Disconnected

CHERUB #5.5

by Robert Muchamore

The events in this story take place at the same time as Chapter 44 of Divine Madness.

Robert Muchamore wrote this story after loads of fans e-mailed him asking about James' Adams' dad.

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, Short Stories

6 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 14, 2006

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

[Philip · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really disappointing. Apparently Muchamore wrote this as a response to fans continuously asking him about James' father. The way to answer that is not to dump a load of exposition onto the page, it is to work the answer subtly into the narrative of a future book - to make James' dad mean actually mean something within the story. This is pure fan-pandering and poorly written at that. 1 star.

[Kireth · Rating 2 out of 5]

So there's a loose connection to Divine Madness here but the way I see it this really short story's events could have taken place anywhere in the CHERUB series timeline. Basically, we meet James's real father who decides to reveal the truth about his past relationship with Gwen Choke (the Adams siblings' mother) to his new fiance across 6 pages. It's interesting, adds some criminal and mathematical backstory to James's character, but that's pretty much it. Would have beeen nice if this tied in to the series in a greater capacity.

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, I guess now we know where James’s aptitude for mathematics came from! His father is a maths professor!

Honestly though, I feel pretty sorry for his Dad. I mean sure, James saw him as an absent father that he never knew but it sounds like he genuinely did try even if it didn’t work out. Thought that counts, right?

[Mella · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a jerk. What is it? Genetic? I would've liked to have known some of James' thoughts on his father and be curious to know if he is aware of his other family.