Max

YAY! I was soooooo happy that this book came out and even happier when I read it cause it was MUCH better then anticipated. Even with all the "that is so weird!" moments it was still really good!

OK this book is Max by James Patterson. It's actually book 5 in a series of books called Maximum Ride and for the most part it's pretty good. The rest is like "OH stop shoving that down our beaks!" Lol You'll see why i said beaks in a moment.

Max is a normal 14 year old girl for about ..... a page in the first chapter. Then you find out something really neat about her. Max can fly. Max is 98% human and 2% Avian. She has a pair of 13ft. wings and can fly!

The series is basically about Max and her flock: Fang, Iggy, Gasman and Angel and how they try to get away from The School (aren't we all? Lol)

I can't realy say alot about the books because I coudl really ruin them. Just be warned, theres a ton of Global Warming stuff in a few of the later books so if you really hate hearing about it well then close your eyes when your reading it. :)

A Northern Light

OK so I found this book A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly at Borders for $2.99! WHAT A DEAL! I've been looking for this book for a looooong time and I found it! I thought it was great! Its based on true events too!

It's a fictonal story about a girl named Mattie (Matilda) who is a watress at the Glenmore Hotel in Big Moose Lake, New York in 1906. One day while working there one of the guests, Grace Brown asks her to burn a packet of letters for her. Mattie says she will but forgets to do so. A few days later Grace Brown in pulled out of the lake. It looks like she just drowned but Mattie has a feeling their is something much more sinister behind this young women's death.

Now the chapters flip back and forth. Past to present. In the chapters about the past you learn a lot about Mattie. She loves to read and she and her friend Weaver are the only two students in their entire town who are trying to get their high school diplomas. Its such a small logging town that no one bothers to do so because the boys know they will only ever be loggers and the girls know that their place is at home. Mattie and Weaver try to break those rules and both want to go do something More then what they are told they can be. They both want to go to college. Big dreams for them seeing as Mattie is a girl and Weaver is black.

There are many morals to this book but the main moral is about using your voice through writing. I thought the writer did a great job describing a lot of thing. I would really though recommend this book to just girls unless guys don't mind reading about all the little details of a women giving birth. Yeah it was really gross so if you dont want to read that skip the chapter titled Wan. Most of the chapters dont have titles but some of them do.

But anyways like i said this is accually based on a real murder. There really was a Grace Brown and she really was murdered on Big Moose Lake and it was one of the biggest murder triels in history. You can accually get anothe rbook out that has all her love letters in it. I'm going to get tha tbook out next. :) Hope you enjoy this book!

The Chosen One

OK so I found this book online and I really wanted to read it because it sound pretty good. It took the library some time to get it but i finally got it! Its called The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams.

Its about this thirteen year old girl, Kyra who has grown up her whole life in this isolated community with the people called The Chosen Ones. They were supposedly chosen by God himself to lead these lives that to them are what God has told them to do. It get to heaven a man must have 3 wives and for a women to get to heaven she must marry and have as many children as her body will allow. They don't read books besides the Bible. The women cover ever inch of skin on their bodies and do nothing but have babies. Kyra has 3 mothers and 21 brothers and sisters and 2 more are on they way.

One day her family receives a visit from The Prophet. He was chosen by God to be a leader of The Chosen Ones and if you disobey the word of the Profit that sliek disobeying a direct command from God and you are severely punished. The Prophet comes to her family and tells them that he has had a vision form God. In the vision there was a girl sitting at this mans feet. The man he says is Hyrum, Kyras 60 something year old uncle and the girl at his feet it Kyra. The Prophet says it is God will that Kyra marry her Uncle Hyrum and become his 8th wife.

Now your probably thinking that everyone in this weird cult it totally messed up and i though so too but while reading you come to realize that this is all they have ever known. They have been told that everything that is not what they believe is of Satan.

Kyra thinks this is a punishment from God because she does two things in secret that are forbidden in the community. She reads. She has a library card and gets books from a mobile library. Also she has a boyfriend. This to them is commiting adultery because they arnt married and they arnt ment for each other. But she nad Joshua are really in love. When she askes him who his other two wives would be he says he dosnt want any other wives but her. Thats saying alot cause you need 3 to get into heaven.

I wont tell you what happens because this was a nail biter. Does she end up marryign her Uncle or does she get to marry Joshua? Does she escape from the the cult? WHAT HAPPENS! iell d yout. will nto tell you. :) Read it and find yourself! :)

Looking for JJ

This book took me just one night to read. I was up till 2 but it was worth it. This was really good and I didn't even get it out! Sam got it and she just picked it up off the shelf. She didn't even know what it was about. Its called Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy.

The book is about this 16 year old girl name Alice Tully who just 6 months ago started living in Croydon in Great Britain. She has a fairly normal life. She has a job at a coffee shop, a roommate and a boyfriend who is going to the university in her city. She's enjoying a normal, simple life until the past comes back to tear everything she doesn't deserve away from her.

6 years ago the media was a buzz with a story about a 10 year old girl, Jennifer Jones who brutally murdered another 10 year old and hid the body. Now she's being released from prison. The media is still buzzing with the story. Should Jennifer Jones be allowed to live her life like a normal teenager? Should this child murderer be allowed to live? Where is Jennifer Jones?

How are Alice Tully and JJ related? What does this girl have to do with a brutal child killer? To understand Jennifer Jones you have to go back to the beginning and walk with her through the neglect, abuse and betrayals that lead to her becoming the most notorious murdering in all of Great Britain.

I really liked this book. It seems I'm really good at picking books I love. Lol Any way you have to read it! I give it 9 out of 10 cupcakes! XD

p.s. this book is so popular in Great Britain that they actually made it a theatrical Production. Weird, a play about a 10 year old who murders another 10 year old. Hmmm? Lol

Deadly Little Secret

Once again I forgot to put a review up for a book i really liked. This one is called Deadly Little Secret by Laura Faria Stolarz. I couldn't put this book down. I was totally hooked. Now i read this book a while ago and i kinda forget a lot of what happens so this reviews going to be really short compared to my others. Lol

This book is about Camelia. Shes a normal junior in high school but last year at the end of her sophomore year she gets hit by a car in the school parking lot. When she opens her eyes seconds after the crash she is being held by a guy she has never met before. He puts her down on the curb and rides away on his motorcycle. That's it. She doesn't know his name and he doesn't go to her school. He's a mystery. All she can remember distantly about him besides his face is a scar on his arm.

Its a week or so into the Junior year and a new kids shows up at school. When Camelia sees him she is almost positive that this is the guy who saved her and when she asks him he says his name is Ben but denies saving her.(but he has a motorcycle too! *gasp*)

A rumor starts going around the school that the reason Ben transferred is because he was involved in the death of his ex girlfriend. They say that on a hike she "fell" off a cliff but everyone thinks Ben pushed her. No one hangs out with Ben but Camelia doesn't believe the rumors and wants to get to know him better.

But around the same time Ben starts going to her school Camelia starts getting photos of herself sent to the house. Photos of her walking into school, sitting in class, all candid. She starts to get a little freaked out and then she starts getting letters and even a message written on her mirror in her lipstick. She is being stalked but she doesn't know who would do that. She doesn't tel anyone but her best friends and they all think its Ben but DU DU DUMMMMMM is it?

I really really loved this book. I know i love almost all the books i read but this one was really good. I was scared silly through the whole thing but couldn't put it down! I am bringing the cup cake scale back for this on! It gets 9 out of 10 cupcakes! XD