Book Slam: A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty

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by Libba Bray

Fantasy

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Teaser

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Gemma Doyle isn't like other girls. Girls with impeccable manners, who speak when spoken to, who remember their station, and who will lie back and think of England when it's required of them.

No, sixteen-year-old Gemma is an island unto herself, sent to the Spence Academy in London after tragedy strikes her family in India. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma finds a chilly reception. But she's not completely alone... she's been followed by a mysterious young man, who warns her to close her mind agaisnt the visions.

For it's at Spence that Gemma's power to attract the supernatural unfolds; there she becomes entangled with the school's most powerful girls and discover's her mother's connection to a shadowy group called the Order. It's there that her destiny waits... if only she can believe in it.

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Slam

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Upon first hearing about this book I thought it sounded like a fun, interesting read. But when I actually picked it up and started reading I found myself confused right off the bat. The twisted plot line is very hard to follow and nothing in the novel is very well explained. Descriptions were very vague and many of the characters tended to blend together due to their similarity. In short, there was nothing dynamic about this book at all. It had no real basis or point and the ending was very bland also. Normally I love books set in the Victorian age, but this one just didn't live up to my expectations and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone.

Book Slam: The Green Glass Sea

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The Green Glass Sea

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By Ellen Klages

Fiction/Science Fiction

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Teaser

Suze unfolded the top of the bag. Dewey started to say something, started to shake her head no, then shrank away from the protest like a turtle pulling it's head back toward its shell. Suze reached in and picked up a book, riffling the pages with her thumb.

"The Boy Mechanic." she said, snickering. "Why do you have that?"

"They didn't make one for girls," Dewey replied.

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Slam

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Okay, I'm surprised I even bought this book. But what surprises me more is the fact that it won the Scott O'Dell Award. I myself don't find this book capable of any award. I kept trying so hard to read this book, and it was just so boring. Finally picking it up was torture. The book seemed very monotone, the characters, story, and descriptions all very generic. This author was being, well, generically creative. What I mean is that if some kid turned it in for a 9th grade English paper, everyone would be amazed. But everyone would be so much more amazed if it were actually published, for different reasons. Over all, don't waste you time or money on this book.

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Book Slam

Book Slam:

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning

By James Patterson
Science Fiction
272 pages
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Teaser

First she was watched.

In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it.

Then she was threatened.

Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the the flock-five kids who share her remarkable ability-have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism-and escape from the government forces that are watching the flock all the time...

This is her final warning.

But even in Antarctica, enduring the harshest weather on the planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. Whoever controls her powers could also control the world...

Slam

I absolutely loved that first three Maximum Ride books. However, I was disappointed in the fourth one. It lacked what made the first three books so good. They were all action packed, full or sarcasm and witty "Max moments", and it seemed to be one of the few series in which the author really knew what they were doing. The Final Warning was very different from that. There wasn't as much action, Max lost some of her character, and it really seemed like James Patterson wasn't sure where he was going with the plot. Overall, I was extremely dissapointed, and I hope he has enough sense to make the possible fifth book better.