Hunger Games Catching Fire

The Hunger Games Catching Fire starts out in district twelve where Katniss Everdeen (the winner of the seventy fourth hunger games) is enjoying her new life of  luxury, when Katniss won the Hunger Games with Peeta both of the victors became very rich. After one year, The Second Quarter Quell is read to the country of Panem and the Quell is that The existing pool of victors are re entered into the Reaping and forced to go back into the arena and fight for their lives.

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The tributes for district twelve are Peeta and Katniss and then they were quickly transported back to the capital after President Snow visited Katniss at her home. After the president leaves his threat of executing Gale hanging in the air. She marries Peeta to satisfy President Snow’s wishes.

Once the tributes take their positions inside the metal cylinders Katniss sees something really terrible… But then the platform begins to rise up and into the arena and she overcomes her grief and runs straight at the cornucopia.Then she meets up with allies she didn't know she had and together they run into the forest. With Finnick and Mags at their side Katniss had a good chance of surviving the games.

Later thick toxic fogs surrounds the team killing one of their members. Once again getting over the loss Katniss and her remaining teammates run through the forest to the cornucopia and pick over the  weapons.

Then Katniss and her team find Johanna Mason, Wiress and Beetee which quickly team up with them and very quickly after Enobria and Brutus show up at the cornucopia and the pairs fight but then Enobria and Brutus retreat back into the woods. Later Beetee hatches a plan to kill Enobria and Brutus, and Finnick and Katniss proceed into the woods to set their trap.

But then jabberjays come and mimic Prim and a girl named Annie, nearly driving Katniss into sanity then luckily the birds die out and Katniss and Finnick take a moment to recover then go back and begin Beetee’s plan. Johanna and Katniss start by rolling out wire from a tree that is often struck by lightning. But then Johanna bashes Katniss’ head in and slices her arm in which Katniss believes is an attempt to kill her. 
Katniss survives the assault and goes to find Peeta but instead finds Beetee tied to a tree with a knife. Katniss finds out how the plan was supposed to go and finishes the job.
Katniss meets up with Gale but tragedy has struck district 12 and the capital's wrath is burning brighter than ever in her home district.
I really hated the ending of catching fire because Katniss’ life was bad enough before the hunger games and then this! It would have been so much easier to just murder Katniss in the beginning. However I really like how the arena was set up it was a lot more interesting having them know vaguely what was going to happen

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars because of the incidents in 12

Adventures In Funeral Crashing By: Milda Harris

This book is called Adventures in Funeral Crashing: Funeral Crashing Mysteries #1 by: Milda Harris. Obviously it’s a mystery but it does have some romance in it.

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Kait Lenox is known as the weird girl in the school. Her ex-best friend turned into a mean popular girl and basically told people that she likes to go funeral crashing. What makes it worse is that it’s true. At one of her funeral crashes, she happens to go to the one that Ethan Ripley is attending. He is the most popular guy in school, but instead of embarrassing Kait in front of everyone, he asks for her help. Kait is now caught up in a murder mystery, but the most important thing running through her head is that Ethan actually knows her name! Will they find out who the murderer is? How will Ethan and Kait turn out? Will Kait’s sort-of-stalkerish fantasies about Ethan finally come true?

This is a series of two other books.

What I liked about this book is that the author detailed her emotions really well, it helped you connect to how you would usually feel in those situations.

There is not much that I don’t like about this book.

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Linh Cinder is your everyday, second-class citizen--living in New Beijing. That is of-course including the fact that she is part-cyborg and has the uncanny ability to fix objects. But on her 16th birthday she get’s signed up for Letumosis research, after her mother accuses her of giving her sister, this deathly plague. (But if its deadly then why isn’t she dead too?)

The problem occurs when the prince’s dad dies, making him the new emperor, then he receives word that the (Evil) Lunar queen Levana is coming to Earth to attend the Emperor's funeral. After this, Cinder and Emperor Kai go to the Royal Ball together. But Levana notices something strange about Cinder, She is Lunar! New Beijing is harboring a criminal! After she sees this the world plummets into chaos, witch all started with Cinder being a Lunar! (which are suppose to be on Luna, or the moon rather.)

