Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Want by Magus Tor book review

     This tells the story of seventeen year old Aurelia who just graduated from school and is heading to Lunar City on the Moon.  This takes place after World War 3 and there is a new world order from a group called the Elitists.  Aurelia has just graduated from school and is a med worker.  She graduated at top of her class.  While at the shuttle station she meets a Clone named Nicholas who is also on his way to Lunar City.  While on the way there the ship is attacked by a group called the Resistance.  It turns out that the group was after Jonathon Hanson who is up to be the next president of the order.  Aurelia, Nicholas, and Jonathon race against time to stop whoever it is by stopping them from the goal of killing Jonathon.
     I liked how this was written.  The characters were well developed and written very well.  I could not stop reading this until the very end.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Flowers in the attic by V.C. Andrews book review

     This tells the story of 4 siblings name Christopher, Cathy, Carrie, and Cory who lives are changed when their father dies in a car accident.  Their mother Corrine then writes to her parents for help.  Corrine gets a letter from her mother saying that Corrine and the children can come and live at her parents house.   They leave in the middle of the night and arrive at Foxworth Hall that Corrine's parents own.  The siblings find out that their mother came from a very wealthy family.  The children don't understand why Corrine and her parents have not talked for so long.  The grandmother meets them and takes them up to a bedroom that is connected to the huge attic of the house.  The children find out that they are going to have to stay in this room until their grandfather dies and that their mother is written back into the will.  The months turn into years and the children find out that over the years their mother remarried without telling them.  Then the children start getting sick and can't figure out why.  Cory gets so sick that the children beg their mother to take him to the hospital.  THe mother comes back and tells the children the next day that Cory has passed away and was buried under another name.  The other 3 then start planning an escape when they realize that they are never going to leave the room.  The older child Christopher then makes a copy of the key to get out of the room to steal stuff to sell for money for the children to survive out on the streets.  While Christopher is out stealing items, he finds out that their mother had been poisoning them with arsenic and advises that they have to leave the next morning early.  They end up escaping and getting on a train heading toward North Carolina.
     I really liked how this book was written.  I like that it was written in the point of view of the middle child Cathy.  The characters are really well written and I could almost picture myself being Cathy and going through what she was going through.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Family Storm by V.C. Andrews review

     Family Storm tells the story of Sasha Porter and how she came to be in the home of a wealthy family the Marches.  In the beginning we find out that Sasha's father left her mother and her with no money to survive.  Sasha's mother tries to get work but her alcoholism gets in the way and losses every job she gets.  They end up being homeless and living on the street.  They survive by the mother selling calligraphy and Sasha making key chains.  On a stormy day, Sasha and her mother are heading toward the beach and are crossing a cross walk.  When a speeding car hit both Sasha and her mother.  Sasha blacks out and wakes up in the hospital and finds out that her mother died in the accident.  Not know what to do Sasha lays in the hospital bed in shock.  A couple days later Mrs. March comes to the hospital and tells Sasha that she id going to live with them.  When asked why Mrs March tells Sasha that her daughter Kiera was driving the car that hit Sasha and her mother while high on drugs.  Sasha agrees to live with the Marches and it causes a lot of tension in the house.  Especially with Kiera.  Kiera goes to court and has to go to therapy by court order, which Kiera is not too happy about.  Sasha finds out just by watching Kiera that Kiera is a master manipulator especially with Mr March.  After a while Kiera starts becoming nice to Sasha and Sasha thinks that they are now going to be friends.  It turns out that Kiera set up Sasha to be raped and get labeled a bad seed so that Sasha would be kicked out of the house.  Then Kiera almost dies from a drug overdose and the friends that had help Kiera get Sasha in trouble confess to their parts in the scheme and Sasha ends up staying with the Marches.
     I really liked how this book was written and how the characters interact with each other.  I loved that you can almost fell the emotion of what Sasha is going through.  I will admit the part where she felt betrayed by Kiera had me literally crying for her because how it was written you could feel Sasha's pain and feeling of betrayal.  I also liked seeing how Sasha's character evolves into herself even though it looks like through out the book Mrs March is trying to turn her into their dead daughter Alena.  I give this book 5 stars just by how moving and keeping the reader engaged until the very end.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

H.A.L.F.: The Deep Beneath review

Three teenagers in the desert find out about a secret government program that has been making alien human hybrids since the Roswell crash.  They end up getting captured and taken to the facility.  While there they find out why the hybrids were created and that from the hybrid that they helped the aliens are coming back for the hybrid.
    I thought this book was really suspenseful and I could not put down my tablet while I was reading it.

H.A.L.F.: The Deep Beneath by Natalie Wright ebook