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: Sam Hopkins is a preacher's kid and hates how everyone thinks that they have to be perfect around him. So he joins a gang, and begins to see that he made the wrong decision. When his new "friends" start harassing his slightly eccentric classmate, Jennifer, Sam manages to stand up to them and save her. Jennifer now considers Sam her "magic friend" and confides in him, sharing visions of demons and death. While everyone thinks she's crazy, Sam begins to suspect that her visions may actually be prophesies that could cause catastrophe if they're not stopped. And he's the only one who believes her...so can he stop these disasters before it's too late. You see that dead guy by the side of the road? Yeah, the one lying in a pool of his own blood with his face all messed up and his clothes all torn and dirty. That's me. Sam Hopkins. And okay, I'm not really dead, or at least not completely. I've just been beaten up. A lot. Badly. Which I guess is a little bit better than dead...although when I think about how I'm going to have to explain this to my parents—frankly dead doesn't seem like such a bad alternative. Warning! There may be spoilers below this line.
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!
Forced to choose between military school and a Christian spy organization, Spencer Garmond chooses the spy organization, thinking it's some sort of Bible club. Before he even boards the plane to go on a mission's trip to Moscow, he can tell that it's not a normal Bible study. As time goes on he begins to have strange prophetic visions and gets mixed up with a gang of homeless boys, a mysterious tattoo and a suspicious woman and finds himself in the middle of a mess that he's not sure he can solve. Warning! May be spoilers beyond this point. Review: Hadley missed her flight by four minutes and at the time it seemed inconvenient, but looking back, she realizes that if she hadn't missed that flight, she never would have met Oliver--a cute British guy who happens to be on the flight she had to reschedule for. She's on her way to her dad's wedding to a woman she's never met. She doesn't want to go, but she's kind of forced to. She meets Oliver when he helps her with her suitcase and he keeps her company for the three hours waiting for her next plane and distracts her from her claustrophobia on the seven hour flight to London. Okay, so yes, this is a love story. So if you hate romance, this is definitely not a book for you. But for a romantic sap like me, I loved it. Warning! There may be spoilers beyond this point.
Review:Miranda is in sixth grade when she begins to receive mysterious letters from an anonymous person. It says, "I am coming to safe your friend's life, and my own. I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter." Then the key for their apartment is stolen as well as a pair of shoes and Miranda keeps getting the notes. The person seems to be able to tell the future, listing clues in his note and then having them happen days later. She's beginning to believe that someone's life is in danger. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this point! 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. 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.
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.
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