If I Say

I started a new book call “If I Stay” by Gayle Forman. Here is a link to the book http://www.amazon.com/If-I-Stay-Gayle-Forman/dp/0525421033. The book starts out with a 17 year old girl named Mia was woken up to the sound of her brothers voice yelling “Snow Day” “Snow Day.” Mia was complaining that there wasn’t that much snow on the ground, soon she called her friend seeing if they wanted to practice. Mia is an outstanding Cello player; she has been playing since she was little. Her parents thought it was a joke at first and laughed at her at first and accepted it, she then began to get privet lessons and became very good at the Cello. All the family got into the car to drop Mia off for practice, when they were driving a truck was going to fast and lost control hitting Mia’s car. Mia woke up looked at her and saw that there was nothing wrong with her, she soon started looking for his parents and discovered that they were both killed in the car accident. She then started to panic and run to go look for her brother; she looked in the car and saw that she was still in there.

The beginning of this book reminds me of the story the women who come in for the prom assembly and told us how both of her parents were killed in a car accident when she was younger. I could not begin to imagine what I would do if my parents were to both die in a car accident. You have to be very strong to be able to get through something like this.   

The Attack

The next part of the book start to tell use about a civil war that has happened in Wonderland. The civil war was against the “White” and “Black” Imagination which ended twelve years prior to the beginning of the story. Alyss know starting here training with her tutor Bibwit Harte is learning a lot on how to control her powers more, but she is still getting into trouble with her best friend Dodge Anders, also known as the Jack of Diamonds. Before she knows it the castle is under attack led by Alyss’ murderous Aunt Redd. Well the attack was going on Alyss is forced to flee Wonderland with the assistance of Hatter Madigan. Soon after she Flees, Redd sends her top feline assassin only known as “The Cat” to pursue them. Alyss is barely able to escape from the palace. The Queen is killed by Redd and Dodge’s father is killed by The Cat.

If this book isn’t Alice in Wonderland it is very similar, the Hatter Madigan as the Mad Hatter and the cat is that one cat from the movie. This book reminds me of the scene from the Lords of the Rings the Two Towers when the enemy was about to get inside the castle, and they send all the women and children away so they could be safe.

 

The Looking Glass Wars

I had to turn in Unwind and picked up a new book called The War of The Looking Glass. From reading the back of the book it looked like this book is going to be full of fantasy, and adventure. Here is a link to the book, http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Glass-Wars-Foundlings-Tale/dp/0803731531

The story then begins with the main characters, Alyss', seventh birthday; Alyss is the princess of the Heart Kingdom of Wonderland. Alyss can control and create all sorts of wonderful and terrible things from her imagination. She loves to play tricks on people in the castle and always gets into trouble. Starting her seventh birthday she has to start classes to become more powerful with controlling her imagination. All seemed happy in the kingdom when the end of the chapter is a soldier being killed on the battlefield.

I don’t know if it is but this book reminds me of the Disney movie Alice and Wonderland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043274/. This book seems interesting I hope that the book will stay with the excitement.     

Storked

After Connor, Risa and Lev escaped the police and got out of the woods they went around a suburb trying to get some different clothes to wear. While they are looking around the neighborhood they look at the day’s paper and discover that there is no report of any three of them missing. Soon after the kids spot a police officer, trying to think quick on their feet the kids quickly decide to get on a school bus to avoid being seen by the cop. Right as Conner was getting on the bus he spots a baby laying on a doorstep waiting for someone to pick it up. Looking at the baby Conner feels terrible when he see the baby just laying there and see the people who live at the house who look disappointed and seems like they don’t want it. In a slit decision Conner decided to take the baby with them.

How could someone just give up a baby when reading this the only thing that was going through mind was how could someone give up their own baby to someone that does even want it. I was wondering when Conner took the baby if he knew what he was going to do with it in the long run, will he keep it, find it a good home, or just leave it at some home.

