It’s
really good, I cried. He’s born an old man and ages in reverse. It’s really
horrible to see that when you’re first born and when you die are much the same.
I really loved it. I found it really sad how his parents basically disowned
him, not caring for him as an old man at all but then loving him when he became
younger. I didn’t like that.
Rated: 4/5
buttons .“I love the story and F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s writing.”
It’s about
Mikey, he’s just trying to graduate before his high school gets blown up. There
are some weird shenanigans going on, and last time weird shenanigans were going
on, the high school was blown up, and he wants none of that. There’s a really
interesting contrast. The thing that I really like about it, is he still
stresses himself out over petty high school nothings. While there’s a real possibility
of an explosion that will kill everyone, a car crash and all this mad stuff
that happens and he’s still like “but
what about the Prom?!” He stresses himself out about that, it’s crazy.
There are these little kids called The Indie Kids that keep on fighting and
dying, but no one cares. Everyone is like “you
hear about that Indie kid that died?” they do not have any regard for their
existence whatsoever. Pretty much the plot is Mikey trying to live his life;
graduate and get the girl, but all of this mad stuff is going on, like
thousands of deer rushing him and beaming lights in the forest.
Rated: 4/5
dead Indie kids. “It’s a good book, I
enjoyed it. Ness is one of my favourite writers of all time”
The whole
book is based off of a study that argues that fear can be passed down in your
genes through generations. Like if your mum is scared of something, most likely
you will be too. In the book the mum of the main character, Kelsey was kidnapped
when she was the age Kelsey is now. She came back a year later, pregnant. One
day Kelsey freaks out and accidentally drives off a bridge. After being
rescued, she sneaks out to attend the ceremony where her rescuer will be
awarded a medal for bravery. When she comes home her mum is missing again. Her
mum was so scared that she was always house bound, with all the windows and
doors dead locked. There are signs of a struggle and there are two guys outside
the house trying to get in. This scene stretches out to about half of the book,
and that’s all that I’ve read so far…
Rated: 2.5/5
fears. “It’s pretty good, but it’s not
Hysteria good”
Shade, The
Changing Girl, Volume 1, written by Cecil Castellucci, drawn by Marley Zarcone,
Review by Isabella
Really,
really cool. Basically the plot is Loma Shade, who comes from another planet,
is getting bored with her life and is inspired by this poet. She steals his madness
coat from a museum, and then she transmits herself into the comatose body of a
girl on Earth. The girl she has possessed is Megan. Everyone hates Megan. It’s really weird because
Loma is a completely different person, but no one notices, they just think she
sustained some brain damage. There are times when she says things like “I’m not used to this body” and no one
picks up on it, which is a bit weird. There are multiple plots, like the people
in her home planet who are rushing to get the coat back before Loma goes mad,
while she’s just making friends and living the American high school dream.
There’s also her comatose body lying about in a basement back on her home
planet…
Rated: 5/5
madness coats. “The art is soo pretty,
really colourful, stuff going on everywhere”
Arthur
Dent gets out of bed one morning, and finds that people are trying to demolish
his house. He goes to visit his friend Ford Prefect. He goes back to his house
that’s being demolished and then boom, Vogons, these ugly slug people, want to
build a hyper-space bypass through earth. They hitch a ride on the Vogon’s
ship, and the Vogons read poetry to them, but it’s really bad. They nearly die
and then they get taken to the airlock by this one guard and he keeps yelling
about how useless they are and they try and convince him not to throw them out.
They get rescued by a ship called The Heart of Gold and they know everyone on
board by pure coincidence, like the president of the ships and this girl Arthur
met at a party. He kinda doesn’t tell her that Earth got blown up. Then they go
to this planet Magrathea where there are these missiles…
A lot happens, including but not limited to:
police shootings, a botched brain transplant, a computer suicide and a
restaurant at the end of the universe. Arthur never knows what’s going on, and there’s
a running joke that he’s always in his dressing gown because that’s what he
left in. He also can’t get a cup of tea anywhere.
Rated: 5/5
paranoid androids.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, Review by Olivia
It’s about
this girl who has a toy rabbit. She has all of these really nice outfits for it
and when she goes out she places him by the window so he can watch her return.
She goes on a boat trip with her family and when some boys take Edward and
start throwing him about on board, he ends up in the ocean. He is found by a
fisherman first and then he moves from person to person as he is lost and
misplaced until he finds his way back home.
Rated: 4.5/5
china rabbits. “I’ve read this book
multiple times, I always go back to it”
They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera, Review by Wei Li
The concept of this world is that you get a call just before midnight saying that today is the day you will die. So you get to know in advance, so do what ever you want today, nothing is going to matter because you'll be dead soon. Your death is inevitable. So they call you within 24 hours of your death. So two boys, Mateo and Rufus get the phone call. The story is told from their perspectives and bunch of other characters who interact with them. One of them is a delinquent who was beating up a guy before the call. He doesn't tell anyone, especially not the guy he was beating up on. The other one is a gentle person. He has a friend who has just had a baby. They're all seventeen, eighteen years-old. They're polar opposites of each other. There's a site where people who are about to die go on to get comfort. There are some really weird perverts on there, but they end up contacting each other and spend their last day together. Neither of them want to see their family and friends sad because it's their death day, so they don't tell anyone. So the story is about their last day, avoiding the guy who was beaten on and falling in love. It's very sweet and sad.
Rated: 5/5 car crashes. "It put me through a bunch of emotions. It sort of gives you this lost feeling every now and then. It's really heart breaking. It's fabulous, I cried, I loved it"
A Waltz for Matilda: The Matilda Saga, Book 1 by Jackie French, Review by Erin
The story is based on the song. There's a girl called Matilda who goes off to find her father, a swagman. It's really good because it completely changes your perspective on what the song is about. It's very complicated because the way the author writes makes it not sound as sad, depressing or disgusting, but when you think about it later, you realize it's really messed up and awful. The ending could have been more satisfying.
Rated: 4/5 swagmen."This is the first book of the saga. It's really cool because of the historical setting."
They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera, Review by Wei Li
The concept of this world is that you get a call just before midnight saying that today is the day you will die. So you get to know in advance, so do what ever you want today, nothing is going to matter because you'll be dead soon. Your death is inevitable. So they call you within 24 hours of your death. So two boys, Mateo and Rufus get the phone call. The story is told from their perspectives and bunch of other characters who interact with them. One of them is a delinquent who was beating up a guy before the call. He doesn't tell anyone, especially not the guy he was beating up on. The other one is a gentle person. He has a friend who has just had a baby. They're all seventeen, eighteen years-old. They're polar opposites of each other. There's a site where people who are about to die go on to get comfort. There are some really weird perverts on there, but they end up contacting each other and spend their last day together. Neither of them want to see their family and friends sad because it's their death day, so they don't tell anyone. So the story is about their last day, avoiding the guy who was beaten on and falling in love. It's very sweet and sad.
Rated: 5/5 car crashes. "It put me through a bunch of emotions. It sort of gives you this lost feeling every now and then. It's really heart breaking. It's fabulous, I cried, I loved it"
A Waltz for Matilda: The Matilda Saga, Book 1 by Jackie French, Review by ErinThe story is based on the song. There's a girl called Matilda who goes off to find her father, a swagman. It's really good because it completely changes your perspective on what the song is about. It's very complicated because the way the author writes makes it not sound as sad, depressing or disgusting, but when you think about it later, you realize it's really messed up and awful. The ending could have been more satisfying.
Rated: 4/5 swagmen."This is the first book of the saga. It's really cool because of the historical setting."
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