Series: A Crusoe Adventure
Age group: 10 - 14
Page count: 320 pages
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Summary from Amazon:
Rescued from a deserted Caribbean island, 17-year-old Robinson Crusoe and his female friend, Friday, find themselves in late 1600s London, a bustling city that proves as treacherous for them to navigate as the remote island they just left behind. Thanks to their honed survival skills, Crusoe and Friday are recruited by a young writer named Daniel Defoe to work as agents for Segment W, a covert spy group that reports directly to the Crown.
Crusoe, Friday, and Defoe must rescue the Countess of Lichfield from a kidnapping plot. They discover that a mystical and mysterious organization known as the Circle of Thirteen is plotting to destroy Segment W and change the course of history through a royal kidnapping.
With an illustrious cast of historical characters including King Charles II and Sir Isaac Newton, Dawn of Spies is the first installment of a series that thrusts a young Robinson Crusoe into a new world of espionage, intrigue, and peril.
Why I like Dawn of Spies:
- There's adventure and action, duels, "covert spy groups", attacks on castles... The cover really defines it so well.
- There's so much mystery! We don't know very much, and with Crusoe not having been in London for a long time, it's new to him. But with the secret groups and villains, it's definitely intriguing!
- The plot and the setting. Occasionally (for the setting), we go back a bit to when Friday and Crusoe were on the Caribbean island. But then we go back to London. As for the plot, I didn't expect anything that happened! In the end, we're left with a cliffhanger that makes me eager/desperate for the next book!
- Another thing I liked about Dawn of Spies was Crusoe and Friday's remarkable friendship. They look out for each other in London, and they can tell what the other wants (like empathy, I guess, or what they want to do.)
I give this book an eight out of ten! It's remarkably well described and enjoyable.
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Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of The Ascendance Trilogy and other great books is having a huge summer giveaway at her blog! And, the cover for Wrath of the Storm, last book in the Mark of the Thief Trilogy, has been revealed (thank goodness!) Click the button below to go to her website, and click the button below it to go to Shannon Messenger's, the wonderful hostess of MMGM, website.
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Bye,
Vi