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  • Higher Institute of Villainous Education

  • H.I.V.E., Book 1
  • By: Mark Walden
  • Narrated by: Jack Davenport
  • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (287 ratings)

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Higher Institute of Villainous Education

By: Mark Walden
Narrated by: Jack Davenport
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Summary

H.I.V.E. is a top-secret school of villainy, where children with a precocious talent for wrongdoing are sent to develop their talents and become criminal masterminds. After all, "Villains have the best lines and wear the best costumes."
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Great Start!!

I find it very hard to get into books sometimes but to fall into this book was easy!!

An amazing plot, awesome characters and some brilliant twists!!

very well read as well :) Already got the next one!

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Great work but RAVEN voice too deep

Why on Earth is Raven's voice so deep. She's a womannnnn !!!! Please please fix somehow. Sad face.

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AMAZING

The BEST audiobook EVER. I am a big audiobook lover and realy recommend this one. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

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Once you've heard the first one, you'll be hooked.

First story in the "HIVE" series - where the "bad guys" aren't that bad (apart from the REALLY bad guys!). Great series - highly recommended for teenagers & their parents.

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Fantastic family listening

I bought this in order to try to persuade my reluctant-reader son to read more. It worked! We all loved listening to it and once he was hooked on the characters he wolfed down the rest of the series in book form. He then, of course, insisted on downloading all of the others anyway!

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the best book I have ever listened to

This is an exciting story because their was a lot of action. The reader was very good. James age 9

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Good book

What did you like about this audiobook?

Its easy to lissen and intresting.

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

yeah, i will defenetly lissen or read othere books of this series.

Does the author present information in a way that is interesting and insightful, and if so, how does he achieve this?

Its all the time intresting, you dont get bored.

What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?

nothing.

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Great family audiobook to share

I bought the first book of the series for a long family journey and all of my kids then begged me to buy the next one and then the next one until I had bought all of the series. The whole have all listened to all of the books (at our own pace) and we are all waiting for the last book to be published. One great thing about buying it on audiobook is that all five of us could listen to the series at our own pace and I expect when the final one comes out I would otherwise have to buy five copies of the book!

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beautiful

lovely narrative 10/10 we enjoyed this book so much it is brilliant the action is spendid

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A great listen

Perfect listening for 10+ kids....the adventures of Otto Malpense - having been kidnapped and taken to HIVE, to be groomed as a world leader in villainy, kept us thoroughly entertained. I'm 43, my son is 12 and my daughter 10 but the differences in our ages didn't stop us all enjoying this book. Am definately downloading the next.

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