Raven's Gate, Power of Five

Raven's Gate
Anthony Horowitz

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 I am an emotional wreck at the moment I have just finished the last book from The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz and I just have one thing to say, Anthony Horowitz broke my heart. But, I can't say anything about that yet because that would be ruining the entire series for you. So, I'm going to be writing about the first book of the series, Raven's Gate ( Which BTW is followed by Evil Star, Night Rise, Necropolis and Oblivion respectively ). It all begins when Matt or Matthew Freeman gets in trouble with the police and is sent to be fostered by Jayne Deverill in the LEAF project in Lesser Malling, Yorkshire. It doesn't take him long to realize that there's something wrong with his guardian and the entire village. He learns about the Old Ones and begins to realize and understand just how different he is. He meets Richard Cole a journalist from the Gazette and somehow they become best friends, well, more than best friends their practically brothers and together they unravel the mystery that is Nexus, Omega One, Lesser Malling and Matt himself. But I will say this book will make you cry or at least feel something ( well if you have a heart ). They are deaths, they are deaths that you wouldn't care much about, they are deaths you would care about, they are deaths that you would be happy about...well not exactly happy, you'd have a sense of satisfaction about the death...I guess,they are deaths you would cry about and they are deaths where you would bawl yours eyes out every time you here the person's name throughout the entire series but the last type of death didn't come to me till the very end. The series is a sad one but then again most of the books I read are sad ones. But I do not regret reading the series and I don't think I ever will and that us why I think everyone should read this series and if they ever made it into a movie I'd be glad well as long as they don't mess up the story-line. Everyone should read this book. They should and I say this with all my heart.


                                                                                        Inez.

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THE LAND OF STORIES: THE WISHING SPELL

BY CHRIS COLFER


I personally love this book and its not just because the writer, Chris Colfer is part of the GLEE cast its because he's also a really good writer and I'm not just saying that just so you'll read this book. Chris Colfer has also written other books such as Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal, the second and third book of the land of stories series: the enchantress returns and a grimm warning, respectively. This book is funny but at some points I felt like I just wanted to curl into a ball and cry. Like when the Evil Queen tells her story to the main characters of the story, which most people don't usually cry at but hey I'm not like usual people.

Alex and Conner Bailey

        This book is about 2 kids Alex and her twin brother Conner Bailey. The story starts about a year after their father dies, which is a few days before their 11th birthday but your not supposed to know that till chapter 2. Anyway, they both go to the same school and have the same classes and even though their twins they are quite different Alex is smart, likes reading, loves school ( learning ) , is a teacher's pet ( sort of ) , she's always alone reading a.k.a. lonely and she is always teased in school. Conner is the exact opposite of everything his sister is ( well everything except their looks, they both have strawberry blond hair and blue eyes ) he sleeps in class, he gets detention slips like everyday, he pretty much hates school and he has friends. On their 12th birthday their mother has to work a night shift at the hospital ( she's a nurse ) and is not able to celebrate with them and asks their grandmother to stay with them for the night. Their grandmother travels all around the world to read to sick children or teaches children in third world countries how to read and write. She gives them gifts that she has collected for them from all over the world but nothing beats her last present her treasured fairy tale book. They discover that the book can hum, glow, absorb things and things can fly out of it too. While testing out the book Alex falls into it and just like in the nursery rhyme Jill/Conner comes tumbling after. They enter the land of stories where fairy tales are real. Alex and Conner soon discover, the stories they know so well haven’t ended in this magical land. Goldilocks is a wanted fugitive in all of the kingdoms, Red Riding Hood has her own kingdom, Queen Cinderella is about to have a child. Goldilocks and Jack ( the Jack with a beanstalk ) have a secret relationship and The Evil Queen is still on the loose. Oh yeah and there is a 4th charming prince.
The twins want to get back home and find a journal with the help of frog-man, Froggy they find a journal with a spell that could get them out but The Evil Queen is searching for the spell to and now its just a race against time. How will they ever find the way out? 

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Chris Colfer and the rest of the series.

INEZ:)

DIVERGENT

by Veronica Roth       


This book to me is an "okay" sort of book. Its not that its not nice its just a little too...romantic for my liking. I mean I'm fine with kissing and stuff but talking about how you feel when you touch them, how you fit perfectly together and how you want each other its kind of a little bit too much for a 14 year old like me to enjoy. ( I am just putting out my opinion it doesn't mean it has to be the same as yours ) Divergent was made into a movie last year, 2014 and even though I believe that the book is always better than the movie this time it wasn't. To me the movie was better because they omit some of the more violent scenes like attempted gang rape, a knife plunged into someone's eye and the and her kissing him happens a lot in the book but very little in the movie. So big thumbs up to them. Some people have compared this book to the hunger games and said that this book is less violent but, even though 22 teens die but their deaths are mostly quick a snap of the neck, a arrow in the neck, a stab of a sword. All the deaths were fast okay except Cato's and maybe Rue's death  but other than that quick or instant deaths but in divergent you have to fight each other till one of you knocks out and can't continue. I mean that's kind of like torture and they have to do it every single day which is really painful but there are some good points that I haven't talked about like how Tris and Tobias really do love each other and how brave and kind and selfless Tris is but I leave that for you to figure out if you decide to read it.

