[Dark Sun and Other Stories (Cherub)] [November, 2013]

CHERUB #1.5, 2.5, 5.5 and 10.5

by Robert Muchamore

Who would believe that a kid at a sleepover could be a spy? CHERUB: Dark Sun is a short novel aimed at new readers to CHERUB, originally written for World Book Day and now made available in print again by popular demand! To go with it are three stories never before seen in print: The Switch, CHERUB at Christmas and Kerry's First Mission. For official purposes, these children do not exist.

Genres: Young Adult, Teen, Short Stories, Fiction

Paperback

First published November 7, 2013

About the author

Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security.

The Hunger Games phenomenon is part of the huge YA / Children's book explosion that has grown, thanks to the British Rat pack of YA authors, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, Mark A. Cooper and Charlie Higson. We owe much of the hunger games sucess to authors such as Robert.

Robert was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephew after he complained about the lack of anything for them to read. CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and won the Red House Children's Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category.

Following the last book in the CHERUB series, it was revealed that a trilogy would be released starting from August 2011 that will focus on a new set of CHERUB agents centred upon Ryan Sharma and also involve an sixteen year old Lauren Adams. The first book will be called People's Republic.

Check out the Hendersons Boys series. Henderson's Boys is a series of young adult spy novels written by English author Robert Muchamore. The series follows Charles Henderson, the creator of the fictitious CHERUB organisation.
CHERUB is currently being made into a TV series.

Reviews

[Nikita Fox]

I went through a bit of a reading slump so it didn’t actually take me 2 months to read this lol, just 2 sessions of reading ha. I grew up loving the CHERUB series in my teens, and even at 26 I still love this world, I probably always will. I didn’t know this book existed until recently actually, so it was nice to have some “new” content. I enjoyed these little short stories, glimpses into life on campus, and the character summary’s are the end were a fun bonus.

[Mella]

It was cool reading stories about side characters. I love Rat so that was obviously awesome. But reading about Callum and Connor was interesting as well - I'd like to see more of them. The little character profiles at the back were fascinating - particularly the birth names or how they came to be at Cherub - including details about Zara.

[William Wolton]

I think this was a great selection of stories to be amalgamated into a single book. Fans of Robert Muchamore and Cherub will love it.

[HB]

★★★

[Simão Ramos]

finished!! I really liked the book, it surprised me positively. My favorite part was the story of each of the characters at the end

[Daniel Chapman]

It was really good to get back with the characters of CHERUB: Series 1 after reading the Series 2 books.

Even thought it was only for a short time, I thoroughly enjoyed reading each little novella.

Can't wait for another potential CHERUB book! (At the time of writing this, I am aware of Lone Wolf being released soon)

A solid 5/5 for this little page-turner!

[Abdul]

pretty easy read, obviously aimed at a younger audience - those that are already pretty familiar with the series. nothing special on its own, best read in the order of the series rather than on its own.

[Emily]

Always love a Cherub. Just wish this one was longer.

[Robyn]

Good intro to the cherub books

[Sarah Waters]

Although it was interesting to read some of the more minor characters stories this felt like a nothing book. This book didn't add anything to the series.

[James Roaf]

Wedge

This book was such a minecraft. Mine + Craft = Minecraft.Do you play minecraft? Did someone say minecraft? What a minecraft.

[niki]

I loved all the Cherub series and just never read this one, a nice flashback to my childhood.