It’s about this place which is like a bad place where only black people live. It’s back when there was a lot of racism, poverty and slavery. There’s this fifteen year old kid who is in a gang. He’s in hospital. He has a bullet in his arm, because he’s a gangster. He’s in his hospital room when an earthquake hits the town. All of the furniture and walls collapse around him and he gets trapped in his bed. He’s going crazy because he’s having dreams about a guy called Toussaint who he imagines himself as. He has a friend called Biggie who told him about Toussaint, how he freed black people. His dreams are incredibly descriptive, like he sees jade and emerald in the clockwork, and knows what it is, but has never heard about it before in his real life. Toussaint is also having dreams about the kid. Toussaint takes part in a ritual and all the guys around him think that he is possesed. But the kid sees it as him going flying into his mouth. Tasson sees a witch doctor, who says that Toussaint only has one soul. But Toussaint was a twin and his twin had died, leaving him with only half a soul until now…
Rated: 3/5 reallys - "Really exciting!"
Cry blue murder opens with the poster of a missing girl... Other girls have been going missing too. Alice King is getting worried, she knows one of the missing girls. She meets another girl, Celia online who is her age and is also feeling concerned. The rest of the book is a series of emails and other bits and pieces like police reports shared between Celia and Alice. One of the victims is found dead, encased in their own woven hair. The unknown killer is called The Cocoon Killer from then on. More girls go missing and Alice is not sure that all is as it seems….
Recommended for 12+
Rated: 4.9/5 reallys - "I read it twice... thrilling!"
A lot of people say the Divergent series is like The Hunger Games but it isn’t really. In Divergent there are five factions that are all known for having particular traits, such as selflessness for Abstinence and bravery for Dauntless. Beatrice was born into Abnegation but it is coming time for her to choose her own faction as an adult. First she goes through a brain simulation which is supposed to help show which faction she should be in. But Beatrice gets an “inconclusive” result because she masters three of the five factions – Abstinence, Dauntless and Erudite. Choosing your faction isn’t simple. You can’t just pick to be with your family because if you aren’t suited and don’t pass the initiation test you will be cast out. Beatrice chooses Dauntless and changes her name to Tris. The initiation for Dauntless is full on because it’s like a bravery test. Tris is really slight but ends up being top ranked. Others don’t cope so well. This is also where she meets man-boy Four, who takes her on a journey through his fear landscape. Tris is special because she can manipulate brain simulations, but this also makes her a threat to the factions…
Rated: 4/5 reallys - "I got a bit annoyed with the touchy feely elements, they got in the way of a good story!"
My favourite character is Harry Potter. My least favourite characters are Draco and Lucius Malfoy. If I was at Hogwarts I would choose to be in Gryffindor. My favourite spell is cruxio. Nothing scary happens in book two.
Rated: 4.999/5 reallys
Jo, Bessie and Fanny move from town to country. On the first day they have to work but on the second day they get to explore. There is a long ditch in front of their house that separates them from a woods. In order to explore the woods they have to jump over the ditch. So they jump the ditch and take a picnic into the woods. They think it’s just a normal woods and so they set off with their picnic and choose some cushions of moss to sit on. As soon as they sit down elves begin to appear. The elves don’t notice the children. They also don’t notice a burglar creeping up to steal from them, until Jo yells out “Hey You!” The elves chase the burglar up a giant tree in the middle of the forest. They thank the children and tell them a bit about the magical faraway tree with different worlds at the top. The children climb the tree, meeting the Angry Pixie, Dame Washalot and Mr Whatisname along the way. They also meet Silky, who has the silkiest hair. They find out that Silky’s friend Moonface is stuck in the world at the top of the tree. He is in The Land of the Saucepan Man and might not be able to make it back in time before the world swings away from the tree. It’s very exciting, there are lots of adventures and red goblins.
Rated: 5/5 reallys
Skulduggery is a skeleton sorcerer, a detective and a protector of mortals –oh and he can fly! In this world Magicians choose a name to be called, because their true names - which they only find out about when they come of age and get their magic - are powerful, and make it possible for others to control you. There are different sorts of magic that you can receive - element magic, necromancy black magic and adept gravity manipulation magic. There’s also a magic you can be born with called being a sensitive, these are magicians who can look into the minds of others and see visions. Valkyrie is a young magician who has just got her power. For a long time the sensitives have had visions of someone called Darkness destroying the world. When Valkyrie receives her magic, she also finds out that Darkness is her true name…can she fight the prophecy? Skulduggery and Valkyrie must work together to save Valkyrie and the world from destruction.
Rated: 4/5 reallys - "It's very complicated."
It’s about this girl called Gulnessa and her family. She lives with her mum and dad, siblings and grandparents in Afghanistan. But then her dad gets abducted by the Taliban. Her friend’s dad gets abducted too. So her family get an agent to help them flee the country to Australia. Gulnessa, her family, and her friend, a neighbourhood boy live in a refugee camp together for two years. Finally Gulnessa and her family get their visas. But her friend doesn’t and has to go home.
Rated: 3/5 reallys
It’s about a girl called Hayley and her dad. Her dad is always drinking and losing jobs, so they have to keep moving towns. This means Hayley is constantly moving schools. One day a teacher at Hayley’s new school talks to her dad about attending the veteran’s assembly. But he still has dreams about his friends dying and won’t come. Then Trish comes back. She’s her dad’s ex-wife and Hayley doesn’t like her because she left them. Then one of her dad’s old friends visits and for a while he seems better. But then Trish is leaving again for Texas and her dad has disappeared, leaving only a letter behind. Can Hayley find him in time?
Rated: 5/5 reallys
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