Killer T

by Robert Muchamore

Terrifying. Romantic. Huge in scope. A story for our times.Harry and Charlie are teenagers whose lives are shaped by a society that's shifting around them. He is a lonely Brit in his first term at a Las Vegas high school. She is an unlikely friend, who gets accused of mixing a batch of explosives that blew up a football player.The two of them are drawn together at a time when gene editing technology is starting to explode. With a lab in the garage anyone can beat cancer, enhance their brain to pass exams, or tweak a few genes for that year-round tan and perfect beach body. But in the wrong hands, cheap gene editing is the most deadly weapon in history. Killer T is a synthetic virus with a ninety per-cent mortality rate, and the terrorists who created it want a billion dollars before they'll release a vaccine.Fast-paced, compelling and frighteningly close to reality, this is the first standalone novel from the internationally bestselling author of CHERUB.

Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Audiobook

448 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 6, 2018

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

[Jenniely · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s 2018. Why are women still being written like this? The character is 13, why are you talking about her sweaty chunky legs and her shirt turning see through so we can see her bra?! Why is she having sex with an ‘ugly’ guy just because? Why is the description of one of the characters that she had brown hair and cleavage?! That’s not how you describe someone! My gosh.

Why are we accepting this as okay?!

I did a thread to my thoughts about this with images here:

https://twitter.com/jenniely/status/1...
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I REALLY wanted to like Killer T. Sadly it’s definitely not for me. The writing is way off. I find it’s overly sexualising this 13 year old (see below) whilst also just unessecarily commenting on her body type? Same with the other girl. I don’t like this for many reasons.
One being - show me, don’t tell me. Every new person we’ve met so far has literally been like - this is blah, he has messy blonde hair and a strong build.
But also like... she has cleavage? That’s not a descriptor for a person! Most people can have cleavage?!
I’m not often overly negative about a book but this just rubbed me the wrong way 🤷‍♀️
I’ve given up pretty early on - you may like it. This is just my opinion
I actually have a proof copy of this and it says that it has a major publicity campaign and reached loads of teenagers, which troubles me because of how it over sexualises all these young women. The men not as much but still.
This kid is 14?!
Omg gross I skipped ahead and this happens?!
I skipped further in the book and it just get worse. Not for me. She has sex with an ‘ugly guy’ but it’s better than being alone, later in the book. Yep. This is gross.

The more I think about Killer T and read other reviews the angrier I get. The language is awful as are the overly sexualised children and the ideas portrayed 😡
Gosh I haven’t felt this irked about a book since plague land.
We don’t need to know about a 13 year old girl’s bra!!

[Alexis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was drawn into reading this book by the cover, and the description of a dystopian future with crazy gene splicing and a deadly virus. This has taught me that I should read the blurb a bit more carefully in future! The book is actually much more of a teen romance and coming of age story than it is a cool dystopian sci-fi thriller, though I guess it is a little of both.

The book centres around Harry and Charlie, and key events in their lives over a number of their formative years. It jumps forwards in time a few times, missing out a few years here and there to get to the more interesting parts. I liked this aspect of the book, and I would say that each time I was surprised at what had happened while I had been away, as it were. It was a clever way to skip the boring bits and to add a sense of progression.

The pace is quite slow, and although I did like the characters I found that the whole thing was quite vanilla. Even when exciting or sad things were happening, I didn't get much emotion from the writing or the characters themselves. At times when my heart should have been racing, when I should have been gripping the book tightly and holding back tears, there was no feeling whatsoever for me. I'm not sure why this is, I think I just expected it to be grittier given the subject matter. It was bordering on comedy at some points because of embarrassing teenaged moments, but it didn't quite get there.

All in all, I wanted to like this book, and at first I did. But then I got a bit bored with it. It was all a bit too long and drawn out, and there wasn't enough punch. Even growing up over a few years, from early teenage to early twenties, the characters didn't seem to change or mature that much at all really. Everything just stayed the same. The subject matter and the idea was great, but it was all just a surface idea with a little bit of science thrown in here and there, and nothing was made of it. I wanted more interaction with the gene modifications and the viruses, not just a brief passing comment about them here and there.

