I am sure you have heard the saying
that a book is like a good friend. This is certainly true of a book series. We
all have our favorites. We wait, impatiently, for them to be published so that
we can find out what happens next to our favorite characters. We catch up with
good friends.
But what about our not so good
friends? Am I the only one who likes to catch up with an acquaintance? A
nemesis? Maybe this is a strange thing to think about, but I have a point. I do
keep tabs on people that have been in and out of my life – friend or foe. It
might be paranoia. It might be for amusement.
The point. I said that I wasn’t going
to continue to read the 39 Clues
series. I said I was done. I wouldn’t read anymore. Four books ago. I didn’t
stop. Why not? Because I want to know what happens to the characters, favorite
or otherwise. I invested the time into 11 books and I still don’t know the
outcome. It is nowhere near my favorite series, but that doesn’t seem to
matter. The only other alternative is that my obsessive tendency requires me to
finish what I have started.
Letting it go… Operation Trinity is part of an entirely new/different series that
is a companion series to the 39 Clues
and Cahills vs. Vespers. It’s called The Cahill Files. Yeah – you can hear my
excitement. It gets better (more sarcasem.) You can get a hard copy of the first book in the
series; the other two books are only available electronically. I DON’T BUY
BOOKS. And they cannot be borrowed yet.
Anyway... It reminds me a lot of Vespers Rising. The story comes in
three parts – far past, recent past, future. Part One is set nearly 500 years
ago near Ghent, Belgium. A young altar boy learns that he is a part of a family
called the Cahills. That same night, he is sent to protect the altarpiece of
St. Bavo’s Cathedral. He learns just in time because the Vespers are stirring
up unrest amongst the peasants against the Catholic Church. The Vespers are
working towards a distraction so that they can steal the painting.
Part Two takes place in 1945 during
World War II. Young Grace Cahill is in boarding school. She is determined to
deny her Cahill upbringing. She is receiving letters from a curator at the Louvre
in Paris, France, but she chooses to ignore them. Until she realizes that the
Vespers might be in league with the Nazis and her refusal to act is actually
perpetuating the war. She stows aboard a naval vessel and heads to Europe to do
her part to end the Nazi atrocities. She’ll start by saving the famous Ghent
altarpiece.
Part Three occurs just prior to the
hunt for the 39 clues. Young Ian and Natalie Kabra are about to go on their
very first mission. An important scientist has invented a tool to be used in
the restoration of art. Isabel Kabra wants her children to break into the
University in Belgium and steal the blueprints for the tool so that the Lucians
can build it first. Finally! The Kabra Kids get an opportunity to try out the
skills they’ve been honing their entire lives. Is it coincidence that the altarpiece is very close by?
I almost prefer these background
stories. Alas, this may be the only one I’ll ever get a hold of. Get it now,
before the fans realize that it’s available!
A couple 39 Clues’ reviews: Book 9 – Storm Warning,
Book 10 – Into the Gauntlet
Cahills vs. Vespers series
reviews can be found here
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