Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

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. 

Movie Review: 3/5 

           {not as good as the book}

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

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. 

http://maggiestiefvater.com/the-scorpio-races/

The Wrong Boy by Suzi Zail

“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.

Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson

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. 

Learn about other James Paterson Books:

http://www.jamespatterson.com

Amanda Hockings - Trylle Series

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. 

Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Paterson

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. 

Storm Series by Brigid Kemmerer

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.

Other Books:
0.5 - Elemental
1.0 - Storm
1.5 - Fearless
2.0 - Spark
2.5 - Breathless
3.0 - Spirit

4.0 - Secret (January 2014)

(Cover Released Last Week) YAY!!!

To learn more about Brigid Kemmerer or the Storm Series GO TO 

http://www.brigidkemmerer.com

Indigo Awakening by Jordan Dane

Indigo Awakening 

Jordan Dane is a romantic thriller and young adult novelist with a line of both Young Adult and Adult fiction books. Her fabulous new series made a bright opening with Indigo Awakening "The Hunted Series". 

Because of what you are, 

the Believers will hunt you down. 

Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voice no else can hear. He's warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish. On her desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets. Rayne can't explain her crazy need to trust the strange yet compelling boy, even through he scares her. 
They discover Lucas is running from the Believers, a fanatical church secretly hunting psychic kids—gifted "Indigo" teens feared to be the next evolution of mankind. Rayne's only hope of saving her brother is Gabe, who is haunted by an awakening power—a force darker than either of them imagine—that could doom them all.

Book Review: 3.5/5

This is a fabulous paranormal fiction book if you like mystery indigo children then you will love this book. Filled with twists and turns devoted family members and family you can not trust. This is very good except in places the story is to drawn out and made me faze out but once you get back into the story it is a fantastic book and I am awaiting the arrival of Book 2 "Crystal Fire".

http://www.jordandane.com/YA/books.php

Book Reviews To Come:

• Indigo Awakening by Jordan Dane

• Storm Series by Brigid Kemmerer

• Confessions Of A Murder Suspect by  James Paterson

• Maximum Ride Series by James Paterson

• Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz

• Shiver Series by Maggie Stiefvater

• Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan 

• Heroes Of Olympus by Rick Riordan 

• Glow by  Amy Kathleen Ryan 

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith

• Another Faust By Daniel and Dina Nayeri

Halo Series by Alexandra Adornetto

Alexandra Adornetto - 

Born in Melbourne Australia 1992, daughter of an English and Drama teacher, attending many schools during here education. At the age of 13 during her holidays she started writing her first book for young adult called The Shadow Thief. She is currently splitting her time between the US and Australia and in the future wishes to combine her writing and education.

Halo - 

An Angel is sent to Earth on a mission.

But falling in love is not part of the plan. 

Three angels - Gabriel the warrior; Ivy the Healer; and Bethany the youngest an most human are sent from Heaven to bring good to the world falling under the influence of darkness. They work hard to conceal their luminous glow, their superpowers and most dangerously their wings, all while avoiding human attachment. Then Bethany meets Xavier Woods, neither of them are able to resist the attraction between them. Gabriel and Ivy do everything they can to intervene, but the bond between them seems to strong. The angel's mission is urgent, and dark forces are threatening. Will love ruin Bethany or save her?

Book Review: 4.5/5

This is a romantic series filled with love and joy, although it does draw off a little in the first book. If you love story's filled with innocence, peace and romance then this is a fantastic series for you. I recommend this for Teenaged girls between 13 - 18. 

Hades -

 Heaven Help Her.

Bethany Church is an angel sent to Earth to keep dark forces at bay. Falling in love was never part of her mission, but the bond between Beth and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier Woods, is undeniably strong. But even Xavier’s love, and the care of her archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, can’t keep Beth from being tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell. There, the demon Jake Thorn bargains for Beth’s release back to Earth. But what he asks of her will destroy her, and quite possibly, her loved ones, as well.

Heaven - 

Only sixteen when she started the series, Ally Adornetto knows how teen hearts beat, and this long-awaited conclusion is certain to be her most popular book yet. Bethany, an angel sent to Earth, and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier, have been to Hell and back. But now their love will be put to its highest test yet, as they defy Heavenly law and marry. They don’t tell Beth’s archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, but the angels know soon enough, and punishment comes in a terrifying form: the Sevens, who are rogue angels bent on keeping Beth and Xavier apart, destroying Gabriel and Ivy, and darkening angelic power in the heavens.The only way Bethany and can elude the Sevens is to hide in the open, and blend in with other mortals their own age. Gabriel and Ivy set them up at college, where they can’t reveal their relationship, and where there is still danger around each corner. Will Bethany be called back to Heaven – forever – and face leaving the love of her life?

Cherub Series By Robert Muchamore

Author -

Robert Muchamore is an English writer with experience as a private investigator, the first book in the cherub series was written in 2004. This story came about when he found out that his nephew in Australia could not find any novels that he liked to read. He tried writing a story he would have liked as a teenager and from their came the cherub Series.

Book 1 - The Recruit (April 2004)

Book 2 - Class A (October 2004)

Book 3 - Maximum Security (April 2005)

Book 4 - The Killing (October 2005)

Book 5 - Divine Madness (April 2006)

Book 6 - Man vs Beast (October 2006)

Book 7 - The Fall (March 2007)

Book 8 - Mad Dog (October 2007)

Book 9 - Sleepwalker (February 2008)

Book 10 - The General (September 2008)

Book 11 - Brigands MC (September 2009)

Book 12 - Shadow Wave (August 2010)

Novella - Dark Sun (March 2008)

The Cherub Series goes through the life of James Choke (James Adams), a normal 11 year old boy with anger issues and a mother who runs Britain's largest Theft trade. When James gets sent home early one day after hurting a girl at school he finds his step father is back and his mother is drunk, James life is about to change forever. 

In the first book recruit the story follows how James comes to cherub and basic training and his first mission. The rest of the series follows on through his time at cherub, his punishments and his missions. 

Review: 4/5

This is an amazing series, if you enjoyed Alex Rider then you certainly will love these books. The series is more for the teenage boys out there packed with action but I also recommend this book to girls who love the bad boys and spy novels. Although the books do tent to drift of in some places it is still a fantastic series recommended to readers 11- 18 years. 

Other Books By Robert Muchamore

Henderson's Boys:

Book 1 - The Escape (February 2009)

Book 2 - Eagle Day (June 2009)

Book 3 - Secret Army (February 2010)

Book 4 - Grey Wolves (February 2011)

Book 5 - The Prisoner (February 2012)

Book 6 - One Shot Kill (November 2012)

Book 7 - Scorched Earth (2013)

CHERUB: Series 2

Book 1 - People's Republic (August 2011)

Book 2 - Guardian Angel (August 2012)

Book 3 - Black Friday (September 2013)

http://www.cherubcampus.com