For me, this book was okay. I wouldn't say I didn't like it, but I wouldn't say I really liked it either. I'd never heard of the author before, but I now know he has written a number of other highly praised books. Honestly, I'm not going to be in a rush to read any of them. On the other hand, maybe he deserves a second chance.

[Emilija · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thank you to the publishers for providing an ARC of this book through NetGalley.

This book makes me feel so angry. This book over sexualises a thirteen year old girl and keeps referring to her appearance in a relatively negative way. This is aimed at teenagers, why is this still the way that women are treated in YA novels?? Why are some girls just described as "having cleavage"? That is not a description. Ugh, this book was just terrible.

[julianne · Rating 1 out of 5]

disappointing, shallow characters, I struggle to find anything positive to say about this.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for a copy in exchange for an honest unbiased review.

[Nic Zimmermann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent coming of age young adult novel. Killer T is set in a futuristic Las Vegas. Harry and Charlie are smart young teens growing up in a world where gene editing and man made viruses threaten life as we know it. A well realised version of the future forecasting the impact of the modern revolutions of infotech and biotech. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Four stars.

[~Madison · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t know what this book was about before reading it but it hit a little too close to what we are all going through now. A deadly virus, masks, quarantine, corrupt police.

I wish I liked this book but too many things were happening in it and some stuff didn’t make sense and the characters were all very unrealistic

Also didn’t like the way the author described a 13 year old girl. Gross.

[Dorian · Rating 1 out of 5]

I threw up in my mouth.

This book has incredibly creepy descriptions of teenage girls, and I gave up on page 66 when a grown man licked a 13 year old girl's neck. Too rapey, I'm done.

[Mira · Rating 2 out of 5]

Killer T was majorly underwhelming. I was expecting to go in for an exciting sci-fi thriller, and even though the second half of the book was alright, the first two parts had certain passages that made me more-than-slightly uncomfortable (more on that in a sec). The ending felt random. All in all, it wasn't great. The characters were underdeveloped, from time to time I got an inkling that the author had made research on teenager interactions through low budget teenage dramas, and the sci-fi aspect was unimaginative. I did enjoy the time skips in the narration.

Let's get into the issue I have with the first half of the book. Prepare for some high quality quotes.
So, in the first part Charlie is thirteen and Henry is fourteen. Let that sink in. Now proceed:
Sobs shook Charlie’s body as Harry breathed her smell and felt a little turned on.

I want to kiss her, but that’s the last thing she wants right now.

Charlie shuddered as he loomed behind, planting a hairy hand on each shoulder. ‘You’re sweating through that overall,’ mystery man noticed as his stale breath hit her face. ‘It’s not leaving much to my imagination.'

‘Nice,’he growled, taking one hand off and edging a slight grin. Then he pushed out his tongue and licked from the base of Charlie’s chin to her earlobe. His breath was like rot and she could hear the spit slosh around his mouth as he spoke his final words. ‘It’s been a pleasure breaking you.’


In the second part Charlie is "almost sixteen" aka still fifteen.
He looked about eighteen and he’d strode from his room in CK briefs that left little to the imagination.

‘So, who’s this blue -eyed honey?’ the Yankees-shirt guy said as he gave Charlie a creepy grin. ‘Bit young, even for you, Brad.’

‘Did you have sex with Deion Powell?’ Tracksuit asked as Charlie started a brisk walk. ‘You were only thirteen, you dirty girl!’

Charlie sat on Brad’s toilet and felt spaced out as she peed. So, that was sex then . . .

‘I have to leave earlier when Mel’s staying at her dad’s,’ Brad explained. The girlfriend’s name made the bed even less comfortable.

She’d wondered if the night before had been a one-off, but this was clearly more than an offer of food and she craned slightly, biting the muffin, then gently sucking his fingertips.

But the attentions of a guy who could be a model, and prospects of work and money made Charlie feel like she mattered.

Look, I'm fine with sex in YA books, I truly am. But this is just... no, thank you.