Triplicate

Conner had one were to go he was trapped by the police. Then out of nowhere he runs into traffic were he snatched a kid named Lev from a car to use as a hostage. When Conner ran into the street he made a bus full of kids that were being sent to harvest camps to overturn, when the bus overturned a girl named Risa the perfect opportunity to escape from the bus. With all the chaos going on Conner was able to slip into the woods with Lev and his new companion Risa. It is not long till they realize that they are being pursued by an officer, the cop stops then and they being to fight. It is not long when Conner gets a hold of the officer’s tranquilizer and shoots him. Having escaped the police Conner, Lev and Risa eventually happen back upon society.

 

I could not begin to imagine what must have been going through Conner’s mind when all of this was going down. First his parents sign his life away now he is running for his life in the woods with two complete strangers.   

Unwind

I stopped reading City of ashes because I just pulling me in anymore, and also I heard good things from a book call Unwind. So I returned City of Ashes and picked up Unwind.

http://www.amazon.com/Unwind-Neal-Shusterman/dp/1416912045

The book starts out telling you what being unwound mean. If you were order to be unwound, you would have your organize taken out and just would help with organ donations or medical research. Hearing this I thought that this book was going to be really gory, it still might be but I am only at the beginning so I don’t yet.

The Main Character is a boy named Connor Lassiter a sixteen year old boy whose parents signed the unwind order because of his constant fighting and getting thrown out of several schools. When he found out that his parents wanted him to be unwound he came up with the idea to run away so that he would prevent himself from being unwound. So in the middle of the night when his parents were sleeping he snuck out the back door and run. He ran for most of the night till he came to a truck stop, he came up with the idea to hind in the bed of one of the trucks. So when he saw one truck driver leave his truck to go to the bathroom he snuck in a hind. But it did not work because the truck driver saw him and confronted him. He told the truck driver we he was hiding, and saw that the driver had a fake arm.

“I was in an accident and lost my arm and had to get some new organize, and I got the organs from a kid that was unwound,” the truck driver said.

Because he was saved from at kid that was unwound he wanted to help Connor out of his jam, so he let him sleep in the back on the truck. Connor woke up to the sound of his cell phone ringing, it was his parents, and since he wanted nothing to do with them he ignored it. Then he noticed that the truck stop, he went outside and saw the truck driver in handcuffs and policemen pointing their guns at Connor.

I could never imagine my parents just giving up on me and letting it so the government would kill me like I was nothing. I am glad that this does not happen in real life, this country would be a lot dark place if it was. This does remind me of an episode of Law and Order however. That was about a 12 year old boy that was arrested for raping some of his classmate, and when the father found out, he wonted nothing to do with his kid.

Prison Break

Know that the high leader has sent Jace to prison he has to say his final good byes before he leaves for an unknown amount of time. It took a long time for Jace to get to the prison, and it was like nothing he would have ever expected. When he got there, there was a guard to take him and a touch to bring Jace to his cell. They walked for a while down many flights of stares. When they finally got to the cell the only light was coming from the touch that the guard had brought with him. When the guard put Jace in his cell and started to walk away Jace started to think, but before long he started hearing a noise, the noise started to get louder and louder. With it being pitch dark and not being able to see anything, Jace for the first time, was scared. When the sound got right nest to the door, it all of a sudden stopped, and the door to his cell opened but there was nothing there. Jace walked out of the cell and started walking, trying to find a touch that would allow him to see. That is were the chapter ended with Jace walking around the prison trying to escape or find some answers.

I would never be able to go through the things that Jace went through when he was at the prison. Being in all dark with no noise would be unbearable. Whenever I read a book that has something to do with jail, police or criminals it reminds me of my favorite T.V. show NCIS. NCIS is about Navy cops which I always enjoy watching. Here is a link to the NCIS review guild.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364845/

The only problem with The City of Ash is that it started out strong but now the book is starting to get a little boring for my taste. I will read a few more chapters in the book, but if it doesn’t pick up I might get a new book.

  

The Judge

The next part of the book was that a high leader in the shadowhunters was coming in to talk to Jace about what happen with his time with Valentine. They were concerned that Valentine had turned Jace to his side and was wondering how far if any he was gone. Before the high leader come everyone wanted to be by Jace’s side, but Jace only wanted two, Clair and Luke. When it came time for the High Leader to come everyone was nerves because if Jace failed he would be sent to one the worse jails in all of Jaces home country. When the High leader finally showed up, her and Jace sat down together and talked about what happened when he was kidnapped. She started asking him really personal questions like did you know he was your father, do you remember his mother, are you going to help out your father. The high leader was starting to make Jace very angry with all the close and personal questions that he was being asked. Jace had his pride however, even though that Valentine was a horrible person he was but he was not going to sell out his own father, and with that he started telling the high leader off. With Jace telling the high leader off got her angry at Jace and said “I will get the respect I deserve, especially for someone like you. After that she said that Jace was going to go to jail until he is willing to cooperate.

