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CHERUB #7
The Fall
When an MI5 mission goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation.
And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning.
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation.
And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning.
330 pages, Paperback
First published March 15, 2007
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About the author
Robert Muchamore
152 books1,920 followersRobert 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.
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.
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July 28, 2013
Why I decided to read this book:
At first I was a bit reluctant to read this novel because my friend said it was the saddest book in the series. However, I couldn't not read the book because then, I knew I wouldn't be able to carry on reading the rest of the series.
Category:
This book was part of the 'a book with a male main character' category. I think that this category was interesting for me because it was a male perspective, which made me realise that the think differently from a female/me.
Favourite quote and why:
My favourite quote from this book was from the scene where James (the main character) was trying to make up with his girlfriend and Kerry (the girlfriend) asked her friends around the table if she should accept his apology and "everyone started to laugh, and comments flew around the table ranging from 'kick his arse'* to 'marry him and get it over with'." because it showed me that people have different opinions and perspectives.
*sorry for the bad language
What I learned:
I learned that there are people in this world that you can trust and can't trust. If you know someone well, and suddenly you can't trust them but they say 'you can trust me' then you should trust that person no matter what circumstance they're in.
Character or setting that was interesting and why:
I personally thought that in this book, Ewart was an interesting character because he is generally someone who was trusted throughout the series, but due to his suspicious actions, he lost his trustworthy position. This was interesting for me as I felt sorry for him because Ewart always did things for other people and even though he did, people still didn't trust him.
I really enjoyed reading this book overall, just like the others in the series and I can't wait until I can read the next books.
At first I was a bit reluctant to read this novel because my friend said it was the saddest book in the series. However, I couldn't not read the book because then, I knew I wouldn't be able to carry on reading the rest of the series.
Category:
This book was part of the 'a book with a male main character' category. I think that this category was interesting for me because it was a male perspective, which made me realise that the think differently from a female/me.
Favourite quote and why:
My favourite quote from this book was from the scene where James (the main character) was trying to make up with his girlfriend and Kerry (the girlfriend) asked her friends around the table if she should accept his apology and "everyone started to laugh, and comments flew around the table ranging from 'kick his arse'* to 'marry him and get it over with'." because it showed me that people have different opinions and perspectives.
*sorry for the bad language
What I learned:
I learned that there are people in this world that you can trust and can't trust. If you know someone well, and suddenly you can't trust them but they say 'you can trust me' then you should trust that person no matter what circumstance they're in.
Character or setting that was interesting and why:
I personally thought that in this book, Ewart was an interesting character because he is generally someone who was trusted throughout the series, but due to his suspicious actions, he lost his trustworthy position. This was interesting for me as I felt sorry for him because Ewart always did things for other people and even though he did, people still didn't trust him.
I really enjoyed reading this book overall, just like the others in the series and I can't wait until I can read the next books.
July 13, 2016
Human trafficking is a global problem and one of the world's most shameful crimes which 'The Fall' concentrates on as Lauren's first solo mission. The book's main focus is the relationships between the different characters with Lauren (James' younger sister) paired off with the Russian girl Anna. James interaction with the other characters has expanded including training with Bruce Norris and red shirt Kevin Sumner as well as taking more interest in Dana Smith and starting an unexpected relationship. The story has a lot of turns that divert the characters on an emotion and physical level, especially mostly concentrated on the beginning with James unsuccessful mission in Aero City and Lauren's abduction to the hidden base of human trafficked girls. These changes of events particularly kept me reading on as the exciting pace intrigued me, thus why I finished this book in a matter of days. The book includes all the action, excitement and tense situations of the CHERUB series has to offer and even though some of predictions I thought went awry, it didn't go with what I expected.
