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The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire #5
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The fifth of seven brand new 39 Clues stories, leading up to one explosive reveal.
Amy Cahill knows her family needs to be prepared for the next Vesper attack, so she organizes a training weekend at the brand new Cahill command center. However, Dan and the others would rather goof off than hone their secret agent skills. Can Amy channel her inner leader and bring everyone in line? Or will a surprise appearance by a Vesper assassin prove that she's in over her head?
Amy Cahill knows her family needs to be prepared for the next Vesper attack, so she organizes a training weekend at the brand new Cahill command center. However, Dan and the others would rather goof off than hone their secret agent skills. Can Amy channel her inner leader and bring everyone in line? Or will a surprise appearance by a Vesper assassin prove that she's in over her head?
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 29, 2011
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March 8, 2024
This was one so fun! Not really sure why, but i enjoyed every page!
- Hard time adjusting back to everyday life after the clue hunt
- Amy is training to be ready for the vespers
- Reconstructing the mansion
- Invited cahills to get together
- Still awkward with ian
- Amy’s trying to train the cahills but they aren’t listening and just want to have fun. Other than dan, no one knows the vespers are attacking
- Vesper one has been watching amy
- Jonah’s sad he hasn’t heard from his mom. And on his real (secret) birthday
- Skydiving lesson. Amy’s nervous but instructor reminds her of nellie
- Amy wasn’t clipped to her instructor… she’s a vesper!! Looking for the ring
- Jumped out by herself to avoid getting shot
- Hard time adjusting back to everyday life after the clue hunt
- Amy is training to be ready for the vespers
- Reconstructing the mansion
- Invited cahills to get together
- Still awkward with ian
- Amy’s trying to train the cahills but they aren’t listening and just want to have fun. Other than dan, no one knows the vespers are attacking
- Vesper one has been watching amy
- Jonah’s sad he hasn’t heard from his mom. And on his real (secret) birthday
- Skydiving lesson. Amy’s nervous but instructor reminds her of nellie
- Amy wasn’t clipped to her instructor… she’s a vesper!! Looking for the ring
- Jumped out by herself to avoid getting shot
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April 4, 2014
it was a interesting good book. enjoy to those who are going to read it and i wont say anymore to spoil it.
July 7, 2025
I actually liked this one - it focused more on Amy - she invites all of the kids that worked together to come to their house so they could train and attend various lessons because it's important that they stay ahead of the Vespers- nobody listens to her or does anything she plans - until they go skydiving. Everyone jumps but her instructor turns out to be a Vesper- she wants her ring but Amy ends up jumping alone and surviving - she chooses not to tell anyone about what went down though and I really didn't like that part because she is constantly talking about open conversations and not keeping secrets... only for her to keep secrets like this.
January 11, 2022
Ai que orgulho do quanto a menina Amy cresceu. Ela nunca foi uma protagonista dessas comuns super heroicas e conseguiu enfrentar tantos desafios e ainda tem tantos pela frente, tentar comandar essa família nunca vai ser fácil e mesmo assim ela tá ali cheia de medo, mas ainda tentando fazer de tudo para proteger todos.
February 5, 2022
Short snippet into the events after Vespers Rising. I was sad that Dan and Amy were fighting over how to deal with things. I have to say I probably would be favouring Amy's approach of planning ahead and training over Dan's there's nothing we can do plan. I liked that all the Cahill kids reunite - I would've liked it to be longer to see more interaction. 3.5 stars.
March 3, 2023
Nice to see the more mundane part of their lives
We keep seeing them in high pressure life or death situations, we forget that they are kids. Kids who are family and want to have fun in between attempted murders and diabolical plots.
We see Amy finally growing up to be a leader. On the other hand, she hid the truth from Dan and the others, something that would have been unimaginable a mere year before.
We keep seeing them in high pressure life or death situations, we forget that they are kids. Kids who are family and want to have fun in between attempted murders and diabolical plots.
We see Amy finally growing up to be a leader. On the other hand, she hid the truth from Dan and the others, something that would have been unimaginable a mere year before.
July 7, 2020
These are cute editions to the series, but not necessary to read.
July 13, 2023
Por fin estoy leyendo mi tema favorito:
LA CONVIVENCIA DE LOS PEQUES CAHILLS 🤩🥰🥰🥰🤩
Que alguien consiga un pastel para Jonah😭
LA CONVIVENCIA DE LOS PEQUES CAHILLS 🤩🥰🥰🥰🤩
Que alguien consiga un pastel para Jonah😭
October 27, 2024
stupid vespers
January 4, 2025
Closer to 3.5 stars
February 11, 2025
my kids actually being friends has me all 🥹
January 4, 2023
Eleven Months after the Cue Hunt
Amy Cahill and her brother Dan are rebuilding their grandmother's estate, her mansion, with a few modifications: a command center for the coming battle between the Cahills and Vespers, a gym for training, and a multi-million dollar security system. Amy and Dan have invited the other members of their generation that were part of the clue hunt for the weekend. The Cahills attending are:
Amy Cahill
Dan Cahill
Hamilton Holt
Reagan Holt
Madison Holt
Natalie Kabra
Ian Kabra
Jonah Wizard
Amy has planned a strict schedule of events, but once all the kids are together, for the most part mayhem ensues. But the Vespers might be closer than Amy thinks. Of the five stories so far, this was the best. The only real continuity issue is Ian: in this one he comes to see Amy and the other family members, and in the previous one, he bails on Amy just a few months earlier and tries to push her away. We can only chalk that up to different authors writing different books and for the Rapid Fire Series under a pseudonym.
