This is the third installment in the excellent H.I.V.E. series, & I'm assuming that other fans, like me, are feeling strangely invested in & fond of this group of future villains & bad-guys-in-training. It's a weird concept to be on the bad guys' side, but I think at this point, it's becoming obv...
It took a while to re-acquaint myself with these well-loved characters, having read the previous book almost five years back. Dreadnought delivers the same exciting action and dose of trouble that seem to follow Otto, Wing, and their band of villainous heroes at H.I.V.E.- a secret school for su...
Higher Institute of Villainous Education (H.I.V.E) is a great book. The main character is Otto, an intelligent boy from a run down orphanage. Otto never really had any friends because he was "different" than most of the other kids in the orphanage, but when he is transported to H.I.V.E, a secret ...
The others were already sitting on the folding metal chairs that faced the whiteboard at the other end of the room. Doctor Stirling and the Servant stood on either side of a map of the United Kingdom, waiting for them to take their seats. ‘What’s this all about?’ Sam asked as he sat next to Rache...
‘Enter,’ he said, and his First Officer opened the door. ‘Sir, we’ve got something on sonar. It could be the target boat,’ the First Officer reported. ‘Show me,’ the Captain said, getting up from behind his desk and following the First Officer down the short corridor that led from his cabin to th...
Jay had insisted on helping Nat despite the fact that Rachel had told him that she was more than capable of doing it. Sam had pretended not to notice the look of relief on Rachel’s face when Jay had taken over. Sam turned round and briefly flashed his torch down the tunnel behind them. ‘I think y...
‘What is the most beautiful thing in the world?’‘Energy and mass are equivalent and transmutable. E=MC2. Albert Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity. Introduced in his 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”. Special relativity is based on two postulates which are contradictory –’...
Chapter Two Three months later Professor Pike took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes with a protracted sigh. He yearned to be back in the Science and Technology department; that was where he really belonged, not here, trying to fill the shoes of one of his oldest and best friends. He leant back...
I. V. E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education .Chapter Eleven For Otto and the other students their timetable remained unforgiving over the next couple of months; their new education proceeded at a breakneck pace that showed no sign of letting up any time soon. One moment they would be learn...
He looked around the interior of the fake church and was struck by just how much attention to detail had been used when the building was constructed. ‘Don’t worry. We’ll be fine,’ Laura said, helping Tom lower Nigel on to the floor behind the altar. ‘How are you feeling, Nigel?’ Otto asked. His f...
Chapter Four Nero scanned the Shroud’s control panel with a worried expression. They were low on fuel. He knew that he was going to have to put the Shroud down somewhere very soon. They had no chance of making it back to H.I.V.E.; their best chance was if he could touch down somewhere near one of...
‘I think I’m nearly there. If I just try and log in through this proxy then –’Shelby’s terminal emitted a loud warning tone and the screen went black save for two lines of glowing red text in the centre of the screen. ACCESS DENIEDONE LOGIN ATTEMPT REMAINING ‘Damn!’ Shelby spat, slamming her hand...