I've just finished The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare, so a review will be up in a few days!
Just thought I should let you know since I haven't been that active recently. My apologies, for that. School has started for me, and I have a lot of homework and marching band and, ugh, why can't school just stop getting in the way of me reading?
–Oswin H.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
The 5th Wave
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is the first alien apocalyptic novel that I've read, and I was not disappointed.
The 5th Wave is about a girl named Cassie Sullivan. not Cassie for Cassidy or Cassie for Cassandra, but Cassie for Cassiopeia. After her parents die, and her little brother, Sammy, is taken, she is on her own in the forest with nothing but a few pictures, some food, a backpack, her brother's teddy bear, and the M16 that her father gave her. She is out on a mission to save her brother, but when she is injured she wakes up in the bed of a boy about her age named Evan, who helps her get back on her feet. Will she save her brother?
This novel has 457 pages (hardback edition). It is separated into XIII (13) parts and 91 short chapters. The writing was spectacular, and the story itself was fast paced and a very enthralling read. The character were well written and like able. The story is told from four points of views. One part is in Sammy's point of view, one is in the viewpoint of the person who injured Cassie, and a majority of the parts are told from the viewpoints of Cassie and a boy from a place called Camp Haven, which I will get to a bit later.
I found myself on the edge of my seat, flipping pages to the early hours of the morning, just so I could finish this book sooner. It is full of action, amazing characters, and even a bit of romance and sentiment.
Basically, the alien apocalypse comes in waves. each wave gets worse and worse, killing more and more people. Now, the fifth wave is being thrown at the world, but nobody knows what it is. It is silent, and some people think there isn't even another wave coming. Have the aliens given up on killing all of the human species? Or are they just taking their time? What is the fifth wave?
The characters in the book are all asking these questions and are working towards the answers. At Camp Haven, Sargent Parrish, who is the narrator for part of the novel, is told that there will be no fifth wave. It has been months since the fourth wave, so if there was going to be a fifth wave, then it would have happened already. Still, the children of Camp Haven are being prepped and trained for the alien invasion. They are worked as if they are at bootcamp, and they are able to graduate and go into battle at the young age of seven, M16 by his or her side, combat boots strapped and army uniforms present.
Cassie believes she is the only person left on earth sometimes, and then she finds bodies that are still warm to the touch and she remembers that the idea is nearly impossible. She keeps her M16 loaded and ready to shoot if a drone attacks her, or if so territorial survivors try to get her off their turf. She is alone, until a boy finds her injured and takes her in to help her get better. Together, will they find Cassie's brother, who was loaded on a bus going God knows where? And what kind of relationship will the two teenagers form?
I highly recommend this book, especially to young adult science fiction fans. It was an amazing book, and I know that I will reread it sometime in the future.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
I had to read A Separate Peace by John Knowles for my summer reading, Sophomore year.
I quite enjoyed this story, and it had earned a 4 out of 5 star rating on my Goodreads. The characters, well the main characters at least, are quite likable, although I preferred Phineas over the narrator, Gene Forrester. The events of this book were interesting and a bit surprising, seeing as I thought this was going to be a boring book about teenagers goofing around at boarding school in the 1940s. I went into not expecting to like it and finished it quite satisfied.
I do have one complaint. A huge event happens at the end of the book, and it was not handled well. Knowles did not do a good job of writing it, and the characters emotions and the way they delivered their speech about it was horribly written.
I do not have much more to say, other than the fact that I recommend it to teenagers and anyone who enjoys reading classics.
–OH
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