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    Genius Squad: Genius, Book 2

    Written by Catherine Jinks

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

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    A lot has changed for Cadel Piggott recently. Everything he thought he knew about his life has been blown to bits. In some cases, literally. He still has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds, but he's no longer in cahoots with Dr. Darkkon, the most powerful criminal mastermind in the world, and he's no longer the star pupil at the Axis Institute for World Domination. In fact, now he's in foster care, awaiting the trial at which he'll have to testify against evil genius Prosper English, a man who was once believed to be Cadel's father.

    With round-the-clock surveillance-intended to keep him safe until he can testify-and no computer to call his own, Cadel really doesn't have much of a life at all.

    So when a group called Genius Squad approaches him to join a secret investigation into GenoME, Dr. Darkkon's pet project, Cadel can't say no, even though he suspects Genius Squad is not quite what it seems-and even though he's sure they won't be able to protect him if Prosper English makes a jailbreak.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 9, 2008
    ISBN9780739371251
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    Genius Squad: Genius, Book 2
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    Catherine Jinks

    Catherine Jinks grew up in Papua New Guinea and now resides in New South Wales, Australia. She is a three-time winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award and has received the Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian children's literature. Her popular works for young readers include the Evil Genius series, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, and the trilogy that began with How to Catch a Bogle. Visit her website at www.catherinejinks.com.

