Book Reviews

Written By - Kate DiCamillo Edward Tulane. A china rabbit who thinks really highly of himself is loved and cared for by  Abilene Tulane. Abilene loves Edward but he couldn´t care less. He has no affection for anybody. But after unfateful events take place, Edward learns the true meaning of love.  Book picture link -  https://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Journey-Edward-Tulane/dp/140636066X Feel free to leave a comment ^.^

Written By - Gail Carson Levine In Ayortha, singing and beauty are prized above all else. Aza, who was adopted by an innkeeper and his wife, is invited by the duchess on the royal wedding in Ayortha. She has the most magnificent voice but her looks deceive everyone. She is the only non-beautiful one at the wedding. But things go down the hill when Aza becomes the new Queen's lady-in-waiting and she discovers much more about herself and the Queen.

Written By - Gail Carson Levine When Ella was born, many fairies were invited. The royal family also dared invited Lucinda. Lucinda was delighted, so she gave Ella a blessing. A blessing which was also a curse was to be obedient no matter what the circumstances. After Ella is tired of always doing what others say, she sought on an adventure to see how the curse was to be revoked.  Book picture link -  https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/book/ella-enchanted Leave suggestions!

Written By - Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Desperaux follows an adventure of an outcasted mouse named Desperaux Tilling, who sets on a quest to rescue a beautiful human princess from the rats.  Book picture link -  https://www.katedicamillo.com/books/tale.html Leave suggestions =]

Written By - Sarah J. Maas Is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius the queen of Terassan or not? Does she have allies or not? Can she win the war against Erawan? Can she finally live peacefully? These are questions even Aelin is looking for answers for. But she is a labyrinth of secrets and some secrets that even Rowan does not know. But she will not fail her court no matter what the cost. Picture of book link -  https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Storms-Throne-Glass-Sarah/dp/1619636077 Leave a comment =]

Written By - Neal Shusterman Antsy. Just like a normal 8th grader, Antsy is enjoying life. But that stops when he meets his friend, Calvin Schwa. Schwa is a companion struggling to be noticed. Antsy did not even know he was in his class! Schwa goes almost completely overlooked by the people around him. Can Antsy and Schwa, together, make Schwa more obvious?

Written By - Sarah J Maas In this book, Aelin has to carry out her incredible plan. She makes more trustworthy friends and many get injured. Her plan-To free magic. Incredulous! Can Aelin, who can only use her weapons against the King´s mysterious powers, win? Can she kill him without losing more of her loved ones? Find out after reading this book!   

Written By - Sarah J Maas Celaena has reached Wendlyn and within weeks studied how to carry her plan. But she finds the Dark Queen and by her orders starts training so that Celaena can get her answers. She hates her trainer and they occasionally have fights. But they get the better of it. Celaena discovers her true powers and has an adventure of her own. But that is the only way now Aelin, not Celaena can get her kingdom back and kill the wretched king. 

Written By : Sarah J. Maas She has become the King's champion. She now has to go through 4 years of service to be free. But so much magic lurking beneath the palace haunts her. Her love for Dorian ended but is raging for someone else. With Queen Elena giving her one more quest, she discovers who she truly is. 

Written By: Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass is the first book of the series. The book follows the journey of Celaena Sardothien, the world's most famous and feared assassin. But she is now enslaved in Endovier. After suffering for nearly a year, she finally has a chance to gain her freedom. By becoming the king's champion. She must defeat many people to gain her freedom. With so many mysteries and secrets, will she?

Written By: Joanne Harris  Runemarks written by Joanne Harris is a Fantasy genre book set in a world where the Norse Gods still survive as outlaws, their powers gone while a new and powerful group of people, try to wipe out the magic from the world. Maddy Smith is a young girl with a Rune Mark on her hand which associates her with magic, which is banned in her village. Finally, she meets One-Eye, the only person who understands her, who then makes her discover who she really is.  Book Picture Link -  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633446.Runemarks Leave a comment!