And then there's this thing about "smelling people." Here I graciously offer a couple of examples (plus the two already mentioned above):
‘I remember when you were little. You had that warm milky smell and when nobody was looking I’d pick you up and sniff because I loved it so much.’

Harry smiled when he set eyes on Charlie. Her smell, her hair all scruffy.

But I need to hear Charlie’s voice. See her smile, catch her smell.

Well, and of course, the "little left to imagination" thing that was repeated throughout the book.
You see where I'm coming from?
The second half of the book was just fine and redeeming enough to warrant an extra star. I just can't get over that face licking. And the smell kink or whatever you want to call it. I just... no.

[Crimelpoint · Rating 2 out of 5]

Zaczęło się naprawdę interesująco, ale szkoda, że każda część ma tak ogromny przeskok czasowy. Przez to łatwo się czasem pogubić.

Ogólnie historia niezła, nie była wybitna, ale narzekać też nie mogę.

[Ania · Rating 3 out of 5]

Na początku było nudno i oblesnie ale później spoks

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

It took me a long time to figure out what was missing from Killer T.

I spent nearly a week reading it, and all the while I had a nagging feeling in the back of my mind telling me something was off. I didn't know what to make of a novel that only got weirder and crazier with every chapter. There were parts at which I was tempted to DNF, and parts at which I thought this might be a solid 4-star read. What was going on here?

Then yesterday it hit me. After all that searching, my biggest gripe with Killer T is that I don't understand its purpose.

Novels, after all, are written for one purpose or another. Whether that's to entertain, convey a political message, or reveal some truth about the human condition, stories say or do something. And I just can't figure out, even after reading the entire book, what Killer T is trying to say. It flirts with entertainment but never gains momentum as a thriller, incorporates elements of dystopia but lacks the social relevance of a true dystopian work, and reads like contemporary realism but with protagonists too remarkable to apply to most teenagers.

I went into Killer T expecting, maybe foolishly, something like Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series--teenaged spies, MG level reading. Obviously I was wrong. Killer T is a lot darker and arguably more grounded in the real world, even if it's still not exactly a realistic story.

Split into five parts with significant time skips in between, the plot spans a full eight years from the time when Harry is fourteen and Charlie thirteen to their adulthoods. I was expecting a continuous thriller, so the time skips were quite jarring. However, it was interesting to see how the main characters had changed after each jump of two or three years. That I think was quite realistic, and deeply preferable to spending the whole novel with Harry as his insufferable fourteen-year-old self.

In fact, Parts 3 to 5 were head and shoulders above Parts 1 and 2. My near-DNF moments came mostly in Parts 1 and 2, which turned the trashy up to eleven. I understand wanting to write a gritty novel, but personally trashy was the word that flashed in my mind again and again while I was reading the first half of Killer T at the expense of all other adjectives. It didn't matter what their socioeconomic status or level of intelligence, all the characters behaved in ways that made me want to drop the book and wash my hands.



Call me a prude--I feel uncomfortable when one of the protagonists befriends the other exclusively because she turns him on when he meets her the first time at which point she's thirteen, and turns against her as soon as she sleeps with another guy because, it's implied, she owes HIM a relationship for treating her nice. The other protagonist sleeps with aforementioned guy multiple times despite having met his girlfriend and knowing in no uncertain terms that she's his girlfriend. Neither of them are particularly likeable; I was only able to root for them because the antagonists were so irredeemably awful, you wonder if they're not the secret love children of Hitler and Satan.

Yeah, this was a pretty depressing book. There's no light at the end of the tunnel until Part 4 or 5. A bit late if you ask me. The trashiness became a bit more palatable as soon as I realised that this was a coming-of-age story with elements of sci-fi thriller and not the other way round. It was still not my cup of tea, but at least it was meant to be gross and a learning experience, rather than the glorified author-endorsed actions of hero protagonists?

Harry and Charlie in fact spent the entire novel getting their shit together, and it wasn't until the final two, maybe three parts that they became characters I supported. Before I just felt sorry for Charlie and annoyed by Harry for the most part.

