Showing posts with label suspense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suspense. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Eclipse

Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Reviewer: Claire
Summary: This is the third book in an intriguing series! Bella has an unknown visitor in her room. It has come to find her. Her boyfriend who is a vampire is very protective and will not let Bella out of his sight. She has a best friend who is a werewolf. She is much protected with 7 vampires and 10 werewolves all fighting for her. There is group of new vampires trying to kill Bella! So everyone is pitching in. You have to read it to find out the rest.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Golden Hour


Title- The Golden Hour
Author- Maiya Williams
Reviewer- Chase
Nina and Rowan Popplewell just lost their mother in a car crash. Their father sends them to stay with their two aunts in Owatannauk, Maine. There, they meet Xanthe and Xavier. Nina is so depressed about her mother, she decides to go back in time at the old, abondoned, Owatannauk Hotel, which their aunts warned them not to go in. Rowan doesn't know where Nina is so he goes with Xanthe and Xavier back in time to the French Revoulition. Thinking that's where Nina went because she is a huge fan of Motzart. They can only time travel during the Golden Hour (sunset) and only have one week to find her and get back home or they will be stuck in that time period forever. In France, they meet many famous people like Motzart, King Louis, and Queen Marie Antoinette.Rowan becomes a friend of the Queen and hears her side of the story and later watches her exucution. While there, Rowan has made enemies, goes to prison and is about to be executed along with Xanthe and Xavier. Just before they are going to be killed, they escape,go back to the future, just in time, and Rowan finally figures out where Nina went. He goes back to 1990, Brooklyn, NY, where their mother met their father. He finds Nina, convinces her to go back and they end up with everything working out.
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Ranger's Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan


Title: Ranger's Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan
Author: John Flanagan
Reviewer: Jack M

Summary: Will is a fifteen year old boy who has big dreams to become a knight but when the choosing ceremony comes he is rejected by all the craft masters except for one, the mysterious ranger Halt. Will trains as Halt's apprentice and they journey to the ranger gathering. When they get there though they find everyone is leaving. They learn a shocking truth Morgarath is rising.
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Skeleton Key

Title: Skeleton Key
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Reviewer: Michael J.

Skeleton Key is about Alex Rider, a 14 year-old British spy, who is sent to Cuba on an island to team up with CIA agents Glen Carver and Belinda Troy to stop a former general for the Soviet Union named Alexi Sarov from using a nuclear bomb to blow up Russia. He believes if he blows up Russia, it will regain power. They go to stop a salesman who sold Sarov the nuclear materials and he dies. When Alex, Glen, and Belinda try to break into Sarov's mansion located on an island called Skeleton Key, Belinda and Glen are killed and Alex is kept inside Sarov's property. Since Sarov lost his son, he treats Alex like his son, but will not let Alex leave the island to spoil his plans.Can Alex escape and stop the bomb? Read to find out!

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