Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Ben Pike “Let the seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!” Only one may survive this ultimate battle. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games thrilled me with its suspense and adventure. The story is set in the dystopian far future in North America, all that lies in the ruins of the past is Panem, a country with a Capitol and twelve districts. The Capitol
Read moreAndrew Duggan
Read more“The mechanized world had died. earthquakes and tsunamis had obliterated coasts, and plague had consumed billions.” Rick Yancey’s book The Infinite Sea was a nail biting story of the apocalypse. Cassie and Sam have been running from the others since Evan Walker infiltrated and blew up an alien military installation called Camp Haven. When they left the military installation they
Read moreFor the past few months, Cassie Sullivan has had to endure a visit from aliens called the Others, who are intent on wiping out the population of the Earth, to claim it for themselves. She has had to overcome the plagues and tsunamis that the Others have pushed onto the Earth, and has had to watch over 7 billion people
Read moreKatherine Gardner The Chrysalids John Wyndham Review Set millennia after a nuclear holocaust, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a fascinating novel about a highly religious communities’ attempt to prevent mutation and evolution from occurring while struggling against a type of mutation they cannot detect. Their beliefs are based off of the Old Testament and a novel called Nicholases Repentances.
Read more
A loud rumbling came from the sky, then, a giant barge flies in from over the mountains. A large crowd of villagers gather on the field where the barge seems to be landing. They all are feeling excited and hope this is some kind of good news. Mark and his friends Lana, Trina, Alec and Darnell wait with the rest
Read moreDust, by Hugh Howey, is the third and last book in the Silo series. In Dust, the author leads you on a mesmerizing path that answers questions from Shift, the previous book, and even leaves more questions that wait to be answered. Dust is about how Silo 18 ventures through the secrets of Silo 1, the fallen silos, and
Read more
Wool by Hugh Howey is a suspenseful and adventurous tale about Jules, a mechanic who cares greatly about her job. The story takes place in a silo. However, this is not your ordinary silo; this one is 144 stories and beneath the earth. This silo was built as a bunker for important people in the U.S. government. However, everyone’s memory
Read more
In The Giver, Lois Lowry creates an emotionless world, where there is no conflict, no love, no pain and where no one ever starves. But when a boy named Jonas is given feelings, affection, and anger, he sets out to change the world. Lois Lowry’s The Giver made me philosophize about the meaning of life in ways that I never
Read more
In the novel A Matter of Days, Amber Kizer tells an exciting and suspenseful survival story filled with difficult choices and practical survival techniques. From page one, Kizer hooked me into the world of destruction and deprivation of the BluStar pandemic, a deadly disease. Nadia and Rabbit, the two main characters, survived the pandemic, but unfortunately, their mother died. Their
Read more