What age for Lee Child?

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Are Lee child books appropriate for 12 DS? He has just finished the cherub series and thought these might be good. Have googled but can't see much info

Try him on the Jack Reacher film first.

I read my first Jack Reacher book at around that age. Tends not to have much swearing in them as well which is a bonus.

I think his books got steadily more reliant on horrible violence (stuff that I would fast forward through) so I would read them first.

Have a look at Harlan Coben. He does some young adult books.

They do contain some horrible violence which might be upsetting. The first one has a woman nailed to a wall and forced to swallow her husbands testicles - reported by the coroner but still awful

I mean in Child not Coben

Ooh the first ones are quite violent, I’m re reading them. I think the ones later on are a bit better. I have a 13 year old and wouldn’t let him read them yet

@cdtaylornats

Try him on the Jack Reacher film first.

The film is rubbish. Casting Tom Cruise as Reacher is a travesty.

12 is definitely too young for these books. I’ve read them all and there are too many adult themes.

I'd read them first but would be inclined to say 12 is too young.

What about young James Bond, Robert Muchamore, alex Ryder etc....

Thanks everyone. I have bought a whole set cheaply online but have put them away for a while. He is reading cherubs series by Robert Muchamire and we also have the next series of his. I will look at the young James Bond too.

While there is violence in the books, I was starting to read books with some fairly exolicit sex etc at that age, probably not so much violence, but the school uses The Hunger Games, with discussion, in class in year 8, and DS1 wasn't born until May so he was only 12 at the time.

He's now 13 and if I still had the paperback of the first book in the series I might well let him read it, and others. He doesn;t like reading books in Kindle form which is a shame, as a series of 20 books would keep him going for a while. I think in books there's some sort of ethical dimension that might not be there in games, and I'm really keen to get him reading again. He got bogged down in Lord of the Rings last year, and while I was interested in it at the time I can sort of see why anyone could get bogged down in something so long and slow at this time.

I might well, if I can find or borrow the first in series paperbacks, try him on Lee Child, Michael Connelly or Robert Crais.

I think the violence gets steadily worse over the series. There's stuff I wish I'd not read, let alone have my child read it. As others have said, there's loads of good appropriate stuff out there. Lee Child can wait.