LOOK, I DIDN'T WANT TO BE A HALF-BLOOD. I NEVER ASKED TO BE THE SON OF A GREEK GOD.
I was just a normal guy, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporised my maths teacher. That's when my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive.
This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea.
CAN PERCY FIND THE LIGHTNING BOLT BEFORE A FULLY FLEDGED WAR OF THE GODS ERUPTS?
Book Review:
4/5, This is a fantastic introduction to a great series where normal life meets ancient mythology, GREEK MYTHOLOGY. These stories are now being re-written, with new characters but still the same amazing stories.
It is the first day of November and so, today someone will die. Even under the brightest sun, the frigid autumn sea is all the colours of the night: dark blue, black and brown. I watch the ever-changing patterns in the sand as it's pummelled by countless hooves. they run the horses on the beach, a pale road between the black water and the chalk cliffs. It is never safe, but it's never so dangerous as today, race day. "Some Race To Win, Others To Survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given her much a choice. So she enters the competition - the first girl to ever do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen. As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of the heart can survive. The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience. " by The New York Times Maggie Stiefvater is a New York Times #1 Best Selling Author, of the novels Shiver, Linger and Forever. She is also the author of Lament: A Faerie Queen's Deception and Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie. Book Review: 3/5 A fantastic tale and story line but it draws on for a large amount of the book. If you like horses or just slightly romantic stories with devastation and sadness. I loved this book, Maggie Stiefvater is an amazing writer and hopefully there will be plenty more amazing books to come from her.
“No
one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his
background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn
to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human
heart than its opposite.” NELSON MANDELA
“Being kissed by Karl Jager was
devastating. And Beautiful. War makes you do dangerous things.”
Hanna Mendel liked to know what was going
to happen next. She was going to be a famous concert pianist. She was going to
wear her yellow dress to the dance on Saturday night. But she didn’t plan on
her street being turned into a ghetto. She didn’t plan on being rounded up and
thrown in a cattle truck. She didn’t plan on spending her sixteenth birthday in
Auschwitz, in a wooden barrack with two hundred other prisoners. Most of all,
Hanna didn’t plan on falling in love with the wrong boy.
BOOK REVIEW: 4.5/5
This is an indepth book about the lives of
Jewish women and teenagers during World War II. This story follows through the
life of Hanna Mendel her love for music, and all things a teenage girl thinks
of. The truth I found myself crying by the end of this story not because of the
romance or even the story but it was the truth about the past. This is part of
the world’s history and even through this story is not based solely on truth this
did happen. If you are interested in romance with a mixture of WWII and the
concentration camps then this book would be a great and enjoyable read. I recommend this book for teenaged girls who
love romance and even boys and younger readers.
The Maximum Ride series is one of the first Teenaged series written by Award winning author James Paterson. The series is about a group of Scientifically Improved children who have no family, no home and are on the run. Maximum Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind—or destroy it.
MAXIMUM SERIES:
Book 1 - The Angel Experiment
Book 2 - School's Out Forever
Book 3 - Saving the World and Other extreme Sports
Book 4 - The Final Warning
Book 5 - Max
Book 6 - Fang
Book 7 - Angel
Book 8 - Nevermore
BOOK REVIEW: 4/5
This is an amazing teenaged series as follow the lives and struggles of these 6 children becoming attached to their lives and characters. The movie is set to be released soon and thousands of fans are out their waiting with their dream cast. Give this series a try and look at other amazing books by James Paterson.
The Trylle trillogy was written by Amanda Hockings, this is a fanatic series filled with trolls, mystery and princess tales.
This is a trillogy with four bonus stories in order below:
0.5 - Fresh Water
1.0 - Switched
1.5 - The Vittra Attacks
2.0 - Torn
2. 5 - One Day: Three Ways
3.0 - Ascend
3.5 - Wake
SWITCHED:
Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claims she is - she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in...
She's bored and frustrated by her small town life - and then there's the secret she can't tell anyone. Her mysterious ability - she can influence people's decisions, without knowing how or why ...
When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night - her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers, and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist: Förening, the home of the Trylle.
Finally everything makes sense. Among the Trylle, Wendy is not just different, but special. But what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. With everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But dark forces are conspiring - not only to separate them, but to see the downfall of everything that Wendy cares about...
The fate of Förenign rests in Wendy's hands, and the decisions she and Finn make could change all their lives forever ...
Book Review: 4/5
This is a fantastic series filled with twists and turns you will never see coming romance and friendship round every corner and a girls fight to become what she doesn't want to be but is destined for. Wendy had a difficult childhood from the start her mother didn't like her but life went against her on her 6th Birthday when her mother tried to kill her. Coming to terms with this over time and never feeling like she belong if Wendy's life wasn't confusing enough. He comes yet another amazingly hot guy to sweep our main characters thoughts up and make life even more confusing.
I recommend this series for teenaged girls who love mystery and romance, hopefully soon we will be able to have a movie about it to watch but before that happens there is a great opportunity to read the books.
Imagine waking up open the front door and finding out your parents are dead, the doors were locked and you and your little brother were the only ones in the house. James Paterson returns to the genre that made him famous, teen detective series.
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone—maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?
Book Review: 3/5
This is a fantastic book and i highly encourage that girls and boys who love mystery give it a go, the recommended age is 12-17 year old. The second book in this series is called Confessions: The Private School Murders, this is released on the 7th of October.
Ever since her ex-boyfriend spread lies about her, Becca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys—the ones she doesn’t want. Then she saves Chris Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Chris is different. Way different: he can control water—just like his brothers can control fire, wind, and earth. They’re powerful. Dangerous. Marked for death.And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca.
When Hunter, the mysterious new kid in town, turns up with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Becca thinks she can trust him. But then Hunter goes head-to-head with Chris, and Becca wonders who’s hiding the most dangerous truth of all…
Book Review: 4.5/5
This is an amazing start to the series, and an amazing sereis. If you like mystery, romance and action then you will love these books. I recommend these for teenaged girls but boys if you would like to try it I encourage you to give it ago.