James is now 15 and his focus was on his failed mission in Russia, but Lauren has the larger part of the plot with more focus on her, which Lauren didn't have as much in the last book 'Man Vs Beast'. It was also interesting to develop Ewart's character into negative light. As a mission controller we find out his secrets have secrets. An intelligence organisation that fears intelligence threatening James career in CHERUB. I enjoy and get excited whenever Robert Muchamore establishes continuity through the series such as Lauren's dislike for meat, reflecting on Kyle's homosexual nature and James now teaching a red shirt to conquer over fears by using tough kindness, similar to his experience of swimming in the 'The Recruit'.
The pacing of the story was good and was happy that finding information from Anna was kept short to avoid tedious story line. However, I did find James' birthday a bit slow paced. On the other the last few chapters especially the scene where different friends and personalities were fighting about James betrayal towards Kerry (even though I thought their relationship was solid) ended up as a classic food fight, which I found entertaining. My prediction for James' black shirt was going to contribute with helping Lauren's mission with the twist of events getting herself into a jam, however it was aiding Ewart from a near death which awarded him his prize of a black t-shirt, which I didn't see coming.
Overall the whole mysterious story was well written for a mixed variety of genres. This' book target audience is for teens mainly boys, but I believe this can be enjoyed by female teenagers as well. I enjoyed every single novel of the cherub series so far and would definitely recommended the whole series.
This is a book you can lost in and let hours pass and is the series that started me to read again. TRULY RECOMMEND.
James is now 15 and his focus was on his failed mission in Russia, but Lauren has the larger part of the plot with more focus on her, which Lauren didn't have as much in the last book 'Man Vs Beast'. It was also interesting to develop Ewart's character into negative light. As a mission controller we find out his secrets have secrets. An intelligence organisation that fears intelligence threatening James career in CHERUB. I enjoy and get excited whenever Robert Muchamore establishes continuity through the series such as Lauren's dislike for meat, reflecting on Kyle's homosexual nature and James now teaching a red shirt to conquer over fears by using tough kindness, similar to his experience of swimming in the 'The Recruit'.
The pacing of the story was good and was happy that finding information from Anna was kept short to avoid tedious story line. However, I did find James' birthday a bit slow paced. On the other the last few chapters especially the scene where different friends and personalities were fighting about James betrayal towards Kerry (even though I thought their relationship was solid) ended up as a classic food fight, which I found entertaining. My prediction for James' black shirt was going to contribute with helping Lauren's mission with the twist of events getting herself into a jam, however it was aiding Ewart from a near death which awarded him his prize of a black t-shirt, which I didn't see coming.
Overall the whole mysterious story was well written for a mixed variety of genres. This' book target audience is for teens mainly boys, but I believe this can be enjoyed by female teenagers as well. I enjoyed every single novel of the cherub series so far and would definitely recommended the whole series.
This is a book you can lost in and let hours pass and is the series that started me to read again. TRULY RECOMMEND.
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May 4, 2017Really good book throughout
February 2, 2024
honestly one of the worse ones,, james is just kinda a dick in this… like more than usual
January 21, 2022
Very intriguing and hooks from the first page.
March 24, 2022
0.5
!Spoilers!
This is the worst book I have ever read.
So far Cherub has been a pretty poor, if generally entertaining YA book series. Even by the already shockingly low standards, The Fall stands easily as the worst one. First of all, this series has literally no idea how to do character development. It's book Seven and James still acts like a baby and his behavior has become genuinely repulsive. He not only begs his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Kerry, for sex, but when she refuses, the book frames it like she's the one being difficult. The very next day, the little lover's spat is forgiven instantly, and James continues to be disgusting. At the end, he splits with Kerry by cheating with another girl, Dana, who instantly attracts James's attention by almost showing him her breasts. And when Kerry confronts them at the end of the book, it's STILL framed like James did nothing wrong and that he DESERVED a better girlfriend than Kerry. WTF?
James also acts like a selfish baby, since when his mission goes wrong, he is given news that he might be kicked out of Cherub, which apparently he is breaking apart thinking that over but we never actually get a substantial scene of him mulling it over. Instead, we get him bullying a kid's fear of heights away, so apparently bullying someone's fears away is a good moral to put in a kids book? WTF?
