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Jan reviewed Shine by Lauren Myracle

I have to honestly say I've never read a book like this before. I've never heard of the author nor of this book until I was skimming the Chapters.Indigo site online and came across this. After reading the blog behind the cover it seemed as though a boy named Patrick is the victim of a hate crime due to the fact that he's gay. Patrick now resting in a coma, his former best friend Cat is investigating the real truth behind what she assumes is a murder.
It sounds pretty straight forward doesn't it? Correct but incorrect. Reading the story I realized there was so much going on between the inhabitants of the small town. Between the small group of students that Patrick hung out with, relationship complications and affairs were secretly present. While Cat investigates Patrick's attack, she comes to realize that Black Creek isn't what she thought it truly was. She realizes that Black Creek is full of secrets and some, quite dangerous.
Cat is determined to strive to find the answers to the unexpected attack. Asking questions and soon receiving threatening answers, that scare her into a frenzy but she doesn't stop, knowing she's getting close to solving the mystery. She digs through the past she buried a long time ago, a past that she hasn't visited in a very long time. Shoveling out her buried past, she learns to trust the people in her life that wants to be apart of her. Living a simpler life before this incident she copes in new ways after finding the truth about what really happened and now moving on from it.
This story is full of mystery and adventure. The way Lauren Myracle writes is truly amazing. I can honestly say I would recommend this book to any one above the age of 13. The details and descriptions are so wonderfully written. You will thoroughly find that emotion covers every inch of this book. Filled with raw, horrendous emotions this books is not quite what looks like but much better. I found myself unable to set this book down. Cat discovers the clean, raw truth, ripping apart her former friends one by one, questioning each and every one of them putting her life on the line. Surprising events were revealed in every unknown cover. This book is truly magnificent. And in the end the boy I wouldn't be the cause to all this trouble was the one who couldn't control himself in the end. A devastating ending but a new chapter begins. I really recommend this. It's wonderful!

Kate reviewed The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This book if described in one word is breathtaking. Set in a modernized North America were nowhere is safe. 12 districts make up Panem ruled over by The Capitol. Each year 1 boy and 1 girl from each of the 12 districts are thrown in to a deadly game were only 1 survives. Children from the ages of 12 to 18 in each of the districts have their name placed in a glass bowl one for the girl's one for the boys and each year it's the same in district 12 there tributes die. District 12 is the poorest of the districts people die of starvation each day. This year The Hunger Games will be a bit different. Katniss Everdeen a 16 year old girl who is the provider of her family her sister Primrose Everdeen and their mother. All of you are thinking shouldn't there mother be the provider?? Well after a mine explosion in 12 There father died in a mining accident her mother has been in a deep depression ever since. She hunts illegally in the forests of 12 with her hunting partner 18 year old Gale Hawthorne who provides for his family of 5. The day of the reaping finally arrives as I said before this is no ordinary hunger games. at the reaping with only one slip of paper in the glass bowl Primrose Everdeen at the age of 12 was chosen for the hunger games Prim's sister Katniss volunteers for her and Katniss steps in to the world of The Hunger Games The World of Rebellion and The Life of the Mockingjay. A breathtaking tale of Love,Action and a bit of humour. Welcome to the world of The Hunger Games.

Yujing reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a riveting novel about Elizabeth Bennet, a headstrong and intelligent young woman living in the Victorian Era, who suffers from the societal prejudices of love, sex and marriage.
It is an enchanting tale of two unlikely individuals, whom through their witty exchanges and quick banter that they find love for each other and rebel against the societal norms of hauty pride and blind prejudice. The male protagonist, Mr. Darcy, is a rich and handsome man, although prude and self absorbed, whom is difficult to please. Through motifs of dance, conversation, and language, Elizabeth is the first woman (shocking in those days) to challenge Mr Darcy in terms of wit, intelligence and ideals. The victorian society is very strict with their social class and standings, so a man like Mr Darcy whom has good upbringing and "blood" often scorns upon people of lower class, like Elizabeth. This beautiful love story, woven with the beauty of language and intelligence, is sure to captivate readers at first read.
The language, true to it's origin, matches the old classic beauty of the setting. Set in old Victorian England, the novel's ideals of class and gender issues is explored beautifully.I highly recommend this beautiful classic book to anyone who wants a good summer read. Mr Darcy and Elizabeth will sure leave you begging for more!

Sabrina reviewed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

I'm a huge Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fan and the proud owner of all five books! Great series a tad bit girlie though deep inside even the toughest guy has shed a tear or is un-admittedly a fan of Pants!
The bond that four shares is clear, as different as they are and their lives are they somehow mange to always have room for each other not only that but they complete each another with Bridget's out going personality and Lena's shy one, Tibby's spunky unique style along with Carmen's "just trying to fit" in one
After thirteen years of life and countless "Yeah, I was just pretending not to know that" the happiest one was when a friend informed me there was a third book which the second movie was loosely based on and of course it was out shun when I saw a multiple copies of the fourth copy at Value Village and I was over joyed to see a fifth at Shoppers of the four ten years after with there separate jobs, in separate cities, separate states. Now I am left waiting for a sixth if anyone has knowledge of one please inform me Wikipedia has failed me twice!
I could name a million reasons why the sisterhood of the traveling pants series works but by the time I finished you could have read the entire series twice!