Imagine one minute you’re a weedy 11-year-old whose sister can get you in a headlock while filing her nails – and the next minute you’re backflipping right through the glass of first floor windows, fighting off full grown trained agents, running like a cheetah and basically defying all the usual laws of 11-year-old physics…
Well that’s what happens to unsuspecting Jimmy Coates when shadowy government men come to ‘collect him’ from his family one evening. As soon as he’s got over the shock of instant superpowers, Jimmy has to deal with finding out that he’s only 38 per cent human. It’s a lot to take in on a school night.
This is Joe Craig’s amazing idea and the trauma of it rings all the way through poor Jimmy’s life in the first book of the series. If you love high octane adventure, this is the book for you. I really started squeaking when Jimmy flew a helicopter along the River Thames, ducking under bridges, chased by missiles – and then casually jumped out of the moving chopper to swim his way to freedom beneath the river.
All sorts of disturbing secrets get revealed along the way, as Jimmy fights against some overwhelming programming by a government intent on using him as a lethal weapon (even before he’s done his SATs!).
And plenty of new plotlines are smartly set up along the way, for an action packed series which is going to run and run…
(And between you and me, I think Joe has a bit of a thing for Greek food. There’s a lot of kebab-based action here!)
Ali Sparkes
22/06/2010 at 3:47 am Permalink
I love to taste some greek foods because they are very spicy..~:
21/07/2010 at 5:38 am Permalink
Greek foods are like asian foods, they are both tangy and very spicy.-.*
06/09/2010 at 10:15 am Permalink
Greek Foods are tasty and delicious maybe because of the spices they put in it.-*
12/10/2010 at 1:26 am Permalink
some greek foods are not spicy but very sweet”*~
13/12/2010 at 7:51 pm Permalink
Italian and Greek Foods are indeed very spicy. sometimes they are so spicy hot *~,
10/09/2011 at 7:18 pm Permalink
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07/11/2011 at 2:43 pm Permalink
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