James then grows suspicious of one of his Cherub mission controllers and suspects he's pulling a fast one to get rid of James. So James launches a private investigation of his own to catch the controller in the act, but finds that he's innocent and saves his life in another "action" scene where luck is the overwhelming factor that earns James victory, god forbid we're actually shown James being a component agent. He is then rewarded for this and given an undeserved promotion, despite plenty of missions in past books being better examples of James "earning" his Black Shirt.
This adds up to 80% of the book while the rest is given to Lauren, and while she is my 2nd least favorite character, her mission could have been really interesting if it was given more than five or six chapters of relevancy. Most of the book is shenanigan's at campus with a sex-obsessed disgustingly shallow lead character that earns nothing he is given. What a role model.
Bottom line, this series is bad, but this is a new low. I could maybe forgive some of this nonsense if the book was actually fun to read. Usually, it's incredibly boring or has shockingly horrible dialogue. The way Muchamore writes the female characters is also disgusting, ranging from perverted descriptions of minors and having every relevant girl have nothing to do unless James is involved.
WTF?
!Spoilers!
This is the worst book I have ever read.
So far Cherub has been a pretty poor, if generally entertaining YA book series. Even by the already shockingly low standards, The Fall stands easily as the worst one. First of all, this series has literally no idea how to do character development. It's book Seven and James still acts like a baby and his behavior has become genuinely repulsive. He not only begs his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Kerry, for sex, but when she refuses, the book frames it like she's the one being difficult. The very next day, the little lover's spat is forgiven instantly, and James continues to be disgusting. At the end, he splits with Kerry by cheating with another girl, Dana, who instantly attracts James's attention by almost showing him her breasts. And when Kerry confronts them at the end of the book, it's STILL framed like James did nothing wrong and that he DESERVED a better girlfriend than Kerry. WTF?
James also acts like a selfish baby, since when his mission goes wrong, he is given news that he might be kicked out of Cherub, which apparently he is breaking apart thinking that over but we never actually get a substantial scene of him mulling it over. Instead, we get him bullying a kid's fear of heights away, so apparently bullying someone's fears away is a good moral to put in a kids book? WTF?
James then grows suspicious of one of his Cherub mission controllers and suspects he's pulling a fast one to get rid of James. So James launches a private investigation of his own to catch the controller in the act, but finds that he's innocent and saves his life in another "action" scene where luck is the overwhelming factor that earns James victory, god forbid we're actually shown James being a component agent. He is then rewarded for this and given an undeserved promotion, despite plenty of missions in past books being better examples of James "earning" his Black Shirt.
This adds up to 80% of the book while the rest is given to Lauren, and while she is my 2nd least favorite character, her mission could have been really interesting if it was given more than five or six chapters of relevancy. Most of the book is shenanigan's at campus with a sex-obsessed disgustingly shallow lead character that earns nothing he is given. What a role model.
Bottom line, this series is bad, but this is a new low. I could maybe forgive some of this nonsense if the book was actually fun to read. Usually, it's incredibly boring or has shockingly horrible dialogue. The way Muchamore writes the female characters is also disgusting, ranging from perverted descriptions of minors and having every relevant girl have nothing to do unless James is involved.
WTF?
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November 9, 2018
A great book to end the quarter with! One again, Robert Muchamore delivers another great addition to the CHERUB series. A great read that I enjoyed from start to finish.
March 20, 2019
I think the theme is good things come when you are patient. In the book James is waiting for something to come and when it does nothing bad happens.
August 5, 2023
If there’s one thing I will always give praise to this series, is that it gets teenage relationships right, in that their so stupid.
April 9, 2018
I like this book, but I think it needs more action. I like the starting when James was in Russia doing his mission until he got suspended, might’ve even got expelled. The highlights were when James was in Russia, Lauren on her first solo mission and when James was trying to uncover the truth. Others were his personal problems.
