September 5

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

A great read and very addictive…once I started I couldn’t put it down. I had to download the audio version off of Overdirve so that Icould continue the story at all times.

The Hunger Games is a young-adult science fiction series that introduces sixteen-year-old Katnis Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where North America once existed. This is where a government working in a central city called the Capitol holds power.

In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each of 12 districts to fight to the death. The Hunger Games exist to demonstrate that not even children are beyond the reach of the Capitol’s jurisdiction.

The series continues with the uprising of the other districts against the Capitol’s diabolical rule. Follow Katnis’s story as she tries to find her way in this world and keep her family and friends safe.

 

5/5 stars

Category: Been made into a movie, Senior Fiction, Year 8+ | LEAVE A COMMENT
September 5

Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan

It started out as a joke between two best friends. Chloe came up with the idea that we would stage a kidnapping. She would play the vanished victim and I, Finn would be the distraught best friend who would rescue her and bring her home. We’d be famous, we’d make the headlines and use it to get into any university we wanted. That’s how the whole thing began. At first the plan went perfectly until it went horribly wrong.

This story give you an insight into how a simple harmless idea can start a domino effect that rocks the worlds of all of the people that these two girls call friends and family. It begs the question…when is to far to go back?

Category: Year 8+ | LEAVE A COMMENT