Reapers: Review: Phoenix is a reaper, which means that, when a person dies, he takes their soul and transports them to their final resting place at the Gateway. He meets two other Reapers named Singapore and Shanghai and they start to suspect that the Gateway isn't all it's supposed to be. They're not sure if they are actually bringing the souls to a safe resting place, like they always tell the grieving family members. When a friend of Phoenix is accused of medicine smuggling and is taken to a labor camp, he decides to try and save them and find out what is really beyond the Gateway with his two friends. But can he trust them? Sing seems to be keeping secrets. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
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This is a set of three retold fairy tales. Before Midnight: Review: This is a retelling of Cinderella. There is a baby born in the D'este home, but when this little girl is born, her mother, Constanze dies and her father blames the girl. The fires in the house suddenly go out, but when the little girl cries, the fires are re-lit and she earns her name, Cendrillon, the child of cinders. When her father remarries, her step-mother doesn't know that he has a daughter, and mistakes Cendrillon as a servant. This is a set of three retold fairy tales. Golden: Review: This book also begins at the birth of the protagonist. A woman is pregnant, but she is wasting away, because of her unquenchable craving for rapunzel, a type of parsley that grows in the sorceress's garden next door. Finally the husband cannot stand it any more and steals some rapunzel from the garden. When he is caught, the sorceress allows him to have as much rapunzel as he wants on one condition, that they will love the baby with everything in them. If they can't, then she will have the baby and love her as her own. The problem with this bargain is that the mother is incredibly vain and wishes for her daughter to have golden hair like she possesses. When the baby is born bald, her mother cannot stand her and declares that she could not possibly love this baby. The sorceress takes the baby and vows to love her as if she was her own daughter. The little girl earns her name, Rapunzel, after the herb that caused all this trouble. Rapunzel grows up without hair in a cottage outside town. The sorceress loves her dearly. When Rapunzel is thirteen a man comes by their house, a tinker and he has an adopted son named Harry. And as much as Harry and Rapunzel tease each other, they start to like each other, as friends. Finally the sorceress tells Rapunzel that her biological daughter is cursed by a wizard to stay in a tower and the only way that her curse can be broken is by love. And Rapunzel is destined to break that curse. Wild Orchid: Review: All Mulan wishes is that she was born a boy. She wants to be free and hates the idea of staying in the house to learn skills that most Chinese women possess. She has no other desire than to learn how to read, write, shoot arrows, ride horses, etc with her best friend Li Po. Her father is the emperor's greatest general and she has never met him. He was fighting a war when her mother died and he never returned home. Mulan has the idea that he hates her. When he comes home, she finds a way to love him and he a way to love her. When the emperor commands a man to come from every household to fight the attack of the Huns on China, Mulan decides to go in her father's place. He is old and still not quite healed from an old wound and she knows he will never survive. Warning: There may be spoilers below this line. Review: Kelsey Hayes gets a two week summer job at the circus. While he was preforming, the white tiger seems to look straight at her. She can't shake the feeling that the tiger had some sort of intelligence. When she visits it after-hours, she begins to form a bond with the tiger, Ren. Something about him intrigues her. When she talks to her he seems to understand. When the tiger is bought from the circus, Kelsey is asked to escort the tiger and take care of it on it's way to India. When she finally gets to India, she figures out that this was more then she'd ever bargained for.
There may be spoilers beyond this point!!! Review: The Name of this Book is Secret is meant for younger readers, but that doesn't mean it's not a fun read for teens. The author says it better in the inner flap of the book, so I'll just quote him: You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story is, too. For it contains a secret--a big secret-- that has been tormenting people like you for over...oh no! Did I just mention the secret? Then it's too late.. ------------------------------------------------Cassandra and Max-Ernest are average eleven-year-old kids who go to the same school, but never really cared to talk to each other. That is until Cass finds a box called the Symphony of Smells that was supposedly found in a magician's house who died in a fire in the kitchen of that very house. Cass doesn't believe that the magician's really dead though, and goes with Max-Ernest to investigate his house. When she finds a secret room with the magician's diary, it launches her and Max-Ernest on an adventure, neither of them would have never dreamed of. Read the first part here: Warnings: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
This is going to be a very short review since I only got about one chapter in. The story idea is great. America is pressured to enter the Selection, the program where the prince will select thirty girls at random and narrow them down, until he falls in love with one of them. The problem is, America doesn't want to enter, but when she does by pressure from her love and her family, she is picked, much to her dismay. But she's already in love with another boy named Aspen. His family is a much lower rank then hers, and in the caste system that America lives in, she's not allowed to marry someone of a lower caste. Then she meets the prince, Maxon, and he starts to fall in love with her, and she is slowly starting to fall for him, against her better judgement. The Candlestone, the sequel to Raising Dragons, continues to tell the story of Billy Bannister and Bonne Silver, the children of dragons. Bonnie collides with her father, a man who has been in her nightmares ever since he betrayed her and her mother. Her father seeks to reconcile himself with her, bringing news that her mother, whom Bonnie had previously thought dead, is actually alive. Bonnie decides to go with him and ends up diving into the candlestone to retrieve her mother, whom she believes is in it. Is her father deceiving her? Or is her mother truly alive? There may be spoilers beyond this point Review: Raising Dragons follows Billy Bannister as he begins to notice strange changes in himself. His breath is getting abnormally hot. After he sets off the fire alarms at school with his breath one day, he finally figures out that his father was a dragon, turned human. Now running from blood-thirsty dragon slayer, Devin, he meets Bonnie Silver, a young lady who has been hiding dragon wings in a backpack for years. There may be spoilers beyond this point. Review: Martyr--otherwise known by his scientific name J:3:3--is one of hundreds of clones kept underneath the earth in a secret lab called the Jason Farms. He believes that he is created to serve his purpose, to sacrifice himself to save humanity, and expire when he's 18. With a month until he expires, Martyr has one wish--to see the sky. Dr. Max has taught him about the sky and the sun and stars and he wants to see them for himself. Abby Goyer just moved to Alaska for her dad's new mysterious job. She's trying to adapt to the new life where the sun is only shining about six hours of the day and the temperature is constantly below zero. She could never guess what was really happening at the farm where her dad works or what would happen when a strange boy shows up one night at her house asking about the stars. As what's happening illegally at the Jason Farms is being revealed, Martyr has to decide between two futures. The one for which he was produced and the one Abby believes God created him to have. Time is running out, and Martyr must decide if a life with Abby is worth leaving everything he's ever known. The content below may contain spoilers! |
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