Fledgling: Jason Steed

Jason Steed: Flegling is a book full of history, action, military combat and of course Karate. The book takes you through Jason's first eleven years of life. He starts out in Hong Kong learning karate, jujitsu and tae kwon do (just to name a few). Right away, you know there is something different about him. He is stuborn, loves carrot cake and sneaks into a military base at night to play on the flight simulator. This just the beginning though. From this, he ends up beating unthinkable odds. Along with a little bit of English Royalty added in too! I won't give away anymore. This story is full of surprises and great moments that will linger in your mind well past the hours you should be sleeping. I actually woke up laughing yesterday morning thinking about the Barbershop scene. I cried, I laughed, my heart beat a little faster than normal sometimes and I finally decided I liked his father when he let Jason make his own decision in the end. This is an excellent book for anyone who likes European war stories, young adult novels and books filled with action and adventure. Plus, I see a series in the making. Over all, this is a book that can be easily enjoyed by someone as young as ten but as old as eighty.

How did I miss this one, this novel is nothing but brilliant, the character Jason Steed jumped out of the book, grabbed me by the throat and pinned me to the chair. Once I started I couldn't put it down. Then when I finished it I read a second time. It goes clearly into my favorite books of all time, the novel is written in such a way that you think you are watching a movie. My nephew went ona nd on about how good this book was, he is not really the reading type. He read it and has now started to read more books in the same genre. I am not sure when the second Jason Steed book is coming out, but will be putting in my order as soon as it does. I have now managed to get the older longer version that the author originally published in 2008. The story is longer in that version, maybe a little slower but I think has a better ending on the aircraft. That said this version is awesome, I suspect they cut out that part so it matches a future film that I am sure they will be making on this novel. What is strange to me is that this book is not known in large circles, I am a teacher and none of my colleges knew of it. The Indie Award it won in 2009 was well justified, now it's gone mainstream it has lost some of the mystery to who wrote it? many have claimed it to have been written by another author who also writes YA books. I won't mention his name as it's unfair to the author Mark A. Cooper who did actually write it.

I bought this for my grand daughter after reading it was Malia Obama's favorite book, any book good enough for the Predidents daughter is good enough for my grand daughter. I flipped through and was suprised to find a tribute in the front to real life hero Raymond Steed who is the youngest recorded service death in WW2. The story good me interested and so I thought I would read a few pages, 7 hours later and a whole day gone I had finished it. What a wonderful story, different to any story I have read before, the author painted a picture with words, the main character Jason Steed is a great little guy, A hero yeas, but like all boys he gets in trouble, even gets spanked and when things go wrong sheds a tear. I have since given the book to my grand daughter and she loved it, she is now asking for the second book, I have been unable to find that yet, various sites give the name for book 2, but no clear dates yet. I would recommened this book, to children 8 and up, including adults.