Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Teen review by Alice. . .Graceling by Kristin Cashore

This truly is an amazing book! It's full everything you'll want to read about; fantasy, mystery, adventure, and romance are on every page of this book.

Read this book and enter the world of Katsa, a girl who was able to kill a man bare-handed since she was eight. She is a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. She's forced to work as the thug of her uncle Randa, king of Middluns, because of her Graced killing skills. When she met Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, her life started to change.

She never expected to become Po's friend. She never expected to disobey Randa's order nor having to leave her homeland behind to help Po search for the kidnapper of his grandfather. As the story unfolds, readers will be captured by the many life-or-death situations Katsa will be facing, and discover many astonishing secrets along with Katsa and Po.

All in all, this is an awesome book, and I'm looking forward to reading the 2nd book, Fire.



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If you've already read and enjoyed Graceling, try one of these:


>Gifts
by Ursula K. LeGuin

Daughter of the Flames
by Zoe Marriott

Savvy
by Ingrid Law

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Ninja Reviews... Jump the Cracks by Stacy DeKeyser

What would you do? Would you just leave? Or would you do something crazy and stay?

Victoria is fighting to deal with her parent's divorce, especially now that her dad lives in New York City and flakes out on her all the time. If he really cared...if he really loved her...he would make the effort. Right?

But when Victoria's dad once again flakes and is late picking her up at the train station during the start of her summer visit, Victoria gets mad. While angry she witnesses a young mom throw her bruised toddler in a train bathroom and walk off the train and onto the platform. Not knowing what to do, and angry at the injustice of parents who don't keep promises, Victoria makes the life-changing decision to hop back on the train and leave town, taking the toddler with her. She won't let him fall through the cracks.