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Reading elsewhere, and especially reviews by teenagers themselves, I find the books to be hugely successful – the eleventh in the series will join this and the previous eight before 2008 is out. And while they find the action exhilarating, the pace dramatic, the character interaction realistic (gawd help us) I have to put my foot down and say this is a very poor book. I cannot believe someone felt amenable to the Asian family being depicted as such, and the flippancy of the whole story to what should be important miffed me just as did the inappropriate language.
I am certainly not a fuddy-duddy, and certainly not a parent, but would consider this a very poor choice for any fantasy teenage child of my own. It bears little resemblance to British school life, as featured; regular, teenage goings-on; or any kind of sensitively or sensibly balanced teen fiction. A book that did not jar as much as this did with me might well be an acceptably enjoyable adventure, were it to have a decently plotted curve and writing I felt more comfortable with. The next regular volume in the series promises ''the best war game ever''. Yeesh. You might also enjoy [[Jake Highfield: Chaos Unleashed by Alec Sillifant]].
[[Robert Muchamore's CHERUB books in Chronological Order]]
