All Fall Down By: Ally Carter

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The first book in the thrilling Embassy Row trilogy focuses on the return of Grace Blakely to Adria, home of Embassy Row. Grace is not crazy, despite popular opinion. Her mother was murdered, it wasn't an accident. The scarred man killed her, and now he's going to kill again. Grace pulls out all the stops to discover the Scarred Man's conniving intentions toward some important employee on Embassy Row. With the help of Noah the classic boy next door and official best friend, Megan the tech wiz, Rosie the acrobat, and Alexie her brother best friend since forever, she plans to foil the plots of the Scarred Man. But with secrets better left untold hiding in the shadows, danger lurks beyond ever cornor for our slightly insane protagonist. A past of loss, and a future not yet foreseen, what lies a head may be the downfall of Grace Blakely once and for all.

Full of colorful twist and turns All Fall Down is a classic government adventure novel. With a plot that engulfs the reader into a world full of corrupt politicians and unlikely alliances, you'll never want to put it down. Ally Carter does it again with this wonderful new edition, that is at home in any teen readers bookshelf.

The Rook

Myfanwy Thomas is part of a secret government organization called The Checquy, or at least that's what the letter says. Myfanwy actually doesn’t know who she is, only that she’s important, important enough that someone, or something, wants her dead. In a failed assassination attempt, Myfanwy loses her memory, and has to act like her “old self”, except, there’s a problem, one that involves all of Britain, and may lead her to who want’s her dead.

My thinking of this book is that it’s a great book, with having action, mystery, and betrayal all in one. The only things I found hard to read was the beginning, and I often found myself skipping the letters, as they weren’t as exciting. Other than that, I give it 4 stars.

The Dead City by James Ponti

Amazing. The word describes this book brilliantly. This wow-er of a story called the Dead City brings logic and real world places and things into the world of stories. When I read how the undead or, Zombies, acted as though they were alive, but, rotted away, day by day until they became a major threat to the living. The idea of them being powered by a strange mineral and having a secret society of people policing them from doing too much harm is pretty confusing yet scary...

A thing I liked about the book is how well designed the main character is by giving her the knowledge of fighting classes and her being pretty smart! The only drawback I can see is that she has a huge relationship with the undead by being known by the the main guy of the Zeds.

I give it a 5/5.

Review by Mason K.