Legend

Legend

By:Marie Lu

Report By: ID

Legend by Marie Lu is the most amazing book you will ever read. This awesome book tells a story about two teenages that would never have a reason to meet, until June’s brother is murdered. Day is the prime suspect. This Book throws twists and turns at you when you least expect it.

    Throughout the book Marie Lu takes you to both Day’s and June’s perspectives by writing from both of their heads. The Characterization in this book is Great. June is the smartest girl in her school with a perfect score on her trial. A test that everyone in the republic must take when you turn ten. No one else has ever gotten a perfect score. Mary Lu takes you into her head and really makes you see her point of things.

“ You know.....if  you took me along on some of your missions I’d probably learn a lot more and stay out of trouble.”

“Nice try. You're not going anywhere until you graduate and get assigned to your own patrol.” Says Meatis

When Metias finally speaks again, he sounds grudgingly curious. “So tell me” he whispers “How fast did you climb those 14 stories.”

“Six seconds” I whisper back.

June never stops wanting to do more than just learning. She want action.

    I realized  that when I really like a book I can’t stop reading it. I stayed up almost all night reading this book. When my bestfriend told me to read it I didn’t think I would like it, but it was amazing. When I was finished reading it I started wondering how it was possible for June to scale 14 stories of a building in six seconds. To me sounded impossible. But apparently it is not.

Everyone in the entire world should read this book!  I would definitely rate it a 10/10. The sequel, Patriot, is coming out in Fall 2012. I can’t wait! And you won’t either after you read it (I’m expecting you to)!!!!

Inside Out

Inside Out

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Inside out  by Terry Trueman is a book that combines suspense, guns, and maple bars. The main character, Zach, has schizophrenia, and hears brutal voices if he doesn’t take his medicine often enough.

Terry Trueman also introduces great characters throughout the book. In addition to Zach, the author brings in his mom, “Frosty and Stormy” (really named Alan and Joey), and some other people who are at the coffee shop with Zach. After “Frosty and Stormy” come into the coffee shop and try to take the money in the cash register, Zach sees a person calling the police, so he stalls the teenage criminals. `The police come, and Frosty and Stormy take everybody into the back room as hostages. They are holed up in there for most of the book.

Suddenly there’s the loud sound of footsteps running on the roof. Everybody in the room looks up, as if we could see through the ceiling. Stormy says to Frosty, “Cops?” Frosty answers, “No, Rudolph and Blitzen and... and Santa too. Of course cops! Christ!”

During the book Inside Out by Terry Trueman, I noticed that when I picked up the book to do a little bit of bedtime reading, I did not go to sleep until eleven o’clock that night. I also noticed that I talked about the book when I was involved in other things. And I realized that even though the book was short, I thought it was a really good book.

Inside out By Terry Trueman was very good, and on a scale of one to ten, I would rate it a nine. The flaws of the book were that it could go on, while Frosty and Stormy were talking to Zach. The part I didn’t get until the end of the book was how the voices kept talking to Zach while he was in the room with Frosty and Stormy. But then at the at the end of the book, I read that he had schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia hear mean voices that aren’t there insulting the person hearing the voices. The rest of the book was really very good. My favorite part was after my second paragraph in italics. I liked that part because it was really funny. If you like books containing guns, maple bars, and suspense, read Inside Out by Terry Trueman now!

Legend

Legend by

Marie Lu

    JC

   

Legend is a amazing book that is packed with suspense, action and sorrow at every turn! It is a little gruesome at some points. The book is about a boy named Day and a girl named June. June comes from the rich part of the Republic and Day is from the colonies. June is overcome by anger because of something that Day did. So she starts to track him.

I really like the suspense in the book. She keeps the reader wanting more after every page. Here is a good example of this.

Spies are usually shipped out to Denver, but if they're caught in a big city like L.A., we take them before the capitol dose. He’s hanging upside down in the interrogation room now. Commander Jameson has a pair of scissors in her hand.

 After I read that I realized just how strong the suspense is in this book.

Along with suspense there is a ton of action in the book. Here is a example of this.

What happens next is a blur. I see Metias tense up to fire his gun. I throw my knife him with all my strength. Before he can fire, my knife hits him hard in the shoulder and he falls backward with a thud. I don't watch to see if he gets up. I bend down and have the manhole cover up than lower myself down the ladder and into the blackness.   

That is one of the most intense parts of the book. Marie Lu did a great job on this book.

As I read this book I realized that even when you think that there is no hope left there is still a little to cling on to it  and make it grow. I usually don't feel a lot of feelings for the main characters I do feel some, but not a ton. But in this book I felt the characters a lot because there were so many things that happened that were so sad. But right after something bad would happen, a few pages later something reassuring would happen.