November 13, 2017
The overall storyline was rather interesting. Uncovering a human trafficking operation where people were selling orphans into the business was an interesting premise. But I digress, there were deep problems lying within this book.
James has always been an iffy character for me. He has shown both good and bad qualities throughout the series, but I thought that in the last few books that he had started to settle down. I thought that he had stopped floating from girl to girl and treating them all like trash in the last few books. However, it turns out that I was wrong.
Now he is 15 years old, and he has gone from floating from girl to girl to simply dating Kerry. On his belated 15th birthday party, he gets drunk, and tries to pressure Kerry into having sex with her. Kerry tells him no, and that if they are caught having sex before 16 that they could be kicked out of the CHERUBs. She is only 14 years old, so she also feels uncomfortable and too young. She leaves him in tears after he keeps trying to pressure her, and he goes to sleep alone and angry.
The next day, he wakes up only remorseful because she is mad at him, and simply presents a flower as his apology. She forgives him, and the story continues.
At this point, I was more than pissed at James. In no world, fantasy or real, is it okay for someone to try to pressure a girl into having sex. She said no, and he could have left it at that. Some may say that he was drunk and that this is realistic. However, Muchamore could have made Kerry break up with him completely. Instead, she just accepts it, as too many girls in real life do, and just gets back together with him. Kerry is supposed to be an amazingly strong and intelligent spy girl, but even she just gives in and gets back with her horrible boyfriend after he gives her a measly apology. How is this showing the kids who are reading this book at 11-15 years old that pressuring a girlfriend or boyfriend into having sex is not okay? There are never any consequences for James, things just bounce off of him and he goes on his merry way having a girlfriend.
Then, at the end of the book, he decides to make out with Dana. His sister catches him in the act, Dana with her shirt off, and says she will tell Kerry if James doesn't tell her. James is upset, not because his sister caught him and that his loving girlfriend is going to find out that he cheated on her, but that he didn't get a chance to feel Dana's chest. I was simply livid when I read this in the book, but I kept going because I wanted to find out Kerry's reaction to this.
Kerry confronted James and Dana in the cafeteria, and basically James just didn't care anymore and was just delighted in the fact that two girls were fighting over him. Dana knows of his cheating ways. He could cheat on her too, and she's a smart enough girl to realize this, but she goes along with him anyways. Kerry should have realized that he's not worth it, but she doesn't and instead fights with Dana. This starts a fun food fight in the cafeteria, with everyone just having a good time chucking food at each other.
Again, what kind of lesson is this supposed to teach? That it is okay to cheat on your girlfriend simply because she wouldn't have sex with you, and then tada you just get a new girlfriend who will have sex with you? I could not even believe that I was reading this in a book that was supposed for children.
Some people justify it saying that it isn't supposed to be for children. However, it is published by Hodder Children's and is classified as a Children's book on Amazon. If it is going to be a Children's book, then I am going to rate it as such, and this material is utterly inappropriate for one. Even if this was an adult book, I would still dislike James as a character, as I dislike his actions in general.
I want to finish this series, as there are only about 5 more books left in the series, but this book really shocked me.
James has always been an iffy character for me. He has shown both good and bad qualities throughout the series, but I thought that in the last few books that he had started to settle down. I thought that he had stopped floating from girl to girl and treating them all like trash in the last few books. However, it turns out that I was wrong.
Now he is 15 years old, and he has gone from floating from girl to girl to simply dating Kerry. On his belated 15th birthday party, he gets drunk, and tries to pressure Kerry into having sex with her. Kerry tells him no, and that if they are caught having sex before 16 that they could be kicked out of the CHERUBs. She is only 14 years old, so she also feels uncomfortable and too young. She leaves him in tears after he keeps trying to pressure her, and he goes to sleep alone and angry.
