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Imperial Spy by: Mark Robson List Price: £6.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.24 You Save: £1.75 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781416901853 ISBN: 141690185X Label: Simon & Schuster Children's Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: February 06, 2006 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Studio: Simon & Schuster Children's Sales Rank: 45042 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: Femke, a gifted and resourceful young spy, is entrusted with a vital foreign mission by the Emperor. Her adversary, Shalidar, frames Femke with responsibility for two murders while she is visiting their neighbouring court. Femke is isolated in an alien country, being pursued both by her enemies and by the authorities. Only her side-kick, Reynik, a young military trainee, can help. Together, they must outwit the evil assassin Shalidar and prove Femke's innocence so they can complete the imperial mission. This is the first in a new series. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Mark Robson, man of many talents...Brilliant Book. Met the man himself, a fascinating guy, signed my copy for me! Highly recommended easy-to-read fantasy / adventure style. Aimed at children, but I'm 19 at university and I loved it! Doesn't give the plot away in the first 20 pages which is nice, features a female lead which works brilliantly. Something a bit different from what you might expect from this type of read, makes a nice change! I am looking forward to his second in this series, which I just bought today! Rating: - FabulousGot gripped by the book which has persuaded me to by the rest of the series Rating:  - Not bad...Although this is far from the greatest book in the world I did enjoy it. There are plenty of problems with it (poor characterisation, particuarly early on, it's packed full of cliches, fomrulaic plot), yet it does have a certain appeal if you're looking for a McFantasy novel that you don't have to think about to much. In many ways Robson doesn't bring much to the fantasy genre here. It's all very familair (apart from the odd absence of magic that is mentioned but never really used???). However, one of the interesting things he does it to mix the fantasy conventions with those of a spy novel and at times this does produce interesting results. I'm undecided if I will read the next one in the series...but I probably will! Rating: - Just read it!My 10 year old passed this book to me, and I read it while I travelled, peeled the tatties, on my knee at work... It's a real fantasy romp with a strong female heroine, so it reminded me of Holly Short in Artemis Fowl meets the Die Hard movies (MR really puts his characters in tight corners). There is a humdinger of a close-the-book-and-can't-read-on in stunned disbelief moment- just fab! Haven't read the first quartet, but will now. Rating: - Imperial SpyI read this book with my son who is 9 and a fairly reluctant reader. It was fun, exciting very readable and absolutely gripping. I've subsequently been buying it for all his friends as birthday presents. It has the same unputdownable quality as the Alex Rider books although the vocabulary is more difficult. We both really enjoyed it and are about to start the sequel. |
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