Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Prom


By Laurie Halse Anderson

It's a book about a girl who first doesn't like prom but then turns 180 degree into organizing it and making it happen.

The book is a chick flick and it's very girly so I would recommend it to the girls but if you are one of those boys then you SHOULD read it as well.

Prom is a great read when you're bored and it's very addictive (read it in one go) and it's easy to understand.

Nightrise

This is the third book in the Power of Five series and I think that it is the best one. This book is written in Jamie and Scott Tyler's point of view. They are telepathic twins who are two of the Five Gatekeepers. When Scott was abducted during their telepathic act, Jamie begins to look for him and ecounters many obstacles in his way. He gets shot at, and then travels back in time to see his old self. He also gets caught on purpose so that he can look for his brother. The prison where Scott is being held in not pretty and Jamie cannot find him anywhere. With the help of Joe Feather, he manages to escape but is then shot. He then travels back in time to help the previous Five Gatekeepers. When Jamie woke up, he knew what he had to do after finding his brother, to find the other four. To find out whether Jamie saves Scott or not, you have to read the book. I think that is the best book out of all the Power of Five books I have read but it is also the longest:] but I am sure that that will not stop some of you from reading it.

Evil Star

This is the second book in the Power of Five series and it is as good as the first book. In this book, Matt manages to stop the Raven's Gate from opening but it is rumored that the second gate is opening in Peru. The moment Matt arrives in Peru, Cole is kidnapped and Matt is able to flee but he has nowhere to go. He has no choice but to sleep on the streets. When he wakes up, he finds a pickpocketer trying to steal his wallet and watch. That pickpocketer was another one of the Five but Matt did not know that. Together the two of them tried to find Cole and the second gate. The other Five was named Pedro and he did not speak English. When a diary entry leads them to the Mountain of the Sleeping God Mandango, Matt finds Cole and Pedro finds out who he is descended from. The Incas. Pedro's powers was that he had the power of healing. The diary entry also leads them to the second gate although they do not know where in the dessert it is. Matt soon finds out that there is someone looking for the second gate as well. It is a race against time and you are just going to have to read the book to find out. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a book full of action and suspense. This book is deifinitely a must read.

Raven's Gate

Raven's Gate is the first book in the Power of Five series and is written by Anthony Horowitz. There are a total of four books in the series so far and I think that this is not the best one. This book is about a boy named Matt who is one of the Five. He was a rebel in the start of the book and was sent to Hive Hall to live with his new foster parent. There, Matt lives with an old woman who is acting very suspicscious. When strange things start happening, Matt tries to escape but always finds himself back where he started. When Matt tries to escape through the woods, he finds Omega One, an abandoned nuclear station. When Matt sees lights coming from it even though it has not been used in twenty years, he starts getting suspiscious. He goes to investigate Omega One and sees the words Raven's Gate scrawled on it. Curious, Matt looks it up on the internet and a message box instantly appears and Professor Sanjay Dravid tells him his name before leaving. When strange things start happening to Matt, he starts getting worried and goes to library to check it out. When it leads him to an author's daughter who gives Matt and Richard Cole, a journalist whom Matt befriended the whereabouts of Professor Dravid. Dravid then starts telling them about the Old Ones who are dark creatures who tried to take over the human world thousands of years ago but were banished by five children with supernatural powers. The Five, or the Gatekeepers banished them to another dimension and built a barrier called Raven's Gate to keep them inside that dimension. Dravid tells Matt that he is an incarnation of one of the Five. When Dravid is killed and Matt and Cole are dragged back to Omega One, things start going wrong. If you want to find out what happens you just have to read the book. I highly recommend this book as it is extremely interesting. Horowitz is also a very good writer and I also recommend the Alex Rider series.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Breaking Dawn


This is the last and the best book in the entire Twilight series and probably the best book I have ever read. In the beggining of this book, Jacob has run away while Edward and Bella are engaged. Bella is getting worried as Jacob is gone and she needs her best friend back. After Edward and Bella get married, Edward promised to change Bella into a vampire. This book gets confusing as it changes from Bella being the first peron to Jacob being the first person. When Jacob is telling the story, he is somewhere faraway from Forks as he is trying to be alone and reflect on his thoughts. When he finds out that Bella and Edward are back, he rushes back to see if Bella is dead or not. When he finds out that Bella is pregnant with a half human half vampire baby, his pack decides to kill Bella along with it as they cannot risk a baby being out of control. When Jacob decides to leave the pack and to go protect Bella instead of fighting with his pack, Seth and Leah join too. After the baby is born, Edward has to change Bella into a vampire or else she has no chance of surviving. When Bella wakes up as a vampire, new problems start to appear. Someone sees the baby and think that she is an immortal baby and immortal babies are against the law. She reports this to the Volturi and they are coming to sort it out which usually means killing all the Cullens. The Cullens then start bringing friends in to witness for them that the baby is not immortal and is actually half human. At the same time, Bella finds out about her new powers and tries to learn to use them. To find out what happens you have to read the book. This is by far the best book i have ever read. I highly recommend it but this is more of a girl's book so girls have to read it. In my opinion Edward is stil mean and evil but Jacob is just pure awesomeness.:]

On the night Tegen was born, the Goddess made the stars dance across the sky. Her birth is part of an ancient prophesy that one called the Star Dancer will save the Goddess' people from a coming and terrible evil. The druids spells and castings are telling them that this evil is coming close, but they cannot bring themselves to accept that the Star Dancer is a woman, not a man. And so Tegan comes up with her silversmith father Clesek, her reserved mother Nessa and Griff, her "halfhead" foster brother and the druids continue to search for people who could help. But Tegen's destiny cannot be denied.


Tegen is separated between her family and her destiny. She isn't quite a famous heroine, because the pull of magic, religion and fate is strong within her. She's young, afraid and confused, but she's also brave, determined and powerful. She's just the sort of central character children love to read about and admire. Over the course of the book, she is asked to gain maturity and make painful decisions.


I enjoyed reading this book because there was a lot of amgic, ancient history and mythology which made the book more attractive. Beth Webb writes a lot about courage, magic, and history

Eclipse


Eclipse is the third book in the Twilight series and is the second best book in the series. In this book, Edward comes back to Bella but Jacob is still trying to win Bella over. Edward has to deal with a werewolf being Bella's bestfriend and Jacob has to deal with a vampire being Bella's boyfriend(vampires and werewolves hate each other). When Bella finds out that Victoria is after her, Edward and Jacob start thinking of a plan to keep Bella safe. Both of them do not know how Victoria is going to attack Bella so they are just protecting her at the moment. After all the newspaper reports on mass killings, Jasper figures out that Victoria is creating newborn vampires to try to attack the Cullens and werewolves to get to Bella as newborns are wild and strong. Jasper then gives the werewolves and his family a crashcourse on newborns and he is most experienced in that topic. The newborns come of course but they are strong. Will experience beat strength? You will have to read the book to find out. People say this movie will be released in June or July but trust me, the book is so much better than the book and it is actually worth the money. I highly recommend this book as it is just one of those books that you cannot put down after you pick it up.