The next day, he wakes up only remorseful because she is mad at him, and simply presents a flower as his apology. She forgives him, and the story continues.
At this point, I was more than pissed at James. In no world, fantasy or real, is it okay for someone to try to pressure a girl into having sex. She said no, and he could have left it at that. Some may say that he was drunk and that this is realistic. However, Muchamore could have made Kerry break up with him completely. Instead, she just accepts it, as too many girls in real life do, and just gets back together with him. Kerry is supposed to be an amazingly strong and intelligent spy girl, but even she just gives in and gets back with her horrible boyfriend after he gives her a measly apology. How is this showing the kids who are reading this book at 11-15 years old that pressuring a girlfriend or boyfriend into having sex is not okay? There are never any consequences for James, things just bounce off of him and he goes on his merry way having a girlfriend.
Then, at the end of the book, he decides to make out with Dana. His sister catches him in the act, Dana with her shirt off, and says she will tell Kerry if James doesn't tell her. James is upset, not because his sister caught him and that his loving girlfriend is going to find out that he cheated on her, but that he didn't get a chance to feel Dana's chest. I was simply livid when I read this in the book, but I kept going because I wanted to find out Kerry's reaction to this.
Kerry confronted James and Dana in the cafeteria, and basically James just didn't care anymore and was just delighted in the fact that two girls were fighting over him. Dana knows of his cheating ways. He could cheat on her too, and she's a smart enough girl to realize this, but she goes along with him anyways. Kerry should have realized that he's not worth it, but she doesn't and instead fights with Dana. This starts a fun food fight in the cafeteria, with everyone just having a good time chucking food at each other.
Again, what kind of lesson is this supposed to teach? That it is okay to cheat on your girlfriend simply because she wouldn't have sex with you, and then tada you just get a new girlfriend who will have sex with you? I could not even believe that I was reading this in a book that was supposed for children.
Some people justify it saying that it isn't supposed to be for children. However, it is published by Hodder Children's and is classified as a Children's book on Amazon. If it is going to be a Children's book, then I am going to rate it as such, and this material is utterly inappropriate for one. Even if this was an adult book, I would still dislike James as a character, as I dislike his actions in general.
I want to finish this series, as there are only about 5 more books left in the series, but this book really shocked me.
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October 9, 2018The best books are books that can relate to real life. In the book “Cherub the Fall” by Robert Muchamore, he gets the reader to really think about the problems with the world.
I was wishing a lot of things while reading the book Cherub The Fall. One thing I wished was that I could live the life of James Adams. I would want to live his life, because he gets to go on all of these secret missions for the government. Although sometimes he gets hurt in these missions, but the missions that he goes on sound very exciting and fun. In this book, he goes on a mission in Russia. He got trapped in Russia and almost died, but he made it back to Cherub. He also, saved their mission controller from a murder and he earned a black shirt. James Adam’s life seems so interesting.
While reading the book I realized that the world isn’t perfect. Although that this is a fictional book, however there are some parts that I could relate to the real world. When James’s sister Lauren goes on a mission, it reminded me of the real world. Lauren went on a mission for human trafficking and prostitution of children. When I was reading this part of the book, it reminded me that in some places in the world these things actually go on. Some parts reminded me that there are still problems with the world.
The book had me wondering about actually developing a real life spy program that is made for kids. It would be easy to take kids from foster homes and train them to be spies. Kid spies are better than adult spies, because they are less suspicious. No one would suspect a kid being a spy so, it would be harder for them to get caught. However, it would be a dangerous job and the kids wouldn’t be forced to do it. The book had me wondering, what if we could actually make this a real thing?
Reading the book made me see how well written the book was. I saw how the author wrote a fictional story and made it seem so real. By the way the way everything happened, and by the way he wrote it, it actually felt real. From all of the missions that James and Lauren went on, the author never failed to keep me interested. By the way the book was written, it made me want to keep on reading.