There are 5 factions Abnegation, Candor, Amity , Erudite and Dauntless
This book is on Tris's life when she starts in Abnegation with herbrother Caleb ( committed to selflessness) going through a test finding out she's divergent and chooses Dauntless ( courage and bravery ) and her brother chooses Erudite during the choosing ceremony and the hiding of her divergence during initiation process, the process of eliminating unworthy initiates that do not measure up to the faction's standard leaving them factionless which means that they live their lives with no meaning not belonging to any faction but their own group of factionless people and where she meets her instructor, Four a,k.a. Tobias Eaton . The Erudite and Dauntless are plotting to overthrow the leading faction/ the government, Tris's old faction, where her parents live and are a part of, Abnegation.  Being divergent she and Tobias ( yes he's divergent too... well not really but that's later in the series ) are the only ones who can stop Jeanine, the head of Erudite from taking over completely. DO THEY SUCCEED... READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT.

All in all its a good book but its a little too much for me and if they turned it down a little it would be better. Again this only my opinion it doesn't have to feel as if I read your mind. That's all next one is coming out in a couple more hours about 7-8 more hours give or take. OKAY. BYE    

                                  INEZ :9




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TRIS

TOBIAS

CALEB

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIAN

by Rick Riordan

I really love this series just as much as I love The Hunger Games, well almost. I found out that this was a book series after watching the movie adaptions of the first and second book: Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson And The Sea of Monsters. ( for those of you who have not read the books and thought that they did a good job with the movies I just want to say that they messed up the whole story line and it would take me a whole new different post to describe what they messed up and that might even need to be a part 1 and part 2, but I don't really mind the casting.) BTW there is also a love connection between Percy and Annabeth.When Rick Riordan writes he is pretty funny I mean I ALMOST ALWAYS LAUGH. I mean who gives their characters nicknames like seaweed brain.

           But anyway, about the book. The whole series is based on Greek Mythology and Demigods. For those of you who don't know what Demigods are Demigods are half-mortal and half-god. Apparently, the gods of Mount Olympus come down to earth to "hook up" with mortals and that's how Demigods are made. Well, this story is about Percy Jackson and I'm pretty sure you would've guessed that by now, just by reading the title. Percy Jackson is a trouble-prone student who has ADHD and Dyslexia. His world is turned upside down when he finds out that Poseidon, Greek god of the sea. As his mother drives Grover, his best friend/satyr/his protector and him to Camp-Half-Blood, a safe haven for Demigods they get attacked by a Minotaur. Percy defeats the Minotaur but gets knocked out but not before seeing his mother die. Oh yeah, and guess what he's 12. In the book he is accused of stealing Zeus's lightning bolt, the gods are feuding, he finds out that his mom's not dead but her life is in limbo and the only way to get her back is to find the person who stole the lightning bolt... 

PLS! PLS! PLS! READ THE SERIES. TRUST ME YOU WILL LOVE IT. ( Well if you love greek mythology then this is the book for you.) 







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THE HUNGER GAMES :)

by Suzanne Collins             

 I am not going to lie. I am pretty much obsessed with The Hunger Games. It is and most likely will always be my favourite trilogy or book series. I love the story, I love the characters ( although I slightly dislike Gale ), I love the way Suzanne Collins wrote so it feels as if your actually there ( I know people usually say this, but it really does feel like your actually there ), I love the message she's trying to convey and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the love triangle and I know the love triangle isn't exactly the main reason Suzanne Collins wrote her book but it is a beautiful love story. (This trilogy left me bawling my eyes out during the 3rd book, MOCKINGJAY. Possibly because I am an emotionally unstable person, BECAUSE OF READING. )                  

PEETA

THE HUNGER GAMES - A televised battle to death among kids aged 12 - 18 years old ( tributes ) that have been reaped from their perspective district to be contenders in the annual Hunger Games that's held in a special arena that is created and controlled by the Gamemakers. The showdown continues until only one contender is left and crowned victor.



The story revolves around Katniss Everdeen. A 16 year old girl who has taken over as the head of the family after her father died from a mining accident when she was 11 years old. She had to keep herself, her mother and her 7 year old sister, Prim alive.

 During the reaping of the tributes for the 74th Annual Hunger Games her sister, Primrose Everdeen is reaped as the female tribute and she volunteers as tribute to save her sister then Peeta Mellark ( The Boy With The Bread ) who she has a personal connection with even though she has never talked to him is reaped as the male tribute from her district, District 12. 

KATNISS

Their now sent to games after a week or two of being pampered by the Capitol and Katniss wearing one of the most beautiful dresses I've ever read of. Their sent to the games where Katniss faces deadly enemies, killer berries, a foxface, painful wounds, mixed emotions and even has to put her acting and nursing skills to the test. Oh yeah, and her kissing skills too. (This is not a spoiler because she has to survive because if she didn't how could it be a TRILOGY !!!) Soon after the games, she finds out that the Capitol/ President Snow is now out to get her because of a stunt she pulled with the KILLER BERRIES towards the end of the Games.

gale

THIS IS TRULY THE BEST BOOK TRILOGY I HAVE EVER READ AND IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT OR SEEN THE MOVIE YOU MUST HAVE BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK.

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT GO READ IT NOW!!! I BEG OF YOU. 

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inez ;)