At this point I remember yet another of my misconceptions regarding this book: From the synopsis and cover, I thought there'd be much higher stakes, that the main characters would be at the heart of the Killer T crisis. The truth was, it was only a backdrop for two teenagers learning how to adult. In the end, maybe that's the most faithful description of Killer T. After all, this is not a lighthearted or a fun read. It's an adequate, occasionally insightful coming-of-age drama digging into the grittiest parts of the adolescent experience. Read at your own discretion.

*Thanks to Bonnier Zaffre and NetGalley for providing a review copy of this book! All opinions represented remain my own.*

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[Sami Passlow · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thank you to Allen & Unwin for sending me this book after I won their 24 Days of Christmas Facebook Advent Calendar giveaway for 2018.

The plot had so much potential. The book didn’t involve any gene editing until half way through, and since that’s the entire plot of the novel, the first half was full of unnecessary events and information. I also didn’t enjoy the time jumps between parts. The story telling was more tell and less show.

The characters were also very unlikeable:

Harry
- Constantly complains about Charlie not being interested in him
- Gets jealous and mad that Charlie hooks up with another guy
- After Charlie unintentionally broke his heart, because she hooked up with some other dude, she never speaks to her again for 2yrs and calls her a slut. She was fifteen at the time.
- Thinks Charlie should hook up with him since he bought her expensive gifts.
- All of the female characters are unnecessary over-sexualised you Harry, including Charlie when she was 13.

Charlie
- Continuously sleeps with the guy, knowing he has a girlfriend, and yet she has no problem with it.
- Throughout the years of working at an illegal business, she continuously complains about how illegal it is and how much trouble she’ll be in if she’s caught.
- Thinks she all that because she’s super smart at a young age

Background Characters are sometimes:
- Sexist
- Racist
- Homophobic

By the time all of the plot twists happen (including Harry’s death) I didn’t have a single care about any of it. If this book didn’t have an audiobook I don’t think I would have made it past 100pgs. I think Chapter 68 should’ve been the end of the book. I also think the articles onwards from Chapter 69 should’ve been the epilogue, everything else I didn’t care about and though was unnecessary. The gene editing is the reason why I was interested in this book and this plot had a few appearances 1/2 way through but wasn’t relevant until about 2/3 of the way through the book. If this book was half the length, I think it would be a lot better. There wouldn’t be a need for all of the unnecessary and pointless events and subplots, and maybe the promised plot description would be more included.

[Liz Barnsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review to follow.

[NoConforto Dos Livros · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Holly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I only manged to get through half of this book because the story was too slow and not really going anywhere. It wasn't exciting. I did however, like the characters.

[Elrien · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the worst book I have (tried to) read ever - and I read a lot. I am upset that I have spend money on it, but I am sure not wasting any space on my bookshelf on it - it is going straight to the dustbin, hopefully to be re-cycled. Not only is the blurb misleading, the main characters act in insensitive ways, the humour is offensive, the technology is 2018 in a supposedly futuristic setting, the author only tells and hardly shows ... and that is just a small glimpse into the first few chapters. I am also not wasting time writing a longer review on this book, but there is much more wrong here. I actually do not understand how publishers can let a book like this loose on the unsuspecting reading population?

[SecretsOfaBookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

What did I think?
At first, the book was fairly slow and it was dull however, it did speed up and the story began to come together. I enjoyed how Robert Muchamore incorporated the idea of Gene editing going out of control to the point people became zombie-like.

Head over to my blog to read the rest of my review on Killer T!
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[Trish · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was difficult to put down once I got into it. Muchamore poses an interesting question : "What would happen if gene editing technology became common place and could be undertaken anywhere by anyone?" The answer is frightening. Fast paced and well researched, I really enjoyed this book and I will be recommending it to all my students.

[NoConforto Dos Livros · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Apesar de tudo, o estilo leve e descontraído de Robert Muchamore é perfeitamente capaz de nos manter agarrados às páginas. Aliás, nunca li menos de 100 páginas por dia."
Leiam a resenha :) https://no-conforto-dos-livros.webnod...

