Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl




Ethan Wate was just an ordinary boy in a boring old town of Gatlin. He had been haunted with dreams of a beautiful girl he never met. Things changed when he met Lena Duchannes the new girl in town. Lena was not an ordinary girl even though that was what she always wanted. She's struggling to keep her powers concealed and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. However the secrets cannot stay hidden for ever. Ethan and Lena falls in love. Ethan soon finds out about Lena and what she really is however when they are together Ethan are in dangerous. Of course Ethan never knew about this. Lena is Old Man Ravenwood's niece. Old Man Ravenwood has lived in this town for a very long time. However he never leaves his house.
Ethan's mom died in a car accident and his dad stays locked up in his room all day.
Ethan's life is about to change but he does not know can he stay away from Lena before danger arrives...

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare - 512 pages.

I LOVE THIS SERIES. I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND. i dont know why other people dont enjoy reading the book much, but Susan, Nikita, Xuan, Yan Shin, Kimberley all like it :)


This story starts off with Simon and Clary coming in to an all-ages nightclub, Pandemonium. She meets Jace, Isabelle, Alec, a group of demon hunters, also called shadowhunters, but she’s the only one who can see them, Simon and everyone else can’t see them. Her mom and her have a fight, and she leaves the house with Simon and goes to Eric, Simon’s band member’s poetic concert. She sees jace again and he jokes about kidnapping her and proves to her she really does have the sight. Her mom calls and she runs home, where she expects to see her mom, but instead she meets a monster, and, of course, no mom. She kills the monster, (YAY) and Jace saves her (YAYAY). She wakes up in an institute and calls Luke, (her moms best friend) but he doesn’t want her back. She’s desperate to get her mom back, and together, her and Jace do, but not with many distractions and boundaries to stop them in the way, even a twist in the end.

Beautiful darkness - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl - 503 pages (2 books)

i like the series, but i don't love it. there are times in this book where it's just boring and all they do is read a book (literally). but still, i think it's worth reading.

Ethan used to think Gatlin was where nothing extraordinary happens, he couldn't have been more wrong. Lena Duchannes, a caster girl revealed him a secret, a secret to the world he never knew existed, there, in plain sight all along. Lena's family has been cursed for generations, by the book itself.
then Lena starts to pull away from him, she even throws branches at him! and jumps at the back of some guys motorcycle in front of him, and he never knew what he did wrong.
he meets Liv, at the library where they work. She's a 'keeper in training' she says, and of course she knows about the caster world. they become great friends and they try to work out what is happening to Lena all this time, why is she pulling away from him, and why is the caster sky changing? together, they, and Link, go underground to find Lena, and where she is going with this mysterious guy, while everything around them changes, from Dark to light, caster to mortal, and of course, the knowing that Ethan and Lena can never be together. but still, after all she did to him, he's determined to find a way.

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

Maximum Ride is a fourteen-year-old girl with wings who is the result of some experiments at a secret lab to inject avian genes into human embroyos. They were 98% human DNA and 2% bird. Max is the oldest of the six members of her family, or as they refer to themselves, the flock. The others are Fang - a boy who is four months younger than Max; Iggy - who was blinded by experimentation on his sight at the lab; Nudge - a young girl who talks non-stop; the Gasman - an eight-year-old boy with persistent intestinal problems and Angel, his six-year-old sister. Max and her companions were kept in cages and subject to repeated scientific experiments during their life at the School (as the lab was called); they were eventually freed by one of the lab scientists named Jeb Batchelder. Jeb secreted them at his mountain home and raised and educated them; but Jeb suddenly disappeared two years ago and the flock has been on its own since then. Suddenly, Erasers (experimental beings also developed at the lab who can turn into powerful vicious wolf-like creatures) raid the family's mountain hideaway and kidnap Angel. It's up to the flock to save her.


Good Night Mister Tom

This book is about a boy called Willie Beech. he is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley. But his new found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back from London.
Read the book if you want to find out what happens next.
I enjoyed reading this book and i would recommend other people to read this book.

Sparks

this book is about a girl called Carla. her Grandpa wrote a letter to her telling her his secret dreams. she's determined to make it come true, even if she has to break the laws and every other rules. her plan is highly dangerous and very crazy, but she's going to give her Grandpa what he wants, and that is a Viking funeral.

this book was quite good even though it was a bit short. even though it isn't as good as the other books that i've read, i still enjoyed reading it.

tell me no lies

Mike could feel her eyes like lasers, boring into his back. he had to fight not to look back. had she noticed him? had she recognized his face?
Mike is a new boy at school, a boy who desperately doesn't want to be noticed. he has a secret so terrible that it will haunt him forever.
But Gemma's sure she's seen Mike's face before. And now she's out to get him.
read this book to find out what the secret is.
this book was that good, i wouldn't recommend people to read this book.