I love the original 39 Clues books, and have on my short list to read the second series The Cahills vs. Vespers, but this short series released between December 25th and December 31st 2011 really caught my attention. 7 Days 7 Short Stories each give us part of a clue and more background information on some of the characters from the books. The short stories are more than worth the price of $0.99 each.
Read the review and with links to other reviews of books in the 39 Clues series on my blog Book Reviews and More.
Amy Cahill and her brother Dan are rebuilding their grandmother's estate, her mansion, with a few modifications: a command center for the coming battle between the Cahills and Vespers, a gym for training, and a multi-million dollar security system. Amy and Dan have invited the other members of their generation that were part of the clue hunt for the weekend. The Cahills attending are:
Amy Cahill
Dan Cahill
Hamilton Holt
Reagan Holt
Madison Holt
Natalie Kabra
Ian Kabra
Jonah Wizard
Amy has planned a strict schedule of events, but once all the kids are together, for the most part mayhem ensues. But the Vespers might be closer than Amy thinks. Of the five stories so far, this was the best. The only real continuity issue is Ian: in this one he comes to see Amy and the other family members, and in the previous one, he bails on Amy just a few months earlier and tries to push her away. We can only chalk that up to different authors writing different books and for the Rapid Fire Series under a pseudonym.
I love the original 39 Clues books, and have on my short list to read the second series The Cahills vs. Vespers, but this short series released between December 25th and December 31st 2011 really caught my attention. 7 Days 7 Short Stories each give us part of a clue and more background information on some of the characters from the books. The short stories are more than worth the price of $0.99 each.
Read the review and with links to other reviews of books in the 39 Clues series on my blog Book Reviews and More.
July 13, 2020
***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***
Amy Cahill has invited almost all of the children from the clue hunt to her half built mansion for a reunion and training weekend. She knows the Vespers are coming and they aren’t ready, they need to prepare and train. Except only Dan knows the Vespers exist and he and the other children have no interest in training. But when a Vesper assassin comes to visit will they change their minds? Will they even survive it?
So yes there were a few discrepancies in this story, but nothing like the other stories in the series and strangely enough Amy and Ian are now 15 again. Man they have strange aging cycles in Riley’s world. The story was however fast paced with a decent plot. While it didn’t offer anything in educational value, discrepancies were minimal and characterizations were realistic. This is the first Rapid Fire novella I have enjoyed since the beginning of the series. Meaning I liked number one and number five and could have gladly skipped those in between. Riley forgot to include Sinead and her brothers, but otherwise it was a great story in a well written close third person told from Amy’s point of view.
Amy is the only fully developed character in this story. Riley relies on past knowledge of the other character for readers to know how they behave. But with the length of these stories I feel he did an excellent job on Amy.
Overall the short story was a nice addition to the 39 Clues Franchise and for once I’d actually recommend it to readers of The 39 Clues series.
Amy Cahill has invited almost all of the children from the clue hunt to her half built mansion for a reunion and training weekend. She knows the Vespers are coming and they aren’t ready, they need to prepare and train. Except only Dan knows the Vespers exist and he and the other children have no interest in training. But when a Vesper assassin comes to visit will they change their minds? Will they even survive it?
So yes there were a few discrepancies in this story, but nothing like the other stories in the series and strangely enough Amy and Ian are now 15 again. Man they have strange aging cycles in Riley’s world. The story was however fast paced with a decent plot. While it didn’t offer anything in educational value, discrepancies were minimal and characterizations were realistic. This is the first Rapid Fire novella I have enjoyed since the beginning of the series. Meaning I liked number one and number five and could have gladly skipped those in between. Riley forgot to include Sinead and her brothers, but otherwise it was a great story in a well written close third person told from Amy’s point of view.
Amy is the only fully developed character in this story. Riley relies on past knowledge of the other character for readers to know how they behave. But with the length of these stories I feel he did an excellent job on Amy.
Overall the short story was a nice addition to the 39 Clues Franchise and for once I’d actually recommend it to readers of The 39 Clues series.
May 6, 2013
This is what's frustrating me with the whole Cahill clan, they keep secrets to themselves even if it really needs to be shared so that everyone will be prepared. They all think that keeping secrets somehow would protect their loved ones...don't they know that every secret has its own way of surfacing when you least expected it and sometimes it creates more problems...
May 31, 2017
Very interesting and made me want even more! Man, this is one suspenseful story! This is held in Amy's POV and she's a little stronger than normal and I still love her character! She's amazing! This book was surprising!
April 2, 2020
2020: I feel so bad for Amy in this one. No one listens to her. She's trying to preemptively save everyone's lives, but no one seems to realize just how much danger they're in. This was emotional and action packed, and I loved it.
September 7, 2015
i love all the Cahill kids. i really do. XD on the the 6th!
July 2, 2012
Yes! I thought the original series really glossed over the topics covered in this book. The transition of a character seemed to just happen over night. I love having the back story for this!
July 24, 2012
Well-written short story
August 19, 2013
It was a good book, shows Amy trying to train the rest of the Cahills to be ready for an attack and then there is an attack that she has to be ready for.
June 12, 2013
This one was from Amy's point of view. She is trying to prepare the rest of the Cahill children for the Vesper attacks that await.
July 29, 2013
Another serving of bite-sized 39 Clues.. very faced paced quick read..
July 9, 2014
Like the other books in this series, I read this book nonstop. This series is so interesting. I loved this book so much and I cannot wait to read the other books in this series.
October 7, 2024
Amy
What happens when we fell like we can't share the burden we carry with others. Once again she's all alone.
What happens when we fell like we can't share the burden we carry with others. Once again she's all alone.
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