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Carol (Iowa) The Host by Stephenie Meyer -- With the last page, I wanted more or perhaps to read it again! It feels as though this book offers a formula for world peace. And to think this story is told through the eyes of an alien!
Character emotions and interactions simply blossom and flame, from chapter to chapter. Meyers has the reader feeling like these characters are all family, good and bad, but all accepted for who they are! It was hard to put the book down. What a phenomenal read!
Shawn (Iowa) Things Not Seen by Andrew CLements. The book shows that no matter waht you get yourself into theres always a way out and that you showuld always look for hope in the future. The book takes place in Chicago. A boy wakes up one morning and he is invisible. He is very scared and and only his family knows his secret. He meets a blind girl. Together them and their families try to figure out what caused this and how they are going to fix it. meanwhile the school and police departments are aware of his dissapearance and are blaming the boys parents. If he doesnt get himself back to normal his parents could be arrested. Read the book and find out what happens.
Ginny (Iowa) Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. How much of our life is affected by the earth's moon. A meteor hits the moon. The cycles of life are drastically changed. Grocery stores run out of food; electricity is intermittent; and school is dismissed. Told in diary format, Miranda and her family work to survive or not. Read this book and find out.
Tommy (Iowa)--Prey by Michael Creighton. You do not know what is going to happen from one second to the next. This is a high tech story. Read it today!
Dennis (Iowa)--Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. This book is much better than the movie. It has many gripping twists and turns, throughout the development of the plot. It is a must read on my list.
Kathy (Ohio)--Feed by M.T. Anderson. This book takes place in a not-so-distant future society where everyone has a computer feed implanted in their brains. The teens in the book are barely literate with limited vocabularies. Their thoughts and emotions are influenced and controlled by the advertisers that download the ongoing barrage of media messages. The horrific part of this book is looking at our own teens and becoming aware of how what they think, how they dress and what they talk about are influenced by consumerism and the media messages they see on tv, in movies and from music.
Kim (Iowa) - Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz - Schyler Van Alen is half human and half vampire and a teenager learning how to live in both worlds. This book is well written and is a book that people who aren't particularly into vampires would enjoy reading. I can't wait to read the sequel to this book called Masquerade.
Phillip (Iowa) - Halo Books by Eric Nylund & William C. Dietz - Although these books are for more mature readers, it is very interesting to see the story of the Halo game unfold in these books. There are currently 4 books that I have read: (listed in chronological order) The Fall of Reach, by Eric Nylund; The Flood, by William C. Dietz; First Strike, by Eric Nylund; and The Ghosts of Onyx, by Eric Nylund. There is also one that does not relate to the Halo storyline called Contact Harvest, by Joseph Staten.
Nic Parker
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The book Angels of Darknessis a book set in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40k, a universe where many different alien races and the forces of the Imperium of Mankind fight wars for their own purposes. This book follows the story of two space marines, genetically enhanced humans, from the chapter of the Dark Angels, one who is the Chaplain, or religious marine, and the other who is a Fallen, a marine who defected from the Imperium. I think the theme of the book is about religion and what a person believes is right.
The main characters of the story are Interrogator-Chaplain Boreas of the Dark Angels, and his combat squad of four regular space marines, the Apothecary, a medical space marine, and the Techmarine, the engineer of the unit. The book is told through the third person perspective, alternating between Chaplain Boreas and the Fallen space marine and his interrogation. The setting changes occasionally for Boreas and the squad, but for the Fallen it remains the same throughout the book, in the interrogation cell. The conflict for Boreas is finding more of the Fallen that have been sighted in his area of space, and for the Fallen it is between himself and Boreas, and trying to get Boreas to see things through his perspective.
I’m 16 and I read this book for personal enjoyment; and for popular fiction. I have been meaning to read a warhammer 40k novel for a while. My expectations were high for this book; I know the story of the series and was expecting it to follow through. The book surpassed my expectations. The writing style was really well written, the story solid and exciting, and I found it hard to put it down.
The characterization of the characters was well done, the author told many details about the characters and their past. The book was full of suspenseful moments, really makes the reader want to find out what happens next. It explains what the environment looks like and the details about everything that happens. The word choice and overall writing style was effective.
The theme of religion and what a person believes is right and wrong can be asked to themselves by the reader, maybe some people question their faith and whether what their doing is right or not.
Anybody who is a fan of the warhammer 40k game and series should definitely read this book, even if they aren’t a fan of the Space Marines or the rest of the Imperium. Tau are better, but I do really like the Space marines. The book is appropriate for people maybe 16 and above, as it is a little violent. I give this book a perfect score.
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