At first the book made me believe that everything was going downhill. At least one thing was happening to every character. James almost died on his mission, and Lauren got captured. James cheated on Kerry with Dana and James getting suspended from missions. Bad things were happening everywhere. But in the end, everything started to get better.
I felt many different ways throughout the book. There were some sad parts but there were also some exciting parts. I was eager to find out what happened when James got captured, but I was felt bad for Kerry when she found out the James cheated on her. I was happy in the end, when James and Dana both received a black shirt, the highest ranking of the kids. I was fearful when James got beat up by the skateboarders, and when Lauren got captured. This book made me feel different ways at different times.
This book made me hope that there was another book after. Whenever I read one of these books, as soon as I’m done, I want to start reading the next book straight after. After the end of each book, the author always gives the reader something to think about. I would recommend this book to every reader. It is a action packed book that will always keep you on your toes.
I was wishing a lot of things while reading the book Cherub The Fall. One thing I wished was that I could live the life of James Adams. I would want to live his life, because he gets to go on all of these secret missions for the government. Although sometimes he gets hurt in these missions, but the missions that he goes on sound very exciting and fun. In this book, he goes on a mission in Russia. He got trapped in Russia and almost died, but he made it back to Cherub. He also, saved their mission controller from a murder and he earned a black shirt. James Adam’s life seems so interesting.
While reading the book I realized that the world isn’t perfect. Although that this is a fictional book, however there are some parts that I could relate to the real world. When James’s sister Lauren goes on a mission, it reminded me of the real world. Lauren went on a mission for human trafficking and prostitution of children. When I was reading this part of the book, it reminded me that in some places in the world these things actually go on. Some parts reminded me that there are still problems with the world.
The book had me wondering about actually developing a real life spy program that is made for kids. It would be easy to take kids from foster homes and train them to be spies. Kid spies are better than adult spies, because they are less suspicious. No one would suspect a kid being a spy so, it would be harder for them to get caught. However, it would be a dangerous job and the kids wouldn’t be forced to do it. The book had me wondering, what if we could actually make this a real thing?
Reading the book made me see how well written the book was. I saw how the author wrote a fictional story and made it seem so real. By the way the way everything happened, and by the way he wrote it, it actually felt real. From all of the missions that James and Lauren went on, the author never failed to keep me interested. By the way the book was written, it made me want to keep on reading.
At first the book made me believe that everything was going downhill. At least one thing was happening to every character. James almost died on his mission, and Lauren got captured. James cheated on Kerry with Dana and James getting suspended from missions. Bad things were happening everywhere. But in the end, everything started to get better.
I felt many different ways throughout the book. There were some sad parts but there were also some exciting parts. I was eager to find out what happened when James got captured, but I was felt bad for Kerry when she found out the James cheated on her. I was happy in the end, when James and Dana both received a black shirt, the highest ranking of the kids. I was fearful when James got beat up by the skateboarders, and when Lauren got captured. This book made me feel different ways at different times.
This book made me hope that there was another book after. Whenever I read one of these books, as soon as I’m done, I want to start reading the next book straight after. After the end of each book, the author always gives the reader something to think about. I would recommend this book to every reader. It is a action packed book that will always keep you on your toes.
September 11, 2008
Totally loved the on-campus aspect of this one. As a lover of boarding school stories, I've been a little frustrated with previous books by the lack of campus time we get, and this went a long way to rectifying that.
Fired off all sorts of inspiration for how Cherub could link in with Spooks and The Bill (can you see Reg trying to deal with Cherub? He'd totally work out what was going on and everyone else would declare "conspiracy theory".) Lauren, and the brother-sister relationship between her and James continues to be fabulous. I still dislike James, especially his attitude to girls (*so* on Lauren's side there) and I really dislike the direction its currently taken with Dana. (Although I think I like Dana herself. Just not Dana/James. Probably because Kerry is clearly hurt (as she should be) and thus I am on Kerry's side.)