Written By: Rick Riordan As Jason was in the Greek demigod camp, Percy is now in Roman camp and things might not go that smoothly. Goddess Hera helped him to get into the camp but the bigger problem is how the Romans will accept him. Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque take sides with him and help him to adjust to the camp. And now he is the son of Neptune. 

Written By: Rick Riordan Athena appears to Annabeth and gives her a quest!  With all the Gaia mess and the Great Prophecy going on, rather than helping, Athena wants Annabeth to avenge her from the disgrace of the Romans. How will Annabeth choose from just getting back Percy and spending time with him or to avenge her mother as all demigods would?

Written By : Veronica Roth Four : A Divergent Collection is written from the perspective of Four. There are still dauntless fights, some are bloody. There isn't any romance involved as this was written Four and Tris met. Though there are some scenes from when they met and his desire for her and their first kiss.

Written By: Veronica Roth Tris and a few of her friends are given a chance to go outside the fence. She thought she and Tobias will find a new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties and painful memories. But as she crosses the fence, past beliefs are rendered meaningless, explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loved. Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and to herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.

Written By : Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and The Olympians is the last book of the Percy Jackson series. Everything is in chaos. The Gods left Olympus undefended to fight Typhon. Posiedon cannot help them as he is fighting his own war with the ancient sea God. The demigods have to face the God of Time, Kronos himself without any Godly backup. The demigods are horribly outnumbered and Clarisse and her cabin don't join the fight. Percy thinks he is leading them to a hopeless war, but there is still hope.

Written By : Veronica Roth  Insurgent is the second book of the Divergent series. After The Abnegation attack and The Dauntless simulation serum, Tobias and Tris make a deal with The Factionless to rage war against The Erudite. As more of Tris's friends die, they are one step closer to winning the war against The Erudite, but everything goes dark when the truth reveals itself.

Written By : Rick Riordan Percy and his friends go on a yet another quest. But this time not on any kinds of transport, but on foot through the labyrinth! Created by legendary creater and artist Daedalus. It is a dark journey as they meet horrible monsters but becomes great for Grover as he meets the only one he searched for his entire life. 

Written By: Rick Riordan Magnus Chase: The Gods of Asgard - The Ship of the Dead is the final book in the Trilogy written by best-selling author Rick Riordan. Loki, now out of his imprisonment is set to start Ragnarok ( The end of the Gods ) on his ship The Naglfar. Magnus Chase and his friends must stop him before it's too late. 

Written By : Veronica Roth Divergent is the first book of the trilogy written by best-selling author, Veronica Roth. Beatrice "Tris" Prior explores her identity within a society that defines their citizens by their social and personality-affiliation with five factions ; Abnegation(The Selfless), Dauntless (The Brave), Candor(The Honest), Erudite(The Intelligent) and Amity(The Kind) which removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and re-threatening the population's safety. Underlying the action focused main plot is the romantic subplot between Tris and one of her Dauntless instructors, nicknamed Four. 

Written By : Rick Riordan Percy and his friends go on a yet another quest. On the way they are threatened and attacked by monsters, one character dies and one appears to. The book is action-packed,dark and violent. There is a bit of swearing, but the biggest problem is how the demigods are born. It talks about Gods sleeping with humans to make the demigods. But overall the book is amazing. 

Written By : Rick Riordan Percy must get the golden fleece back from a cyclops to heal Thalia's tree. Grover is kidnapped by the same cyclops and is Percy is alerted by his empathy link to Grover. The violence is very mild compared to most fantasy violence books. Heroes are magically cured and monsters are defeated and vanish in a puff of smoke but reappear later.  

Written By : Rick Riordan Greek Gods have affairs with mortal women and the resulting children are demigods. It's a fantasy violence including swordplay and fighting monsters. Percy's mom is apparently killed in front of him and his stepfather, who drinks to excess, used to hit his mother. There is also a trip to the underworld, ruled by Hades. 

