Review: Joe Roberts lives a life that sorely lacks adventure. He helps his mother with the general store they run and tries to get along with his despised cousin, Lucas. So when the Civil War begins and people begin to rally and enlist, his patriotic spirit gets the better of him and he signs up to fight in the war, unknowingly joining the same Company that his cousin Lucas is in. Positive content: The whole entire moral of the story has an awesome message, but I'll let you figure that out for yourself. Violent content: Uh...it's a war...Nothing gory or anything. A brief description about the blood covered field. Sexual content: None Language: The only thing is that Lucas refers to something as h---ish. Overall Opinion: This was an amazing book, although I was skeptical at first. The character arc was masterfully done. It was short and sweet and I read it in a day. And I cried. Need I say more? I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes historical fiction (or even someone who doesn't. I don't tend to like historical fiction and I loved it.) The writing could have been better with the word usage and sentence structure and all, but everything else was masterfully done.
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Review: Charlie West wakes up in a room, strapped to a chair, without a memory of where he is or how he got there. Outside the door, he can hear a man giving orders to kill him. He later figures out that he's lost a whole year of his life. He can't remember any of it. Now, terrorists are trying to kill him and the police are after him, charging him with the murder of his best friend, Alex and Charlie doesn't know where to turn. Without his memory, he's unable to prove his innocence, and even begins to doubt himself. Is he one of the good guys or one of the bad guys?
Warning! May be spoilers beyond this point! Review: With an upcoming interview at the Manhatten music conservatory, Finley needs to compose her audition piece. But her creativity disappeared with the death of her older brother, Will, who died in a terrorist attack. She decides to study abroad in Ireland so she can follow Will's travel journal. Since his death, she's shut God out and now, when she needs him, she feels as though he's ignoring her. Since, it's the place he felt closest to God, and she's hopeful being there will help her make peace over losing him. On the plane from America to Ireland, she meets Beckett Rush, teen heartthrob and Hollywood bad boy, who is flying too Ireland to finish filming his latest vampire movie. She's the one girl who seems immune to his charm. Undeterred, Beckett convinces her to be his assistant in exchange for his help as a tour guide. Once in Ireland, Finley starts to break down. The loss of her brother, the pressure of school, her audition, and whatever it is that is happening between her and Beckett, leads her to a new and dangerous vice. When is God going to show up for her in this emerald paradise? Warning! There may be spoilers beyond this point!
This book is about a ten-year-old girl who is trying to discover whether God is real after the death of her dad, a man loved by everyone, a man who she calls Prince Tennyson, because of his chivalry and the fact that he was a handsome soldier and that he looked like a prince in his uniform. Her mom had a mental breakdown after he died and so they moved to live with her grandma. Chelsea wants to know if God's real, because if he isn't, when her dad died, he wouldn't have gone to heaven and she would never be able to see him again. I probably would have cried if I hadn't been in the living room with my dad and my sisters, as well as one of my cousins. Such a good book. I walked over to the little dresser. It had a shelf above it, and on that shelf there were a bunch of pretty ballerina figurines. One of them was broken. She was wearing a purple tutu and both of her arms were off and lying next to her. Warning: There might be spoilers beyond this point. Continue at your own risk. But remember, I warned you.
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