Review: Rapunzel has SCIDs (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) and so, unable to go out into the world, for fear of germs that would make her sick and possibly kill her, she stays in a tower with only her mother to visit her. Her mother has forbade Rapunzel to use her computer for anything other than schoolwork, but one day, while searching for 'face' for a biology project, she comes across Facebook and makes an account. She "meets" a boy named Fane on her account and becomes friends with him by chatting with him online. When her mother goes out of town for a few days, she invites him over and they begin to find out that everything isn't as it seems in Rapunzel's home. Warning! There might be spoilers beyond this point.
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This is a retelling of Arabian Nights. Review: Shahrayar has been betrayed by his wife, who he loved. Hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. As his wife dies, she tells him that he will not find peace until he has found a woman who could read his heart and one whose he could read. His way of avoiding betrayal endangers every one of the maidens in his kingdom. One night of every month, by the light of the full moon, he will marry a maiden and the next morning she will die. But if a woman should step forward and volunteer to be his bride, he will kill her only and spare the lives of the rest of women. Shahrazad, the daughter of a great storyteller, steps forward to be his bride. She believes that it is her destiny to accept the risk and sacrifice herself, but she has a plan, in which she hopes to be able to see the king's heart. So, to buy time, on her wedding night, Shahrazad begins a story. The king, finding a need to know the end of it, lets her live, night after night. Just when Shahrazad dares to believe that she's found a way to keep her life, and an unexpected love, a treacherous plot disrupts her plan. Now she can only hope that love is enough to save her. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
Review: This is a fun mix of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood. Gen is a sensible, logical girl, while her brother Jack is the impulsive dreamer. Gen and Jack have grown up to their mother's stories about the World Above, a world in the clouds where she used to live. While Gen took them to just be bedtime stories, Jack took the literally and believed with his whole heart in the World Above. When the crops are failing, they are forced to sell Agapanthus, their cow. Jack goes to sell her and doesn't even get into town. Along the way he meets an old lady who sells him magic beans in trade for the cow. When he gets home, his mother rejoices, because she recognizes the beans and can finally go to her old home in the World Above where she used to be a duchess, before an evil man usurped the throne. Jack goes first to explore the world above, and he doesn't come back, so Gen goes after him and figures out that he's been captured. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this line.
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. 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!!! 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. |
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