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Braydon:

 By Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary [|(Goodreads)] Life As We Knew It is a book about Miranda Evans, by Susan Beth Pfeffer. She is a teenager growing up normal in Pennsylvania when the moon gets hit by a meteor which causes tons of natural disasters. If focuses on her trying to retain a normal life in a ruined world. Her friends die and leave. Her boyfriend dumps her. Her family gets sick and she has to nurture them back to health. Miranda has to discover if her mother is conspiring against her. She needs to find out what it takes to have loyalty and love. Above all, she has to find out what it takes to have faith and most importantly she must find hope.
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Commentary ﻿Things I enjoyed about this novel: It was perfectly paced and exciting. I could relate to all of the characters and I enjoyed the style the author wrote. I loved the setting and the situations Miranda was set in and I loved the way she conquered (or didn't) them. I loved how the characters were human and not impervious to emotion. I really just enjoyed how it made me feel in real life. I felt like the world was coming to and end. I am very excited to read the sequel.

Things I disliked about this novel: I did not like how long it took to get into the plot line. I also strongly disliked the journal setting. It gave away the ending. You already knew she would survive and I hated that. I wanted suspense but I only felt like that when she said it. I also didn't like the love story. I mean a little bit is ok but when she kept going on and on her and Dan got very annoying. I also didn't like how Jonny grew up and you didn't even know him!

Rating I would give this a 4 out of a possible 5 stars. Susan kind of ruined it for me with the journal setting and the love story. Although I would recommend this book to EVERYONE. It kind of scared me but that is what books are supposed to make you do: feel emotion.

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Taten:

= ﻿//Maze Runner// = == ﻿By James Dashner

[|Summary by goodreads]: Imagine waking up one day in total darkness, unsure of where you are and unable to remember anything about yourself except your first name. You're in a bizarre place devoid of adults called the Glade. The Glade is an enclosed structure with a jail, a graveyard, a slaughterhouse, living quarters, and gardens. And no way out. Outside the Glade is the Maze, and every day some of the kids -- the Runners -- venture into the labyrinth, trying to map the ever-changing pattern of walls in an attempt to find an exit from this hellish place. So far, no one has figured it out. And not all of the Runners return from their daily exertions, victims of the maniacal Grievers, part animal, part mechanical killing machines.

Thomas is the newest arrival to the Glade in this //Truman//-meets-//Lord of the Flies// tale. A motley crew of half a dozen kids is all he has to guide him in this strange world. As soon as he arrives, unusual things begin to happen, and the others grow suspicious of him. Though the Maze seems somehow familiar to Thomas, he's unable to make sense of the place, despite his extraordinary abilities as a Runner. What is this place, and does Thomas hold the key to finding a way out?

Commentary:

Things I liked: I really liked the characters, they all started out as characters that kind of bug you and are annoying then turn into characters that you really care about. I also really liked how detailed the book was. It was not overly detailed to the extent that it made it boring, but it added just enough detail to help you picture it better. I really liked how he described the Grievers, I could hear them better than i could picture them which to me made it even scarier than a mental image would have.

Things I didn't like: The first of the book moves SO SO slow! To slow for my tastes. I had a very hard time reading this book at the start because of how slow it is. That is not the worst thing to complain about a book. I don't really have much else to put in this category because i really enjoyed it.

Overall thoughts:

I would give //Maze Runner// a 4 out of 5 stars, because it was really good, but i have read better. The beginning of the book was to slow and there was a very abrupt end. Those two things do not detract from the enjoy of the book much (especially how the second one has come out) so it still stands at a 4/5.

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// [|Sumary from good reads] //

Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love

// Comentary // I thought that it was an incredible book. It was intense and exciting. The story line was well-thought out. It took me a while to get into, because the begging was kind of depressing and pretty boring. It’s not until they finally start the hunger games that it acutely gets exciting. During the hunger games, it was very thrilling and intense. One thing I didn’t like throughout out the book was hearing through Katniss’s point of view. I thought she was a little too pessimistic and she never really had a positive outlook on anything.

// Over all thoughts //

I would give this book a four out of five stars. I really enjoyed it but it wasn’t my favorite book that I’ve ever read.

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