I Am Number Four

Like all my other books, I found this book at the book fair when I was in middle school. I was always at every single book fair. My love for books started when I first learned how to read and it is still going on strong. I read book after book. My husband doesn't like to read and always asks me why I love to read so much. I don't really know the answer to that question. I tell him I just love to read and I don't know why. Maybe it is because a book pulls you into a different world and it feels like you get to escape your own world.

Now that I told you about where I found this book and went on about why I love to read, let's get onto the book review. Number four he is a Garde from the planet Lorien. Lorien was destroyed by the Mogdorians, who destroyed their own planet through their lack of care for their planet. Nine children and nine guardians were able to escape Lorien before it was destroyed. Number four was one of those nine that was able to escape Lorien before it was destroyed.

The nine Garde's that escaped Lorien before it was destroyed flew to Earth. Earth was supposed to be their safe haven. They were here on Earth to train so they were able to fight. However, the Mogdorians managed to escape with them when they flew off Lorien and now they are killing the Garde's one by one. Will four be able to survive the attack of the Mogdorians? Read this book to find out!

I must be honest with you, in middle school, Alien books were really not my type of books. However, this book had me hooked from the very beginning. I remember reading this book past the time my mom would tell me lights out. I would sit on my bed with my reading light hooked to this book and I would read until I fell asleep. This book keeps you interested and keeps you guessing until the very end. It is defiantly worth the read and you will love it!

Radiance

Many of you have probably heard of the Immortal series by Alyson Noel. This book, Radiance, is a sequel to that series. I have read the entire Immortals series by Alyson Noel, and was ecstatic when I found out that there was a sequel to those books. 
 I was at a book fair with my little sister and parents, when
I saw Radiance by Alyson Noel. I knew that Noel's immortal series was amazing, so I figured that this book would be amazing as well. I was right. This book, just like the immortal series, hooks you from the very beginning.

Ever is the main character from the immortal series. Radiance is about Ever's little sister, Riley, crossing the bridge to the afterlife and is trying to get used to her life after death. This is very difficult for Riley, because she misses her life and sister, Ever, very much. Riley puts on a brave face, even though she is looking for a chance to escape this after life. Riley's plan of escaping is put to a stop, as she is assigned to a new job, as a Soul Catcher. A Soul Catcher's job is to convince any souls that are lingering at a certain place, to cross over the bridge to the afterlife. I am going to stop there, because I don't want to give the entire book away!

Reading this again now that I am older, helped me see things a lot differently. I didn't realize that Riley's job as a Soul Catcher was actually really fitting for her. In the Immortal series, Riley is good at figuring people out. This job is perfect for her, because she needs to find out what is making the souls linger in a certain place.

After reading Radiance again, I am going to read the entire Immortals series again!

Long Way Down

This is the book my book group got for Grubb's class. When I first looked at the cover of this book I was thinking, why are there elevator buttons with a face being reflected. The cover really got me intrigued in the book before I even opened to the first page. I also noticed all the awards on the cover, so I knew it was probably going to be a good book.

I read this book in a day. I began reading it Tuesday night and I finished it Wednesday after my field placement. I could not stop reading this book. It hooked me in from the very beginning and I just couldn't stop reading it. I had to force myself to put it down so I could be well rested for my field placement the next day.

I will tell you, the grammar in this book is a little rough to read at first. The work "ain't" is used a lot throughout this book, and the way the narrator is talking is a little rough to read. I found myself correcting the grammatical errors a lot throughout this book. But after awhile I got used to the grammar and the way the narrator is speaking.

Now let's get to the summary of this book. Will, who is a young black male, just witnessed his brother, Shawn, being shot. The bullets came from everywhere, and he wasn't sure who the shooter was. However, Will gets an idea of who the shooter is and wants revenge. In the society Will lives in there are three rules to follow. Rule  #1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. Rule #2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. And rule #3: Revenge. Do. No matter what. Will has an idea of who shot his brother, and wants revenge. He gets his brothers gun and heads out on a mission to shoot who killed his brother. However, while on the elevator, he gets visited by six different people from his past, who have all passed on. Will William follow through with getting revenge on the person who shot his brother? Well you just have to read this book to find out.

After reading this book, I will for sure be reading some more of Jason Reynolds books. I highly recommend this book for older teens, to young adults. It is defiantly a very fast read, and it will hook you in from the very beginning. I hope you enjoy it!

Matched

The Matched series has been my favorite book series since seventh grade. I own the entire series, and this is probably my fourth or fifth time reading this series. This book just pulls you in and all you want to do is read the next one. However, when I first read Matched in 2010, I had to wait until November 2011 to read the second one. So lucky for you guys, if you want to read the series you wont have to wait an entire year to read the next one.

Cassia Reyes is the main character in the book Matched. She is a seventeen year old girl that is living in a future society. In this future society, the culture has been completely uncluttered. There are only 100 songs, 100 books, and 100 poems available to the population of this future society. The officials controls everyone's lives. They decide what they wear, who they fall in love with, where they word, and they even decide when you die! In this book Cassia is about to be matched. She is about to undergo a ceremony where seventeen year old girls meet the one they are going to marry. At first Cassia is matched with her best friend Xander Carrow. However, her microcard glitches, and her match is changed to someone she has never seen before, Ky Markham. It says that he isn't eligible to be matched and that makes Cassia curious. She begins to fall in love with him, ad her who world begins to get flipped upside down!

I absolutely love this book and I highly recommend it. It will really pull you in because it keeps you guessing the entire time. Ally Condie did an amazing job on this series. I am glad that I was able to share this book with you guys!