Book Review: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

  

Title: Taken 

Author: Alexander Gordon Smith

Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release Date:  October 27th 2009

Series: Escape from the Furnace

Source: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 273

Synopsis: Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison. 

Together with a bunch of inmates—some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers—Alex plans an escape. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace’s deeper, darker purpose, Alex’s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that’s hidden from the eyes of the world.

Book Review: The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

Title: The Kiss of Deception

Author:Mary E. Pearson

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Release Date:  July 8th 2014

Series: The Remnant Chronicles

Source: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 492

Synopsis: A princess must find her place in a reborn world.

She flees on her wedding day.

She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.

She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.

She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.

 

I'm Back!

So I guess I should apologies for dropping off the face of the earth. In my defense I never truly meant to be gone for so long. I just got behind on my reading and then got behind on reviewing and was never able to catch back up. But a New Year means that I'm done making excuses and that I'm going to try to stick with blogging. So keep following because not only am I going to become more active I'm also going to be improving my site.

Book Review: Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury

Title: Night of the Howling Dogs

Author: Graham Salisbury

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Release Date: January 1^st 2007

Series: N/A

Source: Paperback

Number of Pages: 208

Letter Size: Small

Synopsis:

DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan just can't get along.

That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. Dylan and Louie must team up on a dangerous rescue mission. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.

Book Review: Mind Games by Kiersten White

Title: Mind Games

Author: Kiersten White

Publisher: Harper Teen

Release Date: February 19^th 2013

Series: Mind Games #1

Source: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 237

Letter Size: Medium

Synopsis:

Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future.

Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways…or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey.

Book Review: A Mutiny in Time by James Dashner

Title: A Mutiny in Time

Author: James Dashner

Publisher: Scholastic

Release Date: August 28^th 2012

Series: Infinity Ring #1

Source: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 190

Letter Size: Medium

Synopsis:

When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the secret of time travel -- a hand-held device known as the Infinity Ring -- they're swept up in a centuries-long secret war for the fate of mankind. Recruited by the Hystorians, a secret society that dates back to Aristotle, the kids learn that history has gone disastrously off course.Now it's up to Dak, Sera, and teenage Hystorian-in-training Riq to travel back in time to fix the Great Breaks . . . and to save Dak's missing parents while they're at it. First stop: Spain, 1492, where a sailor named Christopher Columbus is about to be thrown overboard in a deadly mutiny!

Book Review: Gone by Michael Grant

Title: Gone

Author: Michael Grant

Publisher: Harper Teen

Release Date: January 1^st, 2008

Series: Gone #1

Source: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 558

Letter Size: Medium/Large

Synopsis:

In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.

There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents--unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers--that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...