Friday, December 9, 2011

"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

"The Hunger Games," a novel by Suzanne Collins, follows the life of sixteen year-old Katniss Everdeen. She lives in a time where there are twelve districts ruled by avicious Capitol that takes its amusement out by hosting an annual televised Hunger Games. To prevent a rebellion, these games pit two people from every district, a boy and a girl, against each other in a fight to the death to show just how powerful the government is. All kids twelve to eighteen must enter their names to be picked at random to participate.

Katniss lives in District Twelve in a place known as “the Seam” with her depression-stricken mother and young sister, Prim. She and her best friend, Gale, hunt in the forbidden woods on the outskirts of town to supply their starving families with food after they each lost a parent in a mining accident. When the seventy-fourth Hunger Games arrives, Prim, only twelve, is chosen to compete. Katniss knows her little sister will not survive these trials, so she decides to volunteer to go for her. Through an unlikely chain of events, Katniss is forced to befriend her partner from her district, Peeta Mellark, and put “true love” to the test. But surviving the Capitol’s cruel tricks is not the only problem Katniss will have to face if she wants the odds of winning to be ever in her favor.

A thrilling, fast paced adventure, The Hunger Games is a must-read. Katniss and Peeta will keep you entertained with their wit and compassion, and the will to survive through anything.

Reviewed by Sydney Bernier

See also- review of the second Hunger Games book, Catching Fire

Monday, December 5, 2011

"Lost inTime" by Melissa de la Cruz

The Blue Bloods are New York’s finest, the richest, the prettiest, and the oldest. The people of New York have no clue they’re living among vampires, vampires who descended from the very gates of heaven. In book six, “Lost in Time” our favorite blue bloods are descending down to the depths of hell for love, others are leaving love behind for the last battle, and some are on the great search for the Gate of Promise, which is the only way leading back to paradise. The stakes are higher than ever in this second to last book in the series by Melissa de la Cruz, and with stakes that high, what vampires will survive?

Reviewed by Cheyenne Newberry

Thursday, December 1, 2011

"Bloodlines" by Richelle Mead

Fans of Richelle Mead’s, "Vampire Academy" will love her new spin off series," Bloodlines". The story begins in the shoes of alchemist, Sydney. Sydney is sent into hiding in order to help protect the Moroi princess Jill Dragomir. After being shipped off to a private school in Palm Springs, California, Sydney and some of the Vampire Academy gang join together to help solve a chain of murders and other drama they didn’t expect.

Reviewed by Cheyenne Newberry