The Lightning Thief

Title: The Lightning Thief 

Author: Rick Riordan

Rating: 5/5

Series: Percy Jackson and The Olympians

Bookworms Appeal: Teenager?
                                    : Adventure?
                                    :Romance?
                                    :Suspense?
                                    :Of a gender?
                                    :Greek Mythology?

You've found your book.


REVIEW AND BACKSTORY

I found nothing in this book that could deter me from giving it a 5. It had suspense, romance, adventure, comedy and yes I admit the writing was slightly juvenile but, Rick Riordan is writing as a teenage demigod, what did you expect. I really love this series, 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.

Summary

           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 frciend/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... 



Go read the BOOK. NOW!!!!!

"It must have been love but, it's over now. It must have been love but I lost it somehow."
                                                                                                             -it must have been love, glee.




  

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

 Title   : The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict 

Author: Trenton Lee Stewart

Rating : 4.99999/5 (I'll explain later)

Series  : Prequel

Bookworms appeal: Read?
                                     Of any age?
                                     Adventure?
                                     Mystery?

If your anyone of these things, you've just found a book that will never be in your bookshelf. (if you don't get it I mean that you'll be leaving it at random places because it's the book you'll take                                                                                    out to read whenever your bored.)                                                                                                                                                             


REVIEW

This is basically a prequel to his series THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY, this is basically a book on how things got started. 

It's a beautifully written book that is full of excitement and sad moments and how Nicholas pulls through the good and the bad. This book left me crying at some points but laughing at some points too (mostly crying). 


Why I rated it a 4.99999/5? Because (this is only my opinion and if you want to take it into account I suggest that you only take a small part of this into consideration because my opinion is highly unreliable.) I think he should've put in more romance and I know it might seem a little unimportant compared to the mess of his life but I am a romantic at heart, a romantic who longs for one sweet kiss in the story but, other than that the book was/is amazing you guys should totally read the book, it is AMAZING.

SUMMARY

The is about the amazing nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict. Nicholas is an orphan, and also has narcolepsy, a condition that gives him terrible nightmares that leave him falling out of his bed and makes him fall asleep at the worst possible moments, he could be walking up the stairs and literally fall asleep right there. In this book his sent to a new orphanage, where he meets John his best best friend (I know I said best twice) and The Spiders, a group of 3 vicious bullies  who torments everyone/all of the orphans, selfish adults like Mr. Collum the director/the person in charge of the  orphanage/the manor/ child's end who locks Nicholas in a room  so that nobody can hear him screaming at night during one of his many nightmares. This is also where he finds out about a certain treasure that could be one of the greatest mysteries of his young life and also one of the reasons he meets Violet, a talented artist. And all of this happens because of MR COLLUM AND HIS BEAUTIFUL LEDGER. 


This book is suitable for anyone at any age and it's one of my all time favorites. If you can read, this book's for you. 

"I got all I need when I got you and I, as I look around me I see a sweet life. I'm stuck in the dark but your my flashlight. Your gettin me, gettin me through the night."
                                                                                                       -Barden Bellas, Flashlight

Divergent

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Title     :Divergent (why do I even bother)

Author:Veronica Roth

Rating :3/5

Series  :Divergent Series

Bookworm appeal: Romance?

                                  :  Rebelling?

                                  : Violence?

                                  :Teenager?

You've found your new favourite read!

REVIEW

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 her kissing him intimately 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.

SUMMARY
There are 5 factions Abnegation, Candor, Amity , Erudite and Dauntless This book is on Tris's life when she starts in Abnegation       (committed to selflessness) with her brother Caleb 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.    

(BTW if you like books with romance like this you should totally read Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry. It's my cousins favorite read, and she's a sucker for romance)                           

“I wish that I could be like the cool kids, like the cool kids.”

                                                                                            -Echosmith      

TOBIAS

TRIS

CALEB

The Land of Stories

Small note

(OMG! I love, love, love Chris Colfer, a.k.a. Kurt Hummel on Glee, that sadly ended with only 12 episodes in Season 6. My theory is that they stopped at season 6 because Cory's not there anymore and they didn't want to do it without him. If my theory is proven right, that would be so SWEET.)

This one is taken from my old blog as well and it's not like I'm trying to be lazy or anything but I spent a lot of time writing these reviews and my perception of them hasn't changed and I really,really want you bookworms to read my work so buck up cause it's along one. (So just to clarify, like I said in my earlier post, the posts from today (well some of them) are going to be from my old blog and I really love you guys, okay?) 


REVIEW

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.

        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? 

So please share if you like what you see. A big shout out to Akshar Joshi for making me one of the happiest bloggers in the world.


"I remember tears streaming down your face when I said I'd never let you go."
                                                                                                                                             -Taylor swift

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET




  There is story on how I came to read this book. I was about 8 years old when the book came about in the year 2007. When I was 9 years old I had just started reading 300 paged books when my aunt bought me this huge book with tons of pages I thought I it would've taken me at least a month to read the book but I finished it in 3 hours. This book is a complete package, its beautifully written, the story's great, the characters are magical and the illustrations are just....they leave you speechless. The writer, Brian Selznick must be a complete package too since he illustrated the book and wrote it as well. But anyway, when the movie Hugo premiered in 2011 with Asa Butterfield as Hugo and Chloë Grace Moretz as Isabelle. Asa also stars in the book to movie adaption of Ender's game as Ender and Chloe stars as Mia in the movie adaption of if i stay, I didn't realize I was watching the movie adaption of Hugo until I looked back at the book. 

DRAWINGS FROM THE BOOK

             The story is told by Hugo, a young orphan boy. He lives in a small apartment above a train station in the 1900's and secretly keeps the clocks in the station running after the disappearance of his uncle the man who actually works for the train station and the death of his father who died in a fire ( I cried when he talked about how he felt with his father gone ) . The only piece of his life before becoming an orphan is an automaton that was discovered by his late father. It is seriously messed up and needs serious repairs, before it can tell Hugo the secret that he has been keeping for so long, which Hugo believes is from his father. Having no resources to the missing pieces that he needs to fix the automaton he steals tiny pieces from Georges Melies the owner of a toy booth in the train station. He meets Georges goddaughter, Isabelle. The other half of the story is of the consequences of his thefts, the growing of the sweet friendship between Hugo an Isabelle, of his many, many, many secrets, the connection between Isabelle,the automaton and the message the automaton delivers and how it links to Isabelle's Papa Georges history with the French cinema. 
         
          It is a beautiful book with a wonderful story, a book I think everyone should read.

Raven's Gate, The Power of Five

Raven's Gate
Anthony Horowitz

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.

P.S. to ANYONE who calls this series stupid I HATE YOU!

The next few post

So, the next few post will be from my old blog NooEscape. So that's about it, my fellow bookworms.

"I'm all out of love, what am I without you."
                                                                    -All out of love