're cutting all the guts out and cooking it". - i like it because its funny, AND the girl did so much better than him. BURN!!!