Books by Arthur Slade
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review 1: Even though I loved it to bits and pieces, The Dark Deeps was not as good as it's predecessor, The Hunchback Assignments. I thought that the concept was still wild and the novel itself still stellar, but, the first was better. Perhaps because the first was one of my favourite con...
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review 1: Arthur Slade created a loveable and inspiring character in Modo, and I was caught up in the hunchback's life as soon as I started the first book. But, unfortunately, the author didn't deliver at all in the last book, The Island of Doom. Nothing happened the way I wanted it to...i...
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review 1: I haven't read a lot of steampunk but I've got to say I've loved pretty much everything I've read. This series is kind of a mix between steampunk and the Alex Rider series or the Cherub series of spy/action adventure. In this story Modo is again the main character working for Mr....
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review 1: Interesting premise. The members of the Starker family line all die by lightning strikes. Newton knows this and has grown up with a set of survival rules for avoiding the fateful strike. Now that the lightning has claimed his mom he is trying to find an answer to why this happens...
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review 1: This series was something I checked out in desperation from my library's e-reserves. I didn't even know what steampunk was at the time. I read the book straight through, and all of the sequels as well. I'm impressed by the hero's unique gifts, his troubled youth and his struggle ...
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review 1: This is a great series for kids - it has so much they will enjoy. There's interesting characters, mystery, adventure, cool steampunk ships...Modo's mission this time was to find out about a mysterious underwater sea monster called Icitneo. It turns out that Icitneo is actually an...
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review 1: I knew I would love this book. I liked the Dark Deeps, but that one took place on the sea and if I could enjoy that one with my lack of sea loving adventures, this one was sure to be great. (It had everything I like in an adventure book. Jungles, nasty tempered bugs, and airships...
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review 1: Modo has grown up under the care of Mr. Socrates, learning much from books and tutors but completely isolated from the real world. It may have been a kindness---Modo is a hunchback with lopsided features, and once he was made aware of his appearance he was also warned how the wor...
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review 1: I like this book but I didn’t love it. Yes, it had that same adventure with my favorite characters but for some reason I felt that Modo and Octavia were a bit off. I still can see how this book fits in with the others but to say this…this book is the final installment was a sli...