Audrey, Wait!

Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway is one of my favorite books. I usually don't read books like this. It has a lot of drama but is hilarious. Robin Benway, the author, did a fantastic job of describing what Audrey was going through. Audrey was dating someone who she broke up with and he wrote a song about her. The song was called, Audrey, Wait!. The song is called that because as Audrey was leaving his house after she broke up with him he called, "Audrey, wait!" and she pretended not to hear him. The book is about Audrey's struggle to stay a normal teenager and lead an average life. As the paparazzi storms her and writers for various magazines try to interview her, she struggles to still have privacy and still have fun.

Her friend, Victoria, loves the attention, though. Audrey keeps getting sent free stuff and Victoria enjoys them while Audrey dislikes them. Audrey and Victoria's friendship is stretched and tested as they go on this journey. The end of this book was shocking but very well done. I loved this book and the characters in it. I felt connected to them even though I haven't been put through situations like this. I loved this book and recommend this to anyone and everyone who likes drama and hilarious dialogue and plot twists.

Bone by Jeff Smith

Bone by Jeff Smith is a graphic novel about, what you would guess, a bone. Fone Bone is the main character of the book and is witty and funny. The plot of the book is quite gripping and Fone Bone makes everything interesting. The general plot in the first book is that Fone Bone is looking for his cousins. One of which was chased out of Boneville. Boneville is the town for all the bones. Though it is a graphic novel I feel as though it has more than enough words to explain the story and the pictures of course are always a big part of graphic novels. A lot of graphic novels aren't considered books because there are so many pictures and not just words. I think just because a book has pictures doesn't mean its not a novel. I believe graphic novels are just as good as books and novels. They explain stories just as much as books and their characters are almost even more clear. The only bad thing I can say is that it takes only a little imagination to visualize the characters since it is done for you. I love making a movie in my mind with books, it is one of my favorite parts of reading, and when I can't it is a little bit of a let down.
I recommend Bone to everyone. It is fun, smart and funny with a great plot. Jeff Smith did a fabulous job describing Fone Bone and his cousins.

Dive by Gordon Korman

Dive by Gordon Korman is one of my favorite series ever. It is a trilogy full of drama, suspense and action. It is about teenagers who go on a diving program in the summer. They each have their own specific reasons to be there. One is a hockey player who hurt someone with a legal check and won't play again. One girl has a walking disability and dives because it makes her look and feel like someone without a disability.
This is one of my favorite series because of all the suspense and action. In each book there is an explosion of tense action. In one book a large shark circles the hockey playing boy. In another some of them get the bends. For some reason I have always been attracted to things about underwater adventures. Something about the unknown and dangers of not being able to breathe without the right equipment always keeps me hooked. Sharks, treasures and plane crashes buried under waves and bubbles hold secrets that sometimes take years to find keep me reading cover to cover. All the characters in this series are some of the most interesting characters in any series I have read.
This book is meant for those who love suspense and constant action sneaking around every corner. I loved this series and recommend it to whoever out there loves deep sea adventure.

Book Review

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is one of my favorite books ever. Whenever I read it I can't put it down. I have read it before, as I have the whole series, but every time I read it I pick up something new and I always enjoy it more. Rick Riordan is one of my favorite authors because he is so creative and always grasps the reader from the beginning. For example on page 1 the narrator Percy Jackson says, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood." The first time I read the series I was mystified and curious at the same time. What's a half-blood? Why didn't this person want to be one? Who is this person? and many more questions were spinning and running around in my head. I was intrigued by the very first sentence and can never put the book down from the very first page.
Percy Jackson is a half-blood. A half-blood is a mix between a God and a human. Any one of the many greek Gods that live in twenty-first century America. This isn't your normal action thriller book. You might be imagining that it's just another boring fantasy where around every corner there is another shock and change in the plot. Well it isn't. Though there are shocks throughout the book they are spaced perfectly together and are never too close or too far apart. I have never gotten bored of this book or the series. Each paragraph holds important details to the story. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who enjoys action, suspense and a perfect amount of fantasy, that happens to relate to the greek gods.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I have recently started a new book called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This is the first in a trilogy and I must say I'm quite impressed. I thought this was going to be one of those books that follows the common pattern and is really predictable. My first three guesses about what would happen were wrong and I haven't made any up since then. I love the spontaneousness that Suzanne Collins writes with. I love the suspense and the plot. I think the characters are well thought out but a little emotionless and whiney. I still love the book so far though. It really makes you feel how it must have felt to be starving and be in despair. My favorite character is Peeve. He seems like a generous boy who really has a big heart and I'm interested to know if he dies in The Hunger Games or not.
I'm not sure how the sequels will do because I feel like even now that a chain off would be boring or repetitive. Most people have told me that the second and third are worse than the first, and Katniss turns into a very whiney person. Most books have at least one character you really don't like. Harry Potter has Draco Malfoy, Percy Jackson has Clarissa, even Moby Dick has Moby Dick. Very rarely is the annoying or mean person the main character, only in The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid have I seen something like this before. I'm sure it happens but rarely. I really recommend this to anyone who is looking for a fantasy/action/suspense book.

Word of the Day

ubiquitous
to exist everywhere all the time

Example Sentence
"Wow, Bob, I've been seeing you everywhere. It's like you are ubiquitous!"

Book Review

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
One of the many things I've always admired about J.K. Rowling's writing is her ability to pull the reader into the book, so much so that it's hard to find a good "stopping point". I feel as though I can really connect with the characters. I feel as though I have been in their position, even though I haven't. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is one of those books that people really wish were true; the whole series makes this same craving. The characters are fantastic. I love them and I know all their attitudes to events and I can predict the things they say. The reason I love to read is the fact that very descriptive books like this one can make a movie in your mind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is so descriptive that sometimes I look at something and think, Wow! That looks just like the toy described in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
My favorite type of books is the one with action, humor and fantasy. When I say fantasy, I don't mean flying ponies and fairies, though this book has things like that; I mean Quidditch and Hagrid, the half-giant, not just spells but curses and hexes. In this particular book action doesn't have guns, with the exception of the odd reference, but wand battles and death eaters, not to mention He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. It's an exceptional book and I recommend it to everyone and anyone who loves laughing, crying and smiling.

Word of the Day

-Raad
Siluriformes in the family of Malapteruridae.
In other words, electric catfish.