World Book Night 2014: The Recruit by Robert Muchamore {review & giveaway} *closed

This is my 3rd year as a World Book Night giver.

I have mentioned before that I have a love affair with books. I have this idea in my head that books have answers to questions we would have never thought to ask.

I have found a whole community of people who enjoy reading, but I also encounter those who say they don’t. There are others who would like to read more, but have other priorities.

The whole point of World Book Night is to target those in the later group(s).

This year I was given The Recruit (a CHERUB novel) by Robert Muchamore. It’s the first in a series about a young man who at first gets into a bit of trouble only to be recruited into a top-secret branch of the government.

I hadn't read the book before I collected my box of books from a local library. So, before I gave them out I had a read.

It’s very cleverly written and entertaining for most ages, starting from about 10 years old! It kept me reading late into the night! I really enjoyed the main character and might have to see how he gets on in the following books - there are a total of 12!


On the day of World Book Night (23, April) I took just over a third of my books on the school run. I gave them to parents to read and to parents who I knew had a pre-teen or young adult at home who needed to be encouraged to read.

I also gave a couple of copies to my English teacher friends to share with students they thought might need encouragement to read more.

And I have one copy left to share with my United Cakedom readers!

Follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter and one reader will be chosen by random! As World Book Night has “world” in it, entries can be from anywhere!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Please share this giveaway with someone who doesn't read a lot and encourage them to enter! Or just enter for them! Or if you can't wait that long go find your self a copy! 


Oh, I almost forgot! All the World Book Night books include a recommendation from the author! Plus more resources on other books and World Book Night! Also a bonus when you've just finished a great book and don't know where to look next!

notes: Check out the official UK & Ireland World Book Night page if you are interested in being a giver next year or for more information. These books were provided by The Reading Agency for World Book Night and I was chosen as a giver. Please see my contact/policy page for further information. Check out my past World Book Nights here & here. I place this competition on Prizefinder: Win competitions at ThePrizeFinder.com

66 comments:

  1. I have just finished reading Crash Into You By Loren Roni

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  2. 12 Years a Slave, last week

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  3. I'm currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird again :) x

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  4. flowers in the attic, virginia andrews

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  5. I am in the middle of an advance copy of Celt - The Journey of Kyle Gibbs (and signed!) by Wayne Marinovich - It's an action adventure and very good and captivating.
    I got this from goodreads - a very good website
    Spencer Broadley
    s.broad@hotmail.co.uk

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  6. Currently reading worst case by james patterson

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  7. Charmian Filewood2 May 2014 at 11:40

    Just finished rereading Stephen King - The Stand, last read it when I was 16 in hospital getting my tonsils out lol x

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  8. Blood brothers. J Cox. On holiday last November

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  9. Zoe Wilkinson2 May 2014 at 14:36

    The Target - David Baldacci

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  10. Rebecca Gransden2 May 2014 at 14:43

    The Verdict by Nick Stone

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  11. I'm very near the end of one flew over the cuckoo's nest. It's one I'd like to share.

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  12. Nigel Greaves2 May 2014 at 15:41

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar (to my granddaughter!)

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  13. A TOWN LIKE ALICE BY NEVILLE SHUTE

    KATHY D

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  14. I recently finished The Fall by Claire McGowan, awesome crime whodunnit story!

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  15. a couple of months ago the great gatsby

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  16. flowers in the attic , a month ago it was great x

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  17. James Darrington2 May 2014 at 19:10

    I've just finished reading Dune the collected edition. Fantastic read for a sci-fi fan, I'm surprised it's taken me this long to finally get round to reading it.

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  18. great expectations , Dickens

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  19. street cat called bob
    lisa ann tebbutt

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  20. Last week I finished Notorious Nineteen, by Janet Evanovich

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  21. doctor sleep a few weeks ago :)

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  22. I have just started the Shining!! I was reading the Shining Girls and my Grandad thought it was the Shining and then I seen it on offer on Priority rewards so thought it was a sign for my next book to read :)

    Becci Cleary

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  23. Flowers in the attic by Virginia Andrews. Reading it for a second time!

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  24. Pamela says - Brian Freyermuth's 'Demon Dance' ... still reading it!

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  25. I finished reading Seven Years to Sin by Sylvia Day a couple of weeks ago. Before that i read Fifty Shades solely because of how everyone was swooning over it like mad.. I thought it was rubbish lol. Came across Sylvia Day because she writes the same kind of genre and is SOO much better! I'm not working my way through her other titles =)

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  26. Secretariat. Finished last night.

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  27. Just finished yesterday, Thirteen Days to Midnight, Patrick Carman

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  29. Blood Sisters by Sarah Gristwood, finished this morning

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  30. Curse the Moon: Cold War Rising by Lee Jackson which I finished a couple of days ago :)

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  31. Renee Armstrong3 May 2014 at 11:20

    Someone Else's Son by Sam Hayes

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  32. Daddys Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark

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  33. Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

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  34. At the moment I'm reading The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O Farrell. So far it's very funny.

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  35. Rain - KIrsty Gunn

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  36. I finished 'The Book Thief' last week

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  37. The Black Echo (A Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly

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  38. The Tournament by Matthew Reilly

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  39. the secret history by donna taart

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  40. Quake, by Richard Laymon.

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  41. Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach

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  42. The mouse proof kitchen

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  43. Sweet Temptation by Lucy Diamond. Thanks for the giveaway, my son would enjoy this book.

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  44. Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell - finished recently, a great book

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  45. The Thirteenth Tale I really enjoyed it.

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  46. I am currently reading War of the Roses

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  47. I have almost finished reading Val Mcdermid's Trick of the Dark

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  48. No Ordinary Life - finished last week - great true life story of a 2nd World War commando ;-)

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  49. I have read The Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley. The book is a historical horror novel.

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  50. Reading Wind in the Willows with my kids atm

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  51. lord of the flies and am still currently reading it!

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  52. Rush by Phillip Gwynne last week .

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  53. Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie.

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  54. Reading The Goblet of Fire for about the 20th time by J K Rowling!

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  55. I have just finished (today) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

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  56. I have just read Journey to the river sea by Eva Ibbotson with my class at school

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  57. champaklal lad4 May 2014 at 19:31

    The 24/7 kitchen by SHIRA STAROBINSKI

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  58. Solo by Jill Mansel Mrs PaulineWood

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  59. Killing Floor - Lee Child

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  60. The Quiet Ghost

    George Williamson

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