Written by : Neil Gaiman Coraline is a creepy book and could be disturbing for sensitive kids. The central adventure is about a girl trying to save herself, her parents and some trapped souls from the Other Mother in a secret world. Coraline discovers a dark world with crawling rats, spiders, other creatures. But Coraline also finds her inner braveness throughout the adventure.

Written By : J.K.Rowling The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the second-to-last book of the Harry Potter series. Its a grim,violent and fantasy book. The characters show wonderful qualities such as bravery, loyalty, perseverance and sacrifice, but death still occurs in nearly every chapter. Harry and his friends also get heavily injured but still continue to fight. Harry gets to know many secrets Dumbledore and Severus Snape had kept from him. 

Written By : Rick Riordan The Hidden Oracle is the first book of best selling author Rick Riordan. In this book, Apollo must begin his quests to save the oracles who are captured by Apollo's oldest enemy, Python. He faces many difficulties including, serving the newest demigod Meg and coming up with plans against Emperor Nero ( The guy who is behind this stuff ). The author also unleashes many surprises for his fans. 

Written by : Robyn Schneider Invisible Ghosts is a combination of light romance and a ghost story about a teen named Rose Asher who is struggling after the death of her brother. The book centers on Rose's struggle to visit her brother and be with the only guy who makes her feel alive. The complications arise from both of the relationships. Issues around grief and guilt and how to move on from loss factors largely into the story. 

Written by : Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology is a novelist account of ancient Scandinavian myths. The book is set from the birth of the universe to Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods. The Norse Gods go on adventures and engage in great contests. Things often turning violent ( Thor killing enemies with his magic hammer, Mjolnir ) or very disturbing ( Loki giving birth to his children ) . There's a little sexual content and a bit of drinking, mostly of mead. 

Written by : Rick Riordan The Hammer of Thor, is the second book is the Magnus Chase series. In this book, Magnus continues to be a brave character who feels much empathy for others--especially the loners and the homeless he used to live among. He tries hard both to understand his friends--including a new gender-fluid friend named Alex--and to help Sam who struggles to find a way to tell her betrothed about her second life as a Valkyrie. Plus the God Loki's imprisonment is described in detail: A snake drips venom at his face and he is chained to boulders with the entrails of his murdered sons. 

Written by : Rick Riordan  The Sword of Summer, the first book based on the life of Magnus Chase is about him dealing with the Norse Gods. Magnus has to stop the end of the world (Ragnarok). There's a nasty wolf involved (related to the one who killed his mother two years earlier) ,some drunken giants to kill and some fighting which ends with terrible losses. Oh, and Magnus dies at the beginning of the book but luckily his soul gets transported by a Valkyrie named Sam to a paradise named Valhalla. 

Written by : Kate Edgan The World of the Hunger Games is a definitive, richly illustrated, full color guide to all districts of Panem. The book basically summarizes 'The Hunger Games,' but is brought to life with the spectacular photography.  

Written By : Rick Riordan The House of Hades which is the fourth book of the Heroes of Olympus series, is written about seven demigods and their quest to save humanity from an ancient primordial goddess. The book is combined with plenty of action, danger and humor. The book takes two of the main characters straight to Tartarus. Rick Riordan also introduces his first gay teen demigod, who gets outed by Cupid himself. 

Written by: Rick Riordan The Blood of Olympus which is the fifth and final book of the Heroes of Olympus series is about seven demigods with only a few days at hand before the blood is spilled. The book has a battle of the Greek and Roman demigods joining forces and attacking the monsters unleashed by Gaia. The book has a lot of action and thriller with a twist of humor. Though the question remains the same, 'Will the seven most powerful demigods be able to stop the primordial goddess?'

Written by: Rick Riordan Review: The Lost Hero, is the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series. There are three heroes-Jason Grace, Piper McLean and Leo Valdez. They are in mortal danger and risk their lives multiple times, as they go on their first quest.