Cobalt Blue: A heart-pounding action thriller – Includes bonus material!

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In the post-novel interview, Reilly revealed that he had begun writing Cobalt Blue as a screenplay, before expanding the story into the current, novel version. The screenplay version of the story was said to contain less scenes, such as the cruise liner incident and the scene with the Vice President at LAX. Reilly maintains that he'd like to direct a film adaption of it at some point. In the end, there is a short interview with the author where he claims this novella was initially a movie script. That explains the uneven pacing, but the bigger problem is the author turning a subpar story into a bombastic adventure that makes no sense from start to finish. An undercooked tale served with glossy decorations doesn't do justice to the author's legacy.

I have adored the author's writing style for years as he takes his time setting up the stakes for the adventure while fleshing out the characters judiciously so that the story gains from it. However, in his recent outings, including the atrocious movie 'Interceptor' written by the author himself, he has resorted to cliches built upon cliches ending in stale action set pieces. Cobalt Blue is another outcome of the same. Contest • Temple • Hover Car Racer • The Tournament ( Roger Ascham and the King's Lost Girl • Roger Ascham and the Dead Queen's Command) • The Great Zoo of China • The Secret Runners of New York • Cobalt Blue

Cobalt Blue

Two weeks earlier, Cobalt informed Cassie that the psychopathic Fury wants to tear down everything America stands for, humiliate and kill its leaders, and something else she had warned Cassie about after a summit in Paris. Cobalt knows that no one will be able to stop Furin after she dies, even her children since they are only half as strong as him. However, she revealed to Cassie that he has the same weakness as herself; their muscles, bones and organs may be stronger than normal, but as her declining health has proven, their superhuman feats take a heavy toll. Cobalt then tried to encourage Cassie to consider being a hero like her siblings, and while Cassie has always disliked the idea of being idolised and in the spotlight, Cobalt believed her daughter has the right mix of brains, strength and foresight necessary to stop the Fury. It’s a top secret location where highly guarded experiments have been conducted; experiments which have gone terribly wrong. The amount of sexual violence - both real and threatened- in this book (which is really a novella) is extremely off-putting. The fact that it is being marketed as YA even more so. I hated this book because of it, and the fact that it didn't even need to be part of the plot is infuriating. In a land without any boundaries where anything goes, virtually every country would kill just to get the prize.

Both Dr. Cobalt and Sergeant Furin found that they were evenly matched, and while the former was selfless, working to understand her powers and defend peoples' lives when they needed her, Furin was tyrannical, viscously reclaiming the old Soviet republics and taking whatever he desired, earning the moniker the Fury of Russia. Soon the U.S. and Russia sought to create a new generation of these superhumans, with Cobalt donating some of her eggs to be artificially inseminated and brought to term through surrogacy, while Furin merely mated with the thousands of volunteers to try to produce a child. Despite some difficulty, both programs worked, with Furin having six sons, while five boys and two girls were produced from Cobalt's eggs. To much surprise, Cobalt also became pregnant to her husband, giving birth to a young girl, Cassie, although her parents elected to keep her identity a secret from the public. I loved these super heros, the action is non-stop entertainment and fun. The scenes are quite gruesomely graphic at times and I was clapping for Golden Gary, Cassie and her husband Trey. Gosh, almost forgot to post this! Thank you to all of you who made this possible. ... See More See Less An invaluable idol was buried deep in the jungles of Peru four hundred years ago. To the Incan people, the idol is a symbol of their spirit.

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Nevertheless, whoever sets the Golden Capstone at the summit of the Great Pyramid at Giza will not only prevent the tragedy but also receive the grand prize of dominating the world for a thousand years! years ago, Cassie and Arnold were alone at the family home in Texas when two of the Fury's sons, the Fury of Odessa and the Fury of Kazan, broke into the house. Odessa and Kazan admitted that their government's agencies have little intel on Cassie, and their intent to gift both her and Arnold's heads to their father. Despite an attempt at fleeing, Kazan managed to snatch Arnold from Cassie and broke his spine with a single punch, crippling him. Before the brothers could move in on Cassie, Cobalt returned home and swiftly killed the two Furies, later having their severed heads delivered to the Russian embassy in Washington. This incident prompted the family's relocation to a new home in Montana.

With that, Raf begins his heroic journey that will take him through dangerous swamps and ominous forests filled with wolves, hobgoblins and rogue trolls-the worst of them all. The premise is fun. The pace is relentless. The action is brutal. The scale is heroic ... Cobalt Blue is an essential part of the Matthew Reilly literary canon. * Supanova * Matthew has also written several short stories, including Roger Ascham and the King's Lost Girl, a special free prequel to The Tournament which is available online. Other short stories include Time Tours, The Mine and the hyper-adrenalised romp, Altitude Rush.We not only cover the release of Cobalt Blue but also other Matthew Reilly 2022/2023 releases and Matthew Reilly 2022 new books. With bookreleases.com you’ll never miss Matthew Reilly new releases. To survive, he will have to face and defeat unspoken horrors. Failure is not an option, for the fate of the world depends on it.