The first time I read this an easy five stars. Rereading I think I have to remove one star. It was good but not that good. I don't know. I'm older now and the relationships within this series - I just find them disturbing on a number of levels. The adults act like children. The children act like children. I just don't understand how this operation runs. There's so much violence. And I love violence, I really do. But this is disturbing violence. Every second word out of every person's mouth is about belting someone. None of the characters seem to like each other or hold any sort of respect for each other.

The action was good. But I'm having a bit of a read of a reading slump and I feel like I should remove a star. Or half a star. It's really four and a half. Maybe a bit more. I just couldn't quite get into it, although under normal circumstances I would've loved it. And have loved it. I've read this quite a few times. I'm going to leave it at five stars, but please note this read through wasn't quite five. ( )

...the one where they go to Vegas and cheat the casinos. Or at least, that's the part I remember.

Cherub is a branch of British Intelligence. Agents are children aged between 10-17 who are orphans. They live together in a special facility and are used because children are often not suspected of doing high level undercover missions. In this novel the cherub agent are in the USA taking part in a simulated war game and terrorist attack. Under the leadership of Kazakov, they cause havoc and get the upper hand in the game. It ends with an exciting tour of a casino where Kazakov and one of the Cherubs walk away with a lot of money thanks to the technology at their disposal.
Good for junior class. Uses accessible language for teens. Easy to read ( )

Book Recommendation of Robert Muchamore’s The General by Jeron Lek Year 7
The General is part of The Cherub Series. It came out in 2008 and is the 10th book in the series. The Cherub Series is about a secret organisation called Cherub which uses kids aged 10-17 to work undercover. Most Cherub agents are orphans who have been taken out of care homes and they are trained to work undercover. They live on Cherub campus, which is a secret facility hidden in the English countryside.
The genre of this book is action and young adult spy fiction.
In The General, James, Kazakov, Lauren and a couple of their friends go to the largest urban warfare training compound in the world which is in a desert near Las Vegas. It is run by the US Army and British Special Forces and the Cherub agents are going to be in a massive war game up against American Troops doing urban warfare training. They are going to help train the American army by pretending to be rebels and going up against them.
I really enjoyed The General because it is filled with action and I was never bored whilst reading it. It has some funny and serious parts in it, which made it really enjoyable to read. It described really well what the characters where going through and made it really easy to picture it in your mind. I recommend this book to kids/teenagers over the age of 12.

this is an exciting book great for people who like action and there is a bit of romance in it to. It is about a secret agent school for kids under the age of 18 and they go on missions all around the world and get into trouble ( )