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

The Compound

OK so I must be a genius! I am here to present you with another book! Yes! That's right! And this one only took me a day to read but it was really good. Its called The Compound by S.A. Boden. Its about this boy Eli who's family is living in a bunker. The bunker is called The Compound and it was built by Eli's billionaire father to escape nuclear attacks. It has every luxury possible and its stocked to last them for a long time. When Eli was 9 there was an attack and his whole family made it in except the most important people in his life, his twin brother Eddie and his grandmother. Its been 6 years and Eli's family thinks everyone on the outside is dead. There is a time lock on the compound set to open 15 years from now when its safe to return to the surface but when supplies start running low they realize maybe this wasn't as well planned out as they were told it was.

Soon Eli's father starts doing really strange things like trying to clone humans for food( i assumed that's what they wanted them for) and lieing about things. Like Eli just for the heck of it tries to log onto Internet and gets connected right outside his father office. His father said that there was no Internet, no contact, nothing. When Elis father starts asking them to participate in crazy experiments Eli knows they have to get out. Problem is, their father wont let them.

I really liked this book. It was really short and I wish it had been longer but it was still really good. The characters were really good and i loved his little sister Teresa. She was only 6 when they went in the compound and every day since she has watched Mary Poppins and has picked up an English accent. Any who I liked this one and i hope you do to and its not girly at all so yay! I picked a not romantic, not girly, not butterfly's and lollipops kind of book!

Frozen Fire!

I finished another book! Don't i seem so smart? 3 books in 1 week. Any who this book is called Frozen Fire by Tim Bowler and this was a really good book. Its a Physiological Thriller and that's why it took me so long to read. I couldn't read it at night. It wasn't scary really it was just so thrilling it kept me awake and i tossed and turned thinking about the strange boy.

The book is about this girl Dusty who is home alone on New Years Eve when she gets this disturbing phone call. Its a boy and he says he is dieing. When she asks him if he wants her to get help he says no and that he wants to die. She asks why he called her and he says he wanted to talk to someone as he died. He had taken an over dose of pills and as he talked to her he took more. She asked him how he got her number and he didn't know and when she asks where he is he won't say. So there is a strange boy on the other line, he is dieing, wont tell her where he is or what his name is and to make thing even weirder he mentions her brother, Josh.
Dusty's brother ran away 3 years ago and no one has seen him since. They don't know where he is or anything. He just left. Dusty's life has been a mess since he left. Her mother went crazy and left her and her father. Dusty gets into fights at school with random people without good reason. Her life's hasn't been the same so when the boy mentions Josh she know he must know something so she commits to finding this boy before he dies.

I wont tell you what happens after that cause it gets really interesting. The author is a genius. I was so into this book but it was slightly confusing for me but i won't tell you why. Lets just say someone isn't what they are suspected of being and no one can figure out what that someone or something is and whether that something is an important something or someone.

OK i think that was the most confusing reviews i have ever given but it was a confusing book. It took me a while to realize this book was written by an Englishmen and that it took place in England. Some of their words were confusing for me and when i got it i felt completely foolish for not getting it sooner. :)

Need

I completely forgot I read this book. Its Need by Carrie Jones. I laughed really hard while reading this and you may find that strange if you read the first few chapters. They are tense and spooky but once you get into the story you will realize like I did that the book is almost exactly like Twilight!

The story is about Zara who has just moved from her home in Georgia (warm and sunny) to a little town in Maine (small, remote and cloudy) after her father dies. According to her mother she has been a shell and she is scared that Zara might be depressed so she sends her to live with her grandmother. When she gets off the plane she sees this strange man and then she sees him again on the drive home, and again, and a again. Just watching her. She is extremely freaked out. (sounds like someones got an Edward stalker right?)

The guy turns out to be a Pixie and he keeps calling for her. (Not on the phone.) He calls to her in this tempting luring voice but she somehow is able to resist the pull of his magic. Soon it becomes clear that not everyone in this town is entirely human. Including her. (bum bum BUM!)

Now that's all I can really tell you without spoiling the entire thing for you. I thought it was really good and despite the fact its allot like Twilight I thought it was actually better. Now this is standing on the fact that I really did like Twilight (stop hissing at me!) so the fact that I liked it a little bit more means it was really good. But yeah if you have read Twilight your gonna laugh when you read things that are similar.

p.s. Zara knows the name of almost every fear and each chapter is the name and definition of a different fear. I thought it was interesting. :)

Oopsie!

Oopsie! So its been at least a week since I have been home and I haven't talked at all about any of the books I read on vacation. Well guess what! I didnt get a chance to read much! I know! I'm a fraud as a lover of books! You should all just behead me! Hahaha But if you spare me I can tell you all about the one book I was able to read on vacation. Its called Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith.

Eternal is very interesting because its about a girl and her guardian angel. Now I don't really believe in guardian angels and I don't think that allot of the stuff in the book is biblicaly correct but remember its just fiction. Anyway the girls name in Miranda and Zachery is her Guardian angel. Miranda is just a normal girl trying to have a normal life but that's hard for her when her parents are divorced and she is too scared to even talk when she auditions for her school play. She thinks no one sees her and the one person who does can't be seen by her. Zachery fell in love with Miranda and knows her better then anyone else ( i thought that was kinda stalkerish) but he can never tell Miranda this because the rules of guardian angels is that only in an emergency can you show yourself but only to help. Also the rules say that if the person your guarding has reached the point when they must die you can not intervene.

Unfortunately when Miranda's card is up in a grave yard filled with blood thirsty vampires (a strange twist in the plot I thought but it actually fits) Zachery does the unthinkable, he gets in the way of death. His punishment it pretty harsh. Zachery has "fallen from grace" (seriously, that's what it said) and has been demoted to being almost human. He feels everything we do except he can't die. For a year he walks the earth and falls victim to the world. He fills his new human emptiness with alcohol and eventually he is given a chance to redeem himself. He has to save Miranda.

Now Miranda isn't home all warm in her bed. Miranda is now miles away living in Chicago and is now the Dracula's adopted daughter (Not the actual Count Dracula, the name is like a title) . The Dracula is the king of vampires and is in charge of them. Miranda is now a Vampire Princess, one of the undead and Zachery's task is to save her. Now here is an interesting twist, how can you save a minion of the Devil? Hmmmmmm?

I actually really liked this book and if the author had this could have been a really good story to promote the gospel. Alas it didn't but it does have the moral that no one is too far gone to be saved. Hope that this review made sense because believe me it was really hard to explain it. The way the book was written was confusing for me because the chapters filliped back and forth from Miranda to Zachery so even though the chapter is clearly labeled as either Zachery or Miranda you can sometimes become confused. But I think this book was really good. I'm not sure if there is going to be a sequel or not. Ever read a book where you wish there was a sequel but you know it would just ruin the series if it continued? Well thats how I felt at the end. But you may not feel that way so read it!