The only thing that I can think of that reminds me of this is those really mean substitute teachers that think to highly of themselves and they think there rules are more important then what the normal teacher has taught you. It must have been really hard for Jace to sit there and not be able to do anything about it. I thought it was really good that even though he was threatened he would not give up his beliefs and wouldn’t sell out his father.

The next part in the book jumps to a girl named Maia that didn't really fit into her life, she talks about how she used to date Jace and they had and really bad relationship and a bad brake up. Then one day she was coming home and was attack by something that she had no clue what it was but she did think it was a wolf.

A few days later when there was a full moon, she blacked out and woke up the next morning and had no memories of what has happened. Without knowing what has happened to her she ran away to try to find some answers. The next thing you know she had found out that she was a werewolf and had joined a pack. They are at a bar were the pack is always at when all of a sudden Jace walks into the bar and Maia is surprised that Jace is there. All the other werewolves in the bar start giving Jace dirty looks and one walks up to him tell him the that he doesn’t belong there. With Jace not paying any attention to the werewolf that is trying to get him to leave, making the werewolf mad he starts to attack Jace. The werewolf is no match for Jace and was easily taken down. The next thing we know is that another werewolf runs into the bar yelling for every one to come quick a cub was just killed. Everyone runs out and see a dead cub in an ally with his throat cut, the rest of the chapter is the werewolves trying to find the person how did it with little luck.

Werewolves have always been my favorite mythical creatures, mostly because they are strong, fierce, and it is really hard for them to be killed. Whenever I think of werewolf I always think of the movie Van Halsing because to me it has the coolest werewolves and the coolest fight scenes in it. Here is a link to the movie review.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338526/

City of Ashes

After reading the first book of the series "City of Bones" I wanted to continue on with the series with the next book, City of Ashes. Normally I would not read a book about adventure fantasy, but when I was picking book for my critical reading class last semester, I was told that this was a great book so I gave it a shot. When I read City of Bones I liked it, it was good at keeping you on your feet and give you many twists and turns that you wouldn’t see coming. Here's a link to reviews both City of Bones and City of Ashes
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416955070/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=05M3ZZJDG7BQHBQ11KCT&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

http://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Mortal-Instruments-Cassandra-Clare/dp/1416972242/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297193023&sr=1-1

I know that there wouldn’t be too many guys that would be interested in this book, but I recommend this book to all of them. City of Ashes is a book that is full of action, adventure and a lot of violence for those out there that aren’t looking for a love story, this book would be great from them. Just because this book doesn’t sound that interesting you are in for a big suppose.

City of Ashes begins shortly after City of Bones ends. The main character Clary and two of her friends, Alec and Isabelle are searching for her newly discovered brother Jace who was kidnapped by their ex-guild master how betrayed then in order to be free from the cruse that we put on him many years ago. So the gang heads to the homeland of Alec and Isabelle were they believe that is where Jace was taken.

After searching for a long time they come across a reliable lead as to where their friends might have been taken. It is not an easy journey though on the way they have to fight many demons that almost kill the main characters more than once. When they finally find Jace he is right next to their ex-guild master and Valentine, that main evil person in the story. Valentine starts to take to Clare about her past and what see remembers of it, and then finally admits to Clare that he is Clare and Jace father. In total shock and denial Clary is stunned which forces then to have to leave, but they were able to get Jace out of there in the process.

When Valentine told Clare that he was her father the first thing that popped into my head was that scene from star wars where Darth Vader tells Luke that he was his father, because it was told in the same way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwExDG7n7Zg&feature=related

Knowing that there is one more book in these series I don’t think that there are going to be really anything big in this story, I think that they are just going to be answering a lot of question, and it won’t be until the final book were something big will happen.