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The Sleepwalker (CHERUB) | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Muchamore
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 852
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0340931833
EAN: 9780340931837
ASIN: 0340931833
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
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 BIG disappointment - this will not win over new fans November 14, 2008
OJacks (England)
Robert Muchamore usually delivers - until now! The first in the Cherub series, The Recruit, had me hooked on the adventures of child spy James Adams and his sister, Lauren.
But now for the first time the Cherub series has failed to compete with the other big spy book series - Alex Rider, Young James Bond, Jimmy Coates.
I feel very let down by The Sleepwalker. Muchamore usually creates believable and likeable characters, characters you invest your emotions in - or at least he tries. In The Sleepwalker, however, he dwells less on the people and more on the action, but even that is poorly executed.
His characters become cartoon-like, one-dimensional - with no real depth to them. The story within The Sleepwalker is also lacking. Although the book enjoys a tense and exciting opening chapter, it rapidly descends into a fiasco of plot and tedious training exercise sequences.
The success of the Cherub series, for me, was that you could 'just about' believe that a spy school for orphan kids was plausible. But I found the plot of The Sleepwalker too ridiculous to swallow. Perhaps Muchamore is running out of ideas, perhaps he was working to a tight deadline and had to rush things. Whatever the problem, this book is certainly the weakest link in the Cherub chain. I expected much, much more of Muchamore - but the hype surrounding the release of this book turned out to be much ado about nothing!
I know many other fans who feel the same way. Muchamore should stop trying to compete with Anthony Horowitz, Charlie Higson and Joe Craig, and just go back to doing his own thing in his original style.
 The Sleepwalker May 29, 2008
Dr. Simon K. S. Lam
The Sleepwalker by Robert Muchamore is a gripping novel telling the story of James Adams, the heroic yet lazy teenage spy and his friends. The novel is aimed at young adults who enjoy action thrillers and intoxicating suspense. The novel has a mix of fantasy and reality but in all is very believable.
The story is about a young boy named Fahim who calls the police reporting that it was his father who caused a recent aeroplane crash. James' sister is called into befriend Fahim and find out the truth.
The book is a good read for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it is the story of every teenagers dream. Armed with lock picks and listening bugs the teenage spies are the one way to find the truth because no adult ever suspects a child.
Also, the books aren't too unrealistic. Underneath all the agents are all teenagers and have the same desires. Unlike Alex Rider, the agents make mistakes and in the end all they really care about is who's going out with who.
The book is almost flawless and the only negativity one can think of is that the book moves at such an astonishing pace you cannot keep up and may lose the plot.
I think that I personally enjoyed the book because it managed to merge typical teenager with heroic super spy. This combination proved to be very affective. The book affected me by making me wish that I too was a CHERUB (the agency that James and his friends work for) agent and shared all their gadgets and skills.
I think that this is an almost perfect read and I definitely recommend it to any reader, especially to anyone in their teenage years.
Another Epic Novel by Robert Muchomore May 15, 2008
Matt G (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
James is in trouble again on Cherub Campus. He's got to do work experience and he's hoping it's all to do with motorbikes. But it the opposite of what he wanted to and who he wanted to work with. Meanwhile a plane has crashed into the Atlantic. A distressed boy rings the terrorist hotline. The fear in his voice must mean something but what? The boy's call is classed as a category grade 4 (Prank call). Mac's children were among those who died in the plane crash. He's back at cherub going through the calls and comes across this one. Lauren and Jake have to work together on finding out if the boy's right. But there are two problems. Firstly the boy has a history of emotional problems and violence. Secondly, Jake and Lauren hate each other! Read this amazing book and find out what happens.
Go Lauren! April 4, 2008
Caroline Lawrence (London, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Robert Muchamore's latest CHERUB thriller is as gripping and exciting as all his previous books. I stayed up till 2.00am to finish this one. I especially love the fact that James' 13-year-old sister Lauren is becoming an active, resourceful and brave agent. Yay. Girl power.
 good but it doesnt half annoy me March 26, 2008
John Duffy (uk)
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
i have read all the cherub books and i am not knocking them as a good, teenage book that most would find as a lighthearted easy read. However, i can't escape the fact that everytime i read the books i am constantly infuriated by the charcters descriptions and personality's. Muchamore makes such a fuss of trying to make 'james adams' the idol for teenager constantly hammering home how good looking he is and never ending success with women. frankly, it becomes annoying and seems as though muchamore is trying to represent what he thought he was when he was in his teens. The style 'james adams' adopts such as tracksuit bottoms to skater clothes once again annoys me as its complete lack of depth shows just how unaware muchamore is of current styles and fashions.
Further more, the character of lauren adams also gets to me as, like james, she is given no floors and is a very bascic representation of a girl in her early teens. All in all, yes i do enjoy reading cherub books for what they are and that is a easy read but the obvious 'brown nosing' relationship Muchamore has with his characters makes me very angry. The sunday times quotes : 'punchy, exiting and whats more you'll completely wish it was true'. Well yes i would like it if it was true so i could go kick james's and his little chums heads in.
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