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  • Take Your Last Breath

  • Ruby Redfort, Book 2
  • By: Lauren Child
  • Narrated by: Rachael Stirling
  • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)

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Take Your Last Breath

By: Lauren Child
Narrated by: Rachael Stirling
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Summary

Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with this super-awesome series from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child. And get ready to meet Ruby Redfort:code-cracking genius. Intrepid detective. Schoolgirl.

Ruby Redfort burst onto the scene in October 2011, and, in the words of Julia Eccleshare, “put imagination and fun back into childhood”.

Now, everyone’s favourite girl detective is back for a second mind-blowing instalment, packed with all the off-the-wall humour, action and friendship of the first book. This time, though, it’s an adventure on the wide open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea… Can she crack the case of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of a vile sea monster as well as the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldn’t want to bet against her…

©2014 Lauren Child (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Critic reviews

Praise for Lauren Child:

‘Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon’ – Observer Magazine

‘Lauren Child is so good it’s exhilarating’ – The Independent

Praise for the Ruby Redfort series:

‘The coolest girl hero in years … Child refuses to write down to her tween and teen audience and challenges readers with more twists than a curling tongs party’ The Times

‘Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction’ The Times

‘The new Ruby Redfort book is utterly exceptionordinarily brilliant’ – Clarice Bean

‘Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood’ – Julia Eccleshare, Guardian

‘Cool, punchy, stylish’ – Sun

‘A cracking adventure’ – Mail

‘What more could adventure-loving girls want?’ – The Sunday Times

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Narration is excellent

The narration brings the story to life it portrays Ruby's sarcastic character perfectly love the book

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So good

So glad I got this finished the whole series 3 times and I’m on my 4th now

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Great

the book was great
relived it many times
enjoyed it a lot
thank you lauren child

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The best book ever

This book always keeps you on the edge of your seat and is so interesting

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The narration is dreadful

The narration of this brilliant story is so dreadful that we had to stop listening. My daughter loves all these books because she’s both a Lauren Childs and a spy story fan, but whoever is narrating this makes all the genius-level characters and instructors sound like bored, sarcastic, lobotomised surf dudes, and makes Mrs Drisco sound like an hysterical lunatic. Completely ruined it!

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