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book follows the lives and trials of two teenagers - Harry and Charlie. Harry has just moved to Las Vegas from the UK, is nicknamed Harry Potter and comes from a fairly privileged background, whilst Charlie is a girl living in a dirty trailer with a psychotic older sister and a brain damaged younger brother, and has already been in trouble with the law. Not a very likely basis for friendship but they do have some things in common and are both intelligent, determined and articulate.

The story cleverly develops over a number of years and we see the massive societal problems caused by unlicensed genetic modification as the technology becomes cheaper and easier to use, ranging from simple but unwise changes in wildlife, to humans with gorilla DNA to make them bigger and stronger. Obviously, a major theme of the book is the modified or enhanced diseases regularly being released which kill off a percentage of the population and cause massive societal changes - such as going through a sterilisation procedure before entering shop, waiting in quarantine for 7 days after an international flight, and always wearing a face mask outdoors (complete with Nike or Adidas logo!)

This book is aimed at young adults and the sudden time-jumps ("2 years later") are a little disconcerting but understandable, and each time segment highlights the changes that have occurred in Harry and Charlie's lives, the widespread take-up of gene modifying technology well beyond the ability of the authorities to police, and the resulting dramatic societal changes.

My only criticisms are that the narrative sometimes drops into exposition, and I felt some characters spoke in a manner well beyond their age - for example would a 5 year old boy really call someone a 'lumbering ape'?

I enjoyed Killer T and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys dystopian thrillers.

[cherry · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was... something. I've read Robert Muchamore's Cherubs series and liked those, so this book came as a big disappointment. While the premise is very interesting, with the whole gene-editing, there seems to be no goal or purpose, not for the book and also not for the characters. It just doesn't really go anywhere and the entire virus situation seemed more as background setting than actual part of the story.

I also did not like how sexualized many of the characters were, especially in the first parts of the books. Okay, Harry is a horny teenage boy, but still, it was gross as it was also done to young characters. This also made me have zero sympathy for Harry or what so ever. Charlie was more likeable as a character, but was prone for making the stupid mistakes while she's supposed to be incredibly smart

And the number of times it is mentioned that someone is peeing, why? The peeing was also some sort of plot device to characters discovering things lol. The characters didn't seem very consistent, sometimes changing their minds within the span of a few pages, while they were first determined to absolutely not do something. This also only seemed to be used as a device to create conflict.

Nevertheless, this books falls into the category 'so bad it is entertaining', cause though there were multiple things absolutely wrong with this book, it was somehow still an entertaining read. Though I have to say, the book also felt badly edited with some name mistakes and obvious spelling mistakes.

[Naadhira Zahari · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book seems like it's been split into parts and each one has its own twists and turns in events. Usually, for previous books that I've read for Dystopian, the disease has already spread for years and the story only began when they're in survival mode. Then, it's up to them to decide how they continue on with their lives.

This story started right from the very beginning when they're still in their early teens and they've really gone through a lot, especially Charlie. Slowly, years go by and people start to modify their bodies and diseases start to spread away. This book really started from nothing, it builds up, it seems as though there seems to be no hope for the world but it slowly progresses until the end. There didn't seem to be a dull moment and when things were boring. There was always something exciting happening in their lives that makes it go up and down.

I really wasn't expecting this kind of story when I picked it up. This story was very new, refreshing and an eye opener. It really is like nothing of any book you have read. You'll suffer with all the characters' pain, feel their all sorts of emotions and fight with all your might for their lives.

[Florine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un roman dense et tumultueux dont on ne peut pas s'empêcher de tourner les pages !
J'ai beaucoup aimé les personnages qui sonnent juste : pleins d'espoir, de désillusion, qui commettent des erreurs dont ils ne tirent pas tout le temps les bonnes leçons : qui m'ont parut très humain en somme malgré le monde étrange et cruel dans lequel ils évoluent.
L'histoire est régulièrement ponctuée de bonds de plusieurs années en avant ce qui nous fait redecouvrir les personnages à différentes étapes de leurs vies, replonger dans des intrigues différentes (mais avec une même ligne conductrice), et de plonger chaque fois plus dans la SF, dans un monde de plus en plus hors de contrôle, en constante évolution et aux dangers grandissants.
C'est un roman vraiment intéressant pour grands ados et jeunes adultes.