Fired off all sorts of inspiration for how Cherub could link in with Spooks and The Bill (can you see Reg trying to deal with Cherub? He'd totally work out what was going on and everyone else would declare "conspiracy theory".) Lauren, and the brother-sister relationship between her and James continues to be fabulous. I still dislike James, especially his attitude to girls (*so* on Lauren's side there) and I really dislike the direction its currently taken with Dana. (Although I think I like Dana herself. Just not Dana/James. Probably because Kerry is clearly hurt (as she should be) and thus I am on Kerry's side.)
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September 10, 2013
In the book The Fall by Robert Muchamore, James Adams has almost been killed undercover in Russia and now he might be kicked of the organization he works for. James is a part of a secret British organization called Cherub, it is made up of smart orphan kids, who can go undercover to gain information for the British government. James thinks that an ex-Cherub is trying to kick him out of Cherub, so James must follow the ex-Cherub to catch him in the act of working with the wrong people. I think the author wanted to understand that you should follow your senses, even if people don't believe you.
I thought this book had a good storyline, but at times it was a bit confusing at times. Overall I thought this was a great book and I would read it again.
I thought this book had a good storyline, but at times it was a bit confusing at times. Overall I thought this was a great book and I would read it again.
May 30, 2015
James Adams is in Russia on a mission when something goes terribly wrong. Nobody knows if he'll make it out alive. Meanwhile, Lauren is on her first solo mission trying to uncover a human-trafficking agency. She has always been brave, but this mission is scaring her. She wants to make sure that nobody gets hurt. But when she was so close to getting the victim safe, something horrible happens. Lauren has a plan that will almost certainly go as planned. But when she gets a pat-down, Lauren only has one way of getting out. So she decides to do the unthinkable. When her 'plan B' goes as planned , something horrible happens. The Fall is about believing in yourself, breaking boundaries, and injustice.
June 27, 2020
My last beach read! I’m so happy I read this because it’s been like 2 years since I read the last book in this series (these books are episodic though, so I was totally fine), and they’re just so fun and smart. And SUCH quick and easy reads. Robert Muchamore’s writing is smoooooth.
As always, James is a D I C K but I had the realization while reading this that I actually really enjoy following him. I think that his ignorance and arrogance make for an interesting protagonist (especially because everyone is always giving him shit lol), instead of having a protagonist that is super kind, which I feel like is more cliche. I also love following Lauren as well! Her and James’s sibling bond is genuinely heart-warming.
I hope to pick up the next book in NOT 2 years this time lol
As always, James is a D I C K but I had the realization while reading this that I actually really enjoy following him. I think that his ignorance and arrogance make for an interesting protagonist (especially because everyone is always giving him shit lol), instead of having a protagonist that is super kind, which I feel like is more cliche. I also love following Lauren as well! Her and James’s sibling bond is genuinely heart-warming.
I hope to pick up the next book in NOT 2 years this time lol
September 8, 2016
Robert Muchamore é sem dúvida o escritor perfeito para pequenos leitores que gostam de aventuras. Os livros são viciantes e têm sempre alguma novidade.
Este 7º livro da saga não se foca na missão, mas no pós missão e é isso que nos traz de novo. Os protagonistas estão mais velhos e, por isso, têm mais responsabilidades - mas nem por isso deixam de ser aventureiros e meter-se em asneiras.
Gostei mesmo muito deste livro!
Este 7º livro da saga não se foca na missão, mas no pós missão e é isso que nos traz de novo. Os protagonistas estão mais velhos e, por isso, têm mais responsabilidades - mas nem por isso deixam de ser aventureiros e meter-se em asneiras.
Gostei mesmo muito deste livro!
December 28, 2016
I don't think this book is for the kids. The complexity and epicness is off the charts. Dana is epic.
December 18, 2018
James is still an annoying sex-obsessed cliche and it is a recurring theme in this book, but these moments are dropped in through the book so can be ignored.
