James and his half sister, Lauren, live with their mom in a dump of an apartment and always seems to be in trouble coming home battered and bruised. When their mom dies, Lauren goes to live with her physically abusive, no-good dad and James goes to an orphanage where chances of being placed in a foster home is slim to none. One arrest too many lands James at a secret Cherub recruiting base where he will be trained to be a spy for the British government. If he survives the 100 day basic training he will become a Cherub agent. His first mission is to infiltrate a hippie commune and find out who is planning to kill Petrocon convention attendees. Just when things are going great, James uncovers the plan to be unleashed at Petrocan and now his life is on the line.
Now that the Alex Rider series has ended, Cherub is a great replacement for an adventure, spy story with a male protagonist. The action was fast paced, James' basic training was brutal but real, and the twists and turns keep the action going until the end of the book. There are a few British slang words but nothing that can't be understood from the context of the sentence. There is a sequel and I can't wait to read it.
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I thought there was no protagnist because in the other books Kerry Laura all come in. But i agree with you because James IS the main focus. Good work on the book review!
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