[Karla Brading · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well that was an adrenaline rush! I saw some reviews about the language sexualising a 13 year old character but in truth, I didn't feel like it jarred or disrupted the story. Or seemed inappropriate. It's dystopian fiction. Characters probably WOULD behave this way, even at tender ages. Have you ever sat and listened to the way 13 year olds talk? Watched how they behave? Some may say they want a teens to have positive imagery with reasonable messages when it comes to age and sex in writing... And sure, there's plenty of books like that out there.... But the grittiness worked well with the intelligent writing and fast paced plot of this novel. I really did find it fascinating.

[18billyackcooperj139 · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a very good book about two teenagers Harry and Charlie, Charlie got sent to Jail for possessing explosives linked to the explosion of a footballer. Harry and Charlie had to fend off against Zombies (people with z-mods) and it was a time when gene-editing went crazy so suddenly Harry gets big muscles and becomes super strong. Charlie and Harry end up in love but after getting attacked by super natural zombies, Harry ends up dieing and Charlies autistic brother manages to save the day after Charlie gets captured with a grenade. A great read I would thoroughly recommend from the author of Cherub

[Alicja Smogór · Rating 3 out of 5]

Myślę, że 3,25 będzie sprawiedliwą oceną. Moim zdaniem od razu widać, że tę powieść napisał facet. Między innymi przez rzeczowe podejście, o ile można tak to nazwać. Emocje nie odgrywają tu znaczącej roli. Momentami właśnie tego mi brakowało. Za to pomysł, niezwykle realistycznej wizji przyszłości tak swoją drogą, wciąga. Byłam ciekawa kolejnych stron, chociaż żadna akcja i plot twist mnie nie porwały tak jakbym tego chciała. Może dlatego, że nie przepadałam za postaciami 🤷🏼‍♀️ Nie przekonują mnie też tak ogromne rozbieżności w czasie. Podsumowując raczej szybko zapomnę o tej książce :(

[Theirlives · Rating 4 out of 5]

dałabym temu takie 3,75⭐ bo podobala mi sie oryginalnosc tematu.
Fajnie ze wydarzenia byly opisane z roznych punktow widzenia. Ludzi majacych wplyw na epidemie jak i pozniej tych samych ludzi, ktorzy musieli sami sie orzed nia chronic. Sporo rzeczy sie dzialo i tak naprawde jak siadlam do czytania to bardzo sprawnie to szlo

[esmé · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was soo good!!! It was scarily like our situation now (it was written in 2018) but it's supposed to be near future so I suppose it is that 😂 seriously though, everyone should give this and arctic zoo a read!

[Lily · Rating 3 out of 5]

It took me so, so long to get into this. For a start, it started years before the actual plot came together and had, I think, about four or five time skips? I lost count by the end of the book. It makes sense when you look at it as a whole and realise that it's showing the rise of gene editing, but most of the time while I was reading it, I was bored. It would have been better if it had at least been started after Charlie got out of prison, I think.

I liked Charlie quite a bit, but I honestly completely hated Harry. He was fairly okay at the start, but as time went on he just became more and more of a prick. I hate how he treated Charlie so much when he didn't even tell her that he liked her. Charlie deserved so much better than him.

The world was really interesting, especially after the epidemic, seeing the world slowly rebuilding itself and putting together more protections for the next epidemic. I have to say, I did like a lot how it ended and how Charlie ended up.

I think it was worth reading, but I really, really wish it had been shorter. I think a lot of stuff could have been cut out while still showing a nice overall picture of the rise of gene editing and Charlie and Harry's life.

[Laren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a huge fan of Robert Muchamore's work, and I was super excited to get my hands on a proof copy of Killer T from work!
I loved the premise and enjoyed the way the story played out, the multiple time skips were unexpected but I wasn't opposed to them once I got used to the rapid time jumps.
Like with a lot of Muchamore's main characters, I liked them without actually 'liking' them, he's really very good at writing flawed, annoying characters you still kind of care about haha :)

Rating 3 and a 1/2 stars