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Day of the Assassins: A Jack Christie Adventure (Jack Christie Adventure #1)
FIRST IN AN EXCITING NEW SERIES
Jack Christie and his best friend, Angus, find themselves at the center of a momentous event that will shape history for decades to come. Their dilemma: Should they intervene? Their problem: Can they survive? Join Jack on a dangerous chase from the dockyards of England to the rain-sodden trenches of the First World War. Will he escape the evi...more
Jack Christie and his best friend, Angus, find themselves at the center of a momentous event that will shape history for decades to come. Their dilemma: Should they intervene? Their problem: Can they survive? Join Jack on a dangerous chase from the dockyards of England to the rain-sodden trenches of the First World War. Will he escape the evi...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
September 10th 2009
by Templar
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I’m going to come straight out with it an say that my history knowledge is embarrassingly bad. When I was a school, history was the lesson for catching up on sleep, exploring the artistic merit of the doodle and praying something exciting would go past the window. Needless to say I dropped the subject as soon as I could but when you’re a kid you’re looking toward the future, it’s hard to get excited about what happened hundreds of years ago.
That’s why I was so pleased when I read Day of the Assa...more
That’s why I was so pleased when I read Day of the Assa...more
Jack Christie lives with his mom in Scotland; who knows where his father is. He left when Jack was four years old. Jack is now 15 and enjoys school (sometimes) and playing Point-of-Departure, a WWI video game, with his best friend Angus. After a series of strange events – Jack’s dad sends him a history book for his birthday, Jack keeps dreaming his is in a foxhole facing a German soldier, Jack and Angus discover a hidden workshop in his basement, the school janitors try to shoot them, and their...more
I wanted to like this one more. In fact, I was hoping to love it. I love history and love the premise of time travel in my fiction. Jack and his friend Angus are somewhat unlikely time travelers. Though, in a way, they've been preparing for it to a certain degree. Jack has a decided interest in a video game, "Point of Departure" about World War I. The game has levels, of course as you'd expect, and players can try to change history, etc. Angus enjoys the game, too. And one day while they are pla...more
In the first instalment, Jack and his friend Angus not only discover the time machine, they are transported back to 1914, to try and stop the assassination of the Archduke Franz Joseph and therefore stopping World War I and changing the course of history. Jack discovers on the trip why his dad left him - he is working for the revisionists. On the trip Jack realises that he needs to make a decision - does he stop the assassination and change not only history but his own existence, or does he let...more
I enjoyed the history in this novel--the hero is plunked into the past, days before Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated and World War I begins. The action and the flavor of the setting is a lot of fun and interesting to a history buff like me. The characters and premise leave more to be desired, however. The setup is that Jack, a teenage boy, accidentally sends himself to the past to escape an intellectual group that wants to keep time travel technology secret. And they are opposed to the B...more
When the publisher e-mailed me asking to review this book I didn't hesitate! I love history in books and this seemed like the perfect way to put it. Jack and his friend Angus find a time machine, the Taurus, and are thrown back to World War One. Think of it as a modern adventure in history!
The author has developed some really good ideas in this novel, I really liked how he threaded the brilliant ideas together. The whole aspect of the time machine is ingenious - you can only go when the little l...more
The author has developed some really good ideas in this novel, I really liked how he threaded the brilliant ideas together. The whole aspect of the time machine is ingenious - you can only go when the little l...more
Day of the Assassins is a book about two boys who go on an adventure to the year of 1914. They time travel back to 1914 on a mission to prevent World War I from happening. They have to do this by preventing the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. They encounter many issues along their journey and that is what really makes this book interesting. I thought that this book was a good read and kept me most of the time highly engaged. Based on what I have read, this book is more for the people...more
This is one of those books that I recognize as a good book but that I just could not get into. Because I recognize it as such, I would still recommend to a certain group of people, likely pre-teen or teenage boys.
The main character, Jack, is very likable, with a good head on his shoulders and a positive sense of self. His best friend Angust rubbed me the wrong way for the first half of the book but started to win me over as his maturity progressed throughout the novel.
The conspiracy/secrecy asp...more
The main character, Jack, is very likable, with a good head on his shoulders and a positive sense of self. His best friend Angust rubbed me the wrong way for the first half of the book but started to win me over as his maturity progressed throughout the novel.
The conspiracy/secrecy asp...more
Good time-travel action adventure book for younger teen boys- two boys are sent back in time to stop the assassination that sets off the horror of World War I- but when they get there, they begin to wonder if that's the right thing to do, as it will change the course of history...
Absolutely brilliant. The best book I've ever read!
Note: Some people are reviewing this book with scepticism, even though they are not in the target audience. This is nonsense! For any 9-14 year old, this book is perfect, and fits in the history course too!
Note: Some people are reviewing this book with scepticism, even though they are not in the target audience. This is nonsense! For any 9-14 year old, this book is perfect, and fits in the history course too!
I wish I had a lot of good things to say about this, but I don't. The action is slow coming, the time travel aspect rough, and the alternate history idea neat but not handled great. I can't honestly tell if this was a problem of the book not being what I wanted or the book not being what it should have been.
I'm definitely not the books intended audience (though I do have an interest in World War I). It's an interesting enough time-travel book, but not up to the usual standards of genre. It doesn't handle the question of causality or the very important question of how to handle modern day technology in the past.
For some reason this book took me forever to get though, but I did enjoy it. I actually am hoping it will do well and there will be more in the series.
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Johnny O’Brien was born in Edinburgh and studied history at Cambridge University. He got the idea for DAY OF THE ASSASSINS when he came across his grandfather’s medals from World War I. He lives in Surrey, England, with his family.
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