My favorite thing about the book is how it is based off of a Fairy-tale, In this case, it is cinderella. It is like a advanced, set in the future version of the original. they just rename the characters, and the plot just a tad, but never-the-less it’s still a really good book!

I think the one thing that I didn’t like about this book was they didn’t didn’t go into detail about the characters and their background, if they did, a 5 of 5.

Overall I give this book a 4 out of 5 stars

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Divergent By: Veronica Roth

The book I will be reviewing is Divergent By: Veronica Roth. This book has romance and action throughout the book.

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In this dystopian society, everyone is divided into factions. Tris Prior has decided to go to Dauntless, and there she meets Four. The handsome and mysterious guy who seems to hate her for some unknown reason. While in this faction, Tris learns certain things about herself that could be very deadly for her if anyone found out. Right now, Four is the one who can and will actually help. Without any other choices Tris must trust Four.

This is a series of three books. The next book is Insurgent and then Allegiant.

Something that I liked about this book is that it gave a lot of description about the setting, so that it’s easier to picture what the author is trying to describe.

Something I didn’t like about this book was that it was a little boring. In the beginning and the end it was okay, but in the middle there was not a lot going on and that just made it seem a little boring to me.

I give this 3 out of 5 stars

Ready Player One By: Ernest Cline

In the year 2044, The world is broken, and the only place that anyone feels safe in a virtual world, known as the OASIS. Wade Watts was born into poverty on Aug 12, 2027 with both of his parents teenagers. they had no idea how to raise a child, but at a young age his dad died from a shooting a a general store, and his mother died when he was 11 from “a bad batch of something in her arm.”Therefore Wade has to live with what I like to call “ A worse version of the Dursleys.” Not only are they mean, they are EXTREMELY abusive. And they only took him in for the extra food stamps every month.

Wade rarely stays there, because he is normally in his secret hideout, where his school issued OASIS console is. (He couldn't keep it in his aunt's trailer, because she would pawn it off) When he enters the OASIS he receives a email. The Creator of the OASIS has died, and he has left a easter-egg hunt inside of this never ending world; The winner?, 240 Billion dollars, and the ownership to the OASIS!

Everything starts going haywire when, Parzival (Wade’s in-game name) finds the first Key, and he’s the first person, of the billions of gunters (people who have devoted their lives to winning the hunt) who have spent 5 years straight trying to find the key to the first gate. After he clears it, the IOI or Innovative Online Industries, (World’s most evil company/largest ISP) wants him to tell them how he did it, and where it was hidden.

My favorite thing/things about the book are all of the pop-culture references, it really is touching to see how many things can be put together to make a awesome book.

This Book is very suggestive, and graphic. *Mature Readers only* Read at your own discretion.

Overall I give this book 5/5, or better yet 6/5. Because this is my new favorite book, and best book of all time!

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones By: Cassandra Clare

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The first book I am going to recommend is The Mortal Instruments.  The genre is adventure, fantasy, combined with romance.

It's about a girl, Clary Fray, who learns that she is a Shadowhunter. Angel and human blood runs through her veins. Shadowhunters are people who fight She meets some other Shadowhunters, but before she can actually understand what a Shadowhunter is her mother is kidnapped. Clary goes to the Shadowhunters for help. While training, she gets a little crush on the infuriating Jace Lightwood. He has the looks of an angel but once he opens his mouth, he is a complete jerk. Will Clary save her mom? How will Clary and Jace turn out?

This is a series of six books and it does have a prequel. The prequel is called The Infernal Devices, although you don't have to read them to read this series.

* I recommend this series to a mature audience since it gets more graphic as the series goes on. *

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I give this book a 5 out of 5 stars.

Review by Shyla C.

The Lightning Thief

Do you love a little Action, Adventure, and fantasy? If you do than you definitely need to read this book!

Twelve year-old Percy Jackson lives in the city of Manhattan in a dirty little apartment. His father “left” him and his mother when he was just a baby, so, Percy stays with his hard working mother and lazy stepfather. Percy was always switching schools because he was always getting expelled for reasons he didn’t understand. Young, naive Percy thought that Greek mythology were just stupid little legends……..but he was wrong. 

I absolutely LOVE this book. There is nothing about this book that I don’t like. It is just simply amazing. I give this book 5 stars!

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