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Gail reviewed Unearthly – By: Cynthia Hand

Unearthly is first a book about angels, yet again.  In this book though, every angel gets a purpose that they recieve through visions later on in their adolescent life. Clara is a girl with a quarter angel blood and at the beginning of the book, she starts to recieve her purpose.  Clara's mother is half angel blood and immediately decides after listening to Clara's brief vision, that they need to move to the location of her purpose, that being Wyoming.  When they first get to Wyoming, Clara's glory starts to show in her hair.  Glory is essentially when someone of angel blood starts to show their angelic light and it also makes those without angel blood become shocked, unable to speak. Because of this, Clara is forced to die her hair an unpleasent carrot orange. Later on in the story, as the visions become more frequent, Clara recognizes what her purpose is, that she has to save Christian Prescott, the official hottie of school.  That starts Clara's attempts at trying to become his girlfriend although he already has one, and completing her purpose.  The one thing that i absolutly loved about this book was that i didn't know which boy she was going to end up with.  There's Christian and someone else, who i won't say because that sort of spoils the story.  Usually the guy that the main character loves is pretty obvious but in this story, you think it's one person but no, it's the other then it switches all over again. It definitely will keep you on the edge and the pages turning until you get to the last page. I also really like surprises in the books i read because usually i figure out what the surprises are going to be but i guess i was so caught up in the romance of this story that i didn't even pay attention and expect the surprise.  The setting isn't explained with much depth and the focus is more on dialogues.  The one thing i found bad about this book was the some of the characters weren't developed fully until they showed up later.  A character would appear with a brief description of who they are and then leave.  Later they would reappear and have more description but not fully. I guess what i'm trying to say is that everytime a minor character appears, you learn more about them.  I don't like describing characters and it could just be me who feels that way.  The main plot of this book is also throughout the story but often is forgotten in the main characters social and romance problems.  Often it's problem problem, back to the purpose, problem problem, and the purpose, problem again and then new vison. There are alot of sub plots in this story.  That being said, this is probably my favourite new series and i absolutely cannot wait for the new sequel! Go read it if you haven't!!!

Lyric reviewed Warriors 1: Into the Wild – By: Erin Hunter

One night,  Bluestar sat beside Spottedleaf. Spottedleaf recieved an omen- "Fire alone can save our clan" sent by the heaven in StarClan.
Rusty was a normal kitty-pet, a cat raised by humans, who found it different in his luxurious life and always found it unsatisfying. Every night he dreams of trying to catch a live mouse and taste fresh-kill. One night, in a scene far away, a battle is being fought in the forest beside Rusty's home. The battle is being fought by warrior cats of the wild. After the winning clan, ThunderClan ( that's how they spell it!), takes over the territory, an apprentice named Graypaw comes close to the border of the forest and finds Rusty trying to catch a real mouse in real life. Rusty smells Graypaw's scent and realizes a forest cat is close by. With natural skills of a cat, Rusty takes down Graypaw with a fight. Blustar, ThunderClan's leader, appears out of the forest then followed by another cat and approves of Rusty's skills and then she blindly invites him in her clan due to the lack of fighter cats. After thinking he joins the clan. Unfortunately,  kitty-pets were unwelcome there and even through his accomplishments the taunts didn't stop. Rusty was then apprenticed and his name got changed to Firepaw. Through training under shared warriors- Tigerclaw and Whitestorm, Firepaw gets apprenticed by Bluestar herself thanks to his skills as a warrior. After treachery, battles, friendships and deaths of beloved, Firepaw and Graypaw (I forgot to mention that they were friends from the beginning of the time Firepaw came to ThunderClan) with their help and loyalty to their clan and with their friendship are promoted to warriors- the cats who are to protect, help and supply the clan. They continue their adventures with betrayal, friendship, losses, gains and love in the clan's future closing in. Read the other series to learn.