The FNG of CHERUB

This week I read CHERUB mission 1: the recruit by Robert MuchaMore. It’s the thing that keeps me begging for more like, what happens next, why would he do that?

This book is about a child named James Adams whose mother has just died. When his little sister got sent to live with her father, Uncle Ron, James had to move to the Nebraska House. James meets a boy named Kyle. But a while after James came to the Nebraska House; they sent him and Kyle to Cherub. It turned out that Kyle was already a part of Cherub. Cherub is a organization in the UK that takes kids and turns them into agents. They send them on top secret missions that M15 or the police don't know about.

 There are different shirt colors for your rank at Cherub. Orange is guest, Red is before training, Blue is for training, Grey is for completing training, Navy is for doing a good job on missions and Black is for doing an excellent job on many missions. After James completed his 100 day training, he got sent on a mission with his swimming teacher, Amy to go into a place called Fort Harmony and find out about some terrorist related activities. After they nailed all of them except for one, James and Amy went back to Cherub. When they got back, James got his Navy Shirt and Kyle got his after. Kyle was jealous that James got his Navy Shirt before him. 

               

                        In Cherub, Robert Muchanmore writes as a James the latest Cherub recruit. He's a bit of a troublemaker, but he’s also very brilliant. And CHERUB needs him. But before he can start in the field, he must survive one hundred grueling days of basic training, where even some of the toughest recruits don't make it to the end. Throughout the book James is faced with lots of family problems. Although he has lots of family problems i think that helps him to push harder during his basic training. While James was attending school his mom died and his sister was taken into his stepfathers care. James stepfather is not really fit to be a father and James knows it but he can’t do anything about it. Robert Muchamore does a great job taking James from being the son of an alcoholic and a trouble maker to some one how is now a much respected member of a very elite club. So when you put it like this, he’s like a teenage James Bond, except he doesn’t kill anyone.

With a side of random

The book I’m reading is called Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. I have to say, it’s a good book but it’s no hunger games. To be honest, you eventually drift off and fall asleep from your book. That is what I get from some scenes in the book. Besides that, I’m okay with this book.

Cold Mountain is the story of Inman, a wounded and soul-sick Confederate soldier who, like his literary fellow-traveler Odysseus, has quit the field of battle only to find the way home littered with impediments and prowled by adversaries. Inman's Penelope is Ada, a headstrong belle who has forsaken her place in Charleston society in order to accompany her father -- a tubercular southern gentleman turned missionary -- to a new home in the healthy mountain air of North Carolina. Frazier divides the narrative between Inman's homeward progress and Ada's struggle to make it on her own after her father dies, establishing an underlying tension that is at once subtle and irresistible. 

Inman is critically wounded in the fighting outside Petersburg and, after a rough triage; he is "classed among the dying and put on a cot to do so." When his body stubbornly refuses to comply, he is evacuated further south to a hospital where he may succumb at his leisure. But against all odds, Inman's terrible injury insists upon healing itself. During the long months of convalescence he struggles to shed the hated, insulating numbness put on against the carnage he has seen -- Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Petersburg, Fredericksburg -- and probes his psychic wounds for the shrapnel of his former self. He finds instead a refuge in the "topography of home in his head" and the Cherokee folk tales of his childhood friend Swimmer: 

"As Inman sat brooding and pining for his lost self, one of Swimmer's creekside stories rushed into his memory with great urgency and attractiveness. Swimmer claimed that above the blue vault of heaven there was a forest inhabited by a celestial race. Men could not go there to stay and live, but in that high land the dead spirit could be reborn. This is all I know so far, I still haven’t finished the whole book, but I look forward to the end.