The novel merges a number of strands. James is caught in a difficult position when he is stranded in Russia after the operation he is on goes wrong. Thinking on his feet he manages to escape the clutches of a Russian gang leader and, thanks to the intervention of a CIA agent who admired his earlier work, James lives to fight another day.
Lauren, meanwhile, gets caught up in a sex-trafficking mission. Of necessity there are some unpleasant details here, but Lauren manages to engineer her escape before anything too awful happens.
Alongside this we have an investigation into corruption at the highest levels, but this is punctuated with a few too many teenage spats.
The novel merges a number of strands. James is caught in a difficult position when he is stranded in Russia after the operation he is on goes wrong. Thinking on his feet he manages to escape the clutches of a Russian gang leader and, thanks to the intervention of a CIA agent who admired his earlier work, James lives to fight another day.
Lauren, meanwhile, gets caught up in a sex-trafficking mission. Of necessity there are some unpleasant details here, but Lauren manages to engineer her escape before anything too awful happens.
Alongside this we have an investigation into corruption at the highest levels, but this is punctuated with a few too many teenage spats.
February 4, 2020
I absolutely love the Robert muchamore books he's got a such a way with words what make you want to read and read and read his books and get so engrossed with them this is the 7 in the cherub series Lauren James sister is on her first solo mission James is on a mission in Russia his mission goes horribly wrong because that mission went horribly wrong James is not allowed to go on missions anymore and has to stay at the cherub campus he might not even be a Cherub anymore this was a brilliant book with twists and Turns all over the place such a good read
March 2, 2022
I have never picked up a book series and have been so amazed by words on paper. Robert Muchamore has a serious skill for making you feel as if you are standing right in the middle of these stories.
I originally had never heard of this series or the author. But an acquaintance told me about them and I read what they were about and immediately ordered the 12 book box set off of Amazon. And now I am hooked. And what's more, there are 5 more books! I can hardly contain myself!
The Fall is another Robert Muchamore book that you will plough through without even realising how much you have read and at that stage you will realise you're done.
I originally had never heard of this series or the author. But an acquaintance told me about them and I read what they were about and immediately ordered the 12 book box set off of Amazon. And now I am hooked. And what's more, there are 5 more books! I can hardly contain myself!
The Fall is another Robert Muchamore book that you will plough through without even realising how much you have read and at that stage you will realise you're done.
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January 5, 2019I like the later books because the main characters get older, but also because Muchamore becomes a bit more creative with the missions and characters. In this one, James has a mission go wrong and then Lauren gets her own, interesting, solo mission
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June 7, 2019This book is a crime story which mainly revolves around two missions. The first one goes horribly wrong as James Adams has to use his skills to get out of a M15 mission in Russia. Meanwhile Lauren ( James’ sister) is human trafficked for sex for another mission. I like this book because it is very intense as there is lot of action and the start with a mission is very interesting and hooks you to the book at an instant. I would recommend to teenagers as it has some sensitive content.
May 1, 2019
It was a really good book and I enjoyed its intense moments that left you eager to read on and on it also actually focused on important real life problems like human trafficking only thing lacking a bit was the ending which for such a good book was a bit anti climatic.
October 15, 2019
Barndomsminner 😍
December 28, 2024
Finally 🌝🌝 this book makes me want to keep reading the story - there was no trace of the usual repetitive campus-mission-return pattern this time. Hopefully, the next ones won’t disappoint 🤞🏻
September 4, 2025
il a enfin quitté cette tana de kerry!!!!!!!!
March 8, 2021
In this book, James is in Russia and get betrayed by his MI5 teammates and almost dies. then he goes under investigation for ruining the mission even though the two other agents were corrupt. He then tails Ewart (who is in charge of the investigation) and ends up saving his life, and getting a black shirt for it.
January 28, 2024
Getting darker. Still hating the protagonist but enjoying the series.
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