This was an impulse library check out since the YA room was right there when I was returning some DVDs and I didn’t feel like running upstairs. I’m so glad that I grabbed it, it was right up my alley. Cadel is a young genius, taken to see a psychologist for troubled youth after he gets caught hacking into the power grid in his Australian city, at the ripe old age of 7 years old. But oddly enough, the first thing Dr. Roth does is […]
Bratty Geniuses Unite!
The Genius Wars finishes up the Genius Trilogy by Catherine Jinks. Judging by her website, it’s also the last in the series, which I think is a shame. It may not be a great, groundbreaking novel, but it would be fun to watch Cadel and Sonja team up and solve crimes, under the tutelage of Saul and Fiona Greeniaus. Also–it ended very abruptly which kind of annoyed me. There’s so much more ground to cover! “You don’t believe it because you don’t understand,” he said hoarsely. […]
Genius Squad (Genius #2) by Catherine Jinks
130 books, which is 2.5 Cannonballs, and probably as much as I’m going to accomplish this year (I might finish my audiobook today–we’ll see). Catherine Jinks’s Genius Squad was a good way to wrap up the year–some light, silly fun. Note: this is the second book in the Genius trilogy (I reviewed the first, Evil Genius, a few months ago), so spoilers exist for the first novel. At the end of Evil Genius, Cadel Piggott finds out that his parents are not his parents, and his real father is […]
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
This book was so much fun, even if it fell apart a bit at the end. It was something like 550 pages, and I read the whole thing in two evenings. Just couldn’t put it down! Evil Genius is about Cadel Piggott (no wonder he’s evil), an extraordinarily bright yet troubled young man. At the age of 8, he’s taken under the wing by his therapist, whose advice re: committing cyber crimes boils down to “What ever you do-Don’t get caught.” Cadel accelerates through school and starts […]