I would rate this book a solid ten! It was amazing and I think that the author should definitely write a sequel if she hasn't yet. If you like a lot of action, suspense and drama than this book is definitely for you. If you like these things but can't handle some sorrow I would not read this book.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

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    The book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has everything! It has so much suspense, great setting, and many cliffhangers too. It was a very hard book to put down and I just wanted to keep reading and reading until I got to the end.
    This book, The Hunger Games, was very suspenseful because there are many cliffhangers. By using suspense the author can draw readers in and wanting to keep wanting to read more. This is a scene that is later in the book when there are only three left in the games Katniss and Peeta ( who are from the same district and can both win ) and a boy named Cato. The capitol made killer mutant dogs with their scientists.

I can tell from his panting, the sweat pouring off his purplish face, that he’s been running hard a long time. Not towards us. From something. But what?

My eyes scan the woods just in time to see the first creature leap onto the plain. As I’m turning away, I see another half dozen join it. Then I’m stumbling blindly after Cato with no thought of anything but to save myself.

This passage is suspenseful because it doesn’t tell you what the thing was that leaped onto the plain but you know it is scary and suspenseful  because everyone is running away from it only wanting to save themselves.
    This book has great setting and the author made it very descriptive and it felt like I could see and feel everything that was happening. You realize that this is a nice, soft scene and you can picture it in your mind. This is a scene when Katniss is walking by Peeta’s family’s bakery when it is cold and rainy out.

The ovens were in the back, and the golden glow spilled out the open kitchen door.

I could see “the golden glow that spilled out the open kitchen door”. I could almost feel the warmth from the oven too.

When I was reading The Hunger Games I was really wondering if what was happening in the book could really happen someday (or something like it) because it seemed so realistic. In many chapters of this book I noticed that I was going really fast because I wanted to see what happened next! Most of the time my mouth was hanging wide open!  

    If I was rating this book I would definitely rate it a 9 because it was amazing, but at the end they left you hanging like at the end of a chapter. I cannot wait to read the second one to see what happens next. Most people think that The Hunger Games is people just killing each other (I thought that before I read it too) but it is much more than that, it has so much suspense and detail and so much more! I think that both girls and boys would really like this book a lot!

Perfect

Perfect

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Nobody wants to read about a person who has a perfect life, everyone wants to read about someone who has problems. Like Isabelle. In Natasha Friend’s book Perfect, Isabelle has to face going through life without a Dad, how to deal with her emotional wreck mother, her annoying younger sister April, and her new friend Ashley the most popular girl in school.

Throughout this book, the author does an amazing job showing feeling. This is one reason why this book was so good. You could always tell what the characters are feeling, which makes everything so much more real and understandable. Natasha Friend also has many ways of showing emotion. By people's actions, thoughts, and dialogue.

“Okay....” I took in a breath, looked up a little bit. “So. Let’s say there is something bothering me.”

“Is there?”

“There might be.”

Trish nodded. “Okay.”

“Am I supposed to just come out and say it?”

“That would be a good place to start.”

I took another deep breath and looked at Trish. “I don’t have a dad anymore. Okay? He died.”

This scene shows that Isabelle a strong feeling of missing her father. It shows this feeling by actions and dialogue. How she says that she doesn’t know how or if she even should tell anyone about her father’s death, and how she doesn’t just go out and say it. She only looks up slightly because she’s afraid. Emotion helps this book because once you know the feeling in the book, you understand everything much better in this outstanding story.

Natasha Friend also has great characters. And she uses these characters to her advantage, to make the reader have to go on. Like how the mother is so unpredictable. You are always on the edge of your seat needing to know if everything will fall in place.

    “Because that is the deal,” my mother said.
    “Some deal. It’s not like I had a choice.”
    “You’re right...” She turned to look at me. “About this, you don’t have a choice. You need to do this one thing.”
    This is one part of the book where Isabelle’s mother is acting like a normal controlled adult who is just like any other mom, doing what’s best for their daughter.
But there are other parts of the book where her mother is obviously missing her husband and that makes it hard for Isabelle and her younger sister.
    In the middle of the night, I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep. This happens a lot but it’s worst when I can hear Mom... She was crying not loud but loud enough. And she was saying his name, over and over again, the way she always does when she thinks we can’t hear her. Jay. Oh, Jacob. Oh, Jay. I waited outside the door for her to stop crying. But she didn’t.
    This scene shows another side of Isabelle’s mom. Her depressed and lonely side. This is a part where she just lets it all out. But she does this every night, and this worries Isabelle and April. How hard would it be to lose your father then have your mother, the one who’s supposed to guide you through this loss, is the person who can’t control her emotions?
    Perfect is the kind of book that you don’t want to end. With all the amazing factors, the characters, the storyline, etc., you feel as if you could read the rest of Isabelle’s life. Also, this book definitely deserves at least nine and a half stars out of ten. This book has made me 100% believe that Friend is a fantastic author. If anybody can write a perfect book, it’s Natasha Friend.