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    • 2/5
      Is okay...so far
    • 5/5
      I like this even better than the first book, because the story has more unexpected twists and the characters, especially Cadel, gain another layer of complexity. I'm looking forward to the third book!
      A note on the translation: I re-read the first book in the original English and I think the german translation is really good!
    • 4/5
      An enjoyable second entry in the Evil Genius series. Cadel continues to grow and change especially with regards to his moral development.
    • 4/5
      After the Axis Institute is destroyed, young Cadel has the most boring and horrid life of all in Sydney, Australia. After his adopted father, Dr. Darrkon, died and his counselor, Prosper English who claims to be his "real" father, tried to kill him things have just been getting worse for Cadel. Then when he meets Detective Saul Greenuias he suddenly has someone else to rely on besides Fiona Currey, his social worker, and Sonja, his spastic friend. After a visit with Sonja Cadel's whole life changes. He gets invited to Clearview House, with Sonja, that houses Foster kids with special abilities but, it's really a cover of a team to destroy an evil genetic company called GenoMe. This squad is called Genius Squad. The Squad includes the twins Devin and Lexi, Hamish Primrose, Dot( Com's ,a student that was at Axis Institute, sister)and the Supervising members Cliff, Tony Cheung, Judith, Zac Stillman, and Trader Lynch. When the Sguad finds a way to get into the new Australian branch's computer systems the team works harder than every to find more. Then when they find out that GenoMe was going to kill Prosper English they must try and suck every information out of GenoMe.Then at a meeting with Saul and Fiona he finds out that GenoMe might kill Prosper and Cadel just got so sick because he had to lie to them about Genius Squad. Saul decides to take control of Prosper when he's being taken to Court but it blows up on him when Prosper and a security guard escorts him away and frees him. then Proser disguised as Zac kidnaps Cadel and Sonja with Alias, a literal master of disguise, and Prosper's servant Vadi, a genetic fish freak. He's taken away to Judith's house but then Cadel contacts Fiona and then they try to steal Judith's plane. Then Alias and Vadi are captured but Prosper escapes. When Saul drives Cadel And Sonja Home Prosper appears and threatens to kill Sonja if he dosen't get Cadel but is foiled by Cadel and Saul. Also, Cadel finds out that Trader agreed to take Cadel in for information on GenoMe. Dot was also a spy hired by Prosper and disapeared once found out. Cadel also finds out that Chester Cramp, the Axis Institute docter, is his father Finally Saul has 3 big announcements to make he and Fiona are getting married, Genius Squad is coming back to hunt down Prosper English and his minions, and Fiona and Saul decide to adopt Cadel.
    • 4/5
      An enjoyable second entry in the Evil Genius series. Cadel continues to grow and change especially with regards to his moral development.
    • 4/5
      The somewhat strange and super-intelligent teen Cadel from Evil Genius continues to come to terms with his abilities and whether they should be used for good or evil.Cadel finds himself working with another set of entertaining characters with unusual talents, and though it can be occasionally challenging to keep track of the many new faces, the reader still cares about their fates. Sections of the book, particularly in the middle third, are slow-paced, but the story picks up with the remarkably unpredictable climax. Genius Squad is set apart from other teen adventurer stories by the way it deals with the complications that can come with family-- be it made up of blood relations or just people who care.Both boys and girls in middle school and lower high school grades will eat up this action-adventure story.
    • 4/5
      In this installment of the Evil Genius series, Cadel joins a group of other genius teens in pursuit of an evil corporation. I enjoyed the characterization of the other kids and Cadel's interactions with them. Once again, the plot twists in this novel make for an entertaining read.
    • 4/5
      Cadel is a teenage genius, especially when it comes to computers. Unfortunately, he's stuck in foster care with only very limited computer time and infrequent visits to his best friend, Sonja. So when he and Sonja are given the oppurtunity to become a part of the "genius squad" a group of teenagers and adults trying to prove that the company Genome is up to no good, they decide to give it a try. As he and the others try to prove that GenoMe is connected to Dr. Darkkon, Cadel's father, Prosper English, is in jail awaiting trial. Because he is the prime witness, Cadel also has heavy police security from whom he is forced to hide his activities with the group.I liked this book for the most part. The plot lines shifted a lot over the course of the book, but there was enough continuity to keep it all together. It was possible to see some events coming from about a mile away, but others genuinely surprised me. I liked the characters of Cadel, Sonja, and Saul Greeniaus. I plan on reading the next in the series, although I'm not sure if I want to go back to read the first, having skipped it.
    • 5/5
      This book was so cool! I don't remember much from the first book, Evil Genius, but this book was still really awesome to read. Cadel is in foster care, and being protected from Prosper English, his dad. But Cadel doesn't like it there, and is soon offered an opportunity to escape. By joining thr Genius Squad! Genius Squad is a top secret organization trying to bring down GenoME, a Darkkon project. Cadel can't wait to finally use his skills again, move out of foster care and best of all, live with Sonja, his best friend. This book was really cool, and has a lot of twists just like Evil Genius!
    • 5/5
      I'd say the first book in the series (Evil Genius) was better, but I definitely liked Genius Squad a lot better than I thought I would. It's one of those books that's anything but predictable. The ending was a shock.
    • 5/5
      This book is about a super smart kid named Cadel who causes turmoil in Sydney Australia. His father created a college called The Axis Institute for World Domination. You could only imagine what he learns at that school.
    • 3/5
      The indignity and trauma Sonya ends up going thru in this book make me uncomfortable. Its shown as a bad thing but still was that necessary?
    • 3/5
      I loved the first book in this trilogy, Evil Genius, unfortunately the follow-up didn’t have the same spark. Cadel Piggott is a pretty fascinating protagonist: an effeminate-looking boy genius raised with no moral compass by henchmen. He developed a conscience over the course of Evil Genius, and he spends most of Genius Squad struggling with it: balancing his desire to solve puzzles and exercise his mind with his instructions to lie low and be a good boy. Both novels have a diverse and interesting cast of characters. One of my favorite things about Evil Genius was that a friend of Cadel’s had a serious disability, but this person was valued for their cleverness and intelligence and made quite important to the plot, rather than being a footnote (trying to avoid spoilers here). This is not so in Genius Squad , every mention of this character is defined by disability to the point that the character becomes almost dead weight (Cadel uses some of the drawbacks of the disability to his advantage). Quite sad. The novel was slow to start, though it did introduce two interesting new characters into Cadel’s life in the form of an empathetic social worker and an honorable detective, but by the time he hooked up with the rest of the Genius Squad I was hoping for a really juicy caper along the lines of the first novel. No dice. There was a caper, of sorts, but it was dry as they come. Genius Squad was really a bit of false advertising: there was a squad, but it wasn’t made up of kids or (for the most part) geniuses.
    • 4/5
      Catherine Jinks' follow up to Evil Genius sees Cadel Piggott fighting against evil, rather than for evil. But are Cadel's new companions fighting with him, or do they just seem to be? Jinks leaves the reader in suspense for much of the book. The plot twists are mostly surprises, including a number of false scents. There are some elements which seem to be recycled from Evil Genius, but these do not detract from the other elements of this sequel. Now we await the conclusory volume, Genius Wars.