Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.
So what do you need to do to join in?
- Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
- Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
- Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
- Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it's on your wishlist.
- Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of this post.
- Put a link back to pen to paper (http://www.pentopaperblog.com) somewhere in your post, and a note saying that Pen to Paper is the host of the meme.
- Visit the other blogs and enjoy!
by Robert Muchamore
Synopsis:
Number 1 bestselling series, CHERUB celebrates its 10th Anniversary with brand new covers!
Now is your chance to start right back at the beginning with The Recruit.
A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB.
CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.
For official purposes, these children do not exist.
The Recruit has also been selected for World Book Night 2014
Now is your chance to start right back at the beginning with The Recruit.
A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB.
CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.
For official purposes, these children do not exist.
The Recruit has also been selected for World Book Night 2014
I see Robert Muchamore's books all the time, and I even own a signed copy of his new book, Rock War. And yet, this is the first book in one of his hugely popular series, we always have it in stock at work, and I see it around all the time, and yet I still haven't managed to pick up a copy and read it for myself.
Fortunately, a friend of mine is a World Book Night giver for this book this year, so we shall be trading WBN books and I will have a copy! Looking forward to being able to read it.
What's on your wishlist this week? Let us know in the comments below, or link to your own Wishlist Wednesday post in the Linky :)
As it's World Book Night today in the UK, and I am a giver for The Humans by Matt Haig, I decided to get in contact with the publishers of this wonderful book, and they have supplied one paperback copy of the book, on top of my WBN books, to give away on Pen to Paper in celebration of this fantastic bookish event!
Here's what's up for grabs:
Series: None
Pages: 304
Publisher: Canongate
Release date: 3rd April 2014 (paperback)
Buy: Book Depository | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones
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Pages: 304
Publisher: Canongate
Release date: 3rd April 2014 (paperback)
Buy: Book Depository | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones
Add to GoodreadsMy Review
Goodreads synopsis:
The critically acclaimed author of The Radleys shares a clever, heartwarming, and darkly insightful novel about an alien who comes to Earth to save humans from themselves.
“I was not Professor Andrew Martin. That is the first thing I should say. He was just a role. A disguise. Someone I needed to be in order to complete a task.”
The narrator of this tale is no ordinary human—in fact, he’s not human at all. Before he was sent away from the distant planet he calls home, precision and perfection governed his life. He lived in a utopian society where mathematics transformed a people, creating limitless knowledge and immortality.
But all of this is suddenly threatened when an earthly being opens the doorway to the same technology that the alien planet possesses. Cambridge University professor Andrew Martin cracks the Reimann Hypothesis and unknowingly puts himself and his family in grave danger when the narrator is sent to Earth to erase all evidence of the solution and kill anyone who has seen the proof. The only catch: the alien has no idea what he’s up against.
Disgusted by the excess of disease, violence, and family strife he encounters, the narrator struggles to pass undetected long enough to gain access to Andrew’s research. But in picking up the pieces of the professor’s shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans’ imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there.
“I was not Professor Andrew Martin. That is the first thing I should say. He was just a role. A disguise. Someone I needed to be in order to complete a task.”
The narrator of this tale is no ordinary human—in fact, he’s not human at all. Before he was sent away from the distant planet he calls home, precision and perfection governed his life. He lived in a utopian society where mathematics transformed a people, creating limitless knowledge and immortality.
But all of this is suddenly threatened when an earthly being opens the doorway to the same technology that the alien planet possesses. Cambridge University professor Andrew Martin cracks the Reimann Hypothesis and unknowingly puts himself and his family in grave danger when the narrator is sent to Earth to erase all evidence of the solution and kill anyone who has seen the proof. The only catch: the alien has no idea what he’s up against.
Disgusted by the excess of disease, violence, and family strife he encounters, the narrator struggles to pass undetected long enough to gain access to Andrew’s research. But in picking up the pieces of the professor’s shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans’ imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there.
- You do not have to be a follower of Pen to Paper to enter, unless you enter for the extra entry where this is a requirement.
- Although I try to make my giveaways international, this giveaway is UK only – sorry to my international followers, but I have to pay for the postage myself, and it's pricey sending things abroad! Sorry!
- If you decide to opt for the extra entries, please make sure that you do complete each of the entry requirements.
- I use Rafflecopter to keep your details safe, so please make sure you use it and don't leave any personal information in the comments.
- The giveaway ends on May 10th 2014.
Right! All you need to do now is get yourself entered in the Rafflecopter below... Good luck and happy reading! :)
3 comments:
I love the Cherub series! I don't think I ever read the first book, but the others are great. I hope you get it soon. :)
Sounds very interesting. Never heard of before but it's on my TBR now. Thanks for the share!
-Amanda @ Escaping Reality Within Pages
Goof luck to everyone, really want to read this!
Lainy http://www.alwaysreading.net
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