review of Shan's Zom-b Mission

B is recruited with other Angels to take some human survivors to a settlement.  She meets with an old school friend, Vinyl, who works as a guide.  They learn that the KKK have come over to England and are starting to run rampant and recruit amongst the settlements.  B realizes that the settlement that she just left is going to be attacked by the KKK when she follows a sheep dog to the Owl Man.  They head back to the settlement to intervene, but the KKK get there first.  The Angels scale the wall and go in to fight. 

review of Lane's Snakebite

This book continues the story of the young Sherlock Holmes.  He is, at this point, in deep trouble with the Paradol organization.  They plan to start wars and bring in profit for themselves.  In each book of the series, he had fouled up their plans.  They are at the point that they just want to get rid of him.

The beginning has him on a ship as a stowaway working as a cabin boy.  He acquires another teacher who is Chinese and teaches him Tai chi and Mandarin.  They dock in Singapore and Sherlock starts to put together the information to solve another mystery.  Pirates, a silver skinned man, and a snake with a broken tooth going around biting and killing certain people is the mystery and Sherlock’s just the young man for the job.

review of O'Brien's the Vault of Dreamers

Rosie Sinclair is at a special school for talented teenagers.  They are televised as a reality tv show during the day and at night they are to sleep for twelve hours.  The one night that she decides not to sleep and sneaks out is the night that changes everything.  The next day she must raise her blip ranking (popularity amongst viewers) in order to stay at the school.  She stays, but the question is whether she really wants to be there.  All of the strange things happening might make her change her mind.  She stays and she fights for what she thinks is right.  Rosie wants nothing more than to expose what really happens at the school.  She wants the world to know what Dean Berg is doing with the student’s dreams.

review of Doctor Who:Engines of War

This is the war doctor’s book.  The one where he is set on bringing down the Daleks and makes the decisions that need to be made.  He picks up a human companion who is stuck in the war.  She is a self made soldier with orange hair and a love for women over men.  She is set on the ending the Time War just as he is.  She has had to live through it and have the fear and adrenaline rule her life.

The war doctor appears and she finds hope.  He appeals to the Time Lords and the reader understands why he did not want them to make it out of the war.  They were becoming something else in the war.  They were losing who they were supposed to be.  It comes down to the war doctor and his moral judgment to save the planets that the Time Lords were planning to kill to ensure their own victory.  The Time Lords were seeing themselves as superior and experimenting on their own people.  They were planning genocide with no sense of remorse.  If the war doctor can’t make them find themselves and see the error of their ways, he can fix it himself.

review of Dashner's the Kill Order

To put it simply, this book is a prequel to the Maze Runner series.  It is best read after the series, so as not to give away the best bits of the series.  It would take away the mystery of what is happening within the series itself. 

Reader’s should partake in this glorious book so as to understand how it all came to be.  How the Scorch hit.  The sun and then the military taking out the population.  To actually be there for it and to see how something like WICKED was seen as good.  How it was not only allowed to exist, but how desparate everyone was for it.

review of Dale Peck's Sprout

The voice of this book is iron clad and cannot be broken.  The same can be said for the protagonist Daniel aka Sprout.  He leaves his mark behind of green fingerprints of everything that he touches.  He is incredibly smart and carries around a dictionary like it’s his favorite fiction book.  Sprout is a fascinating character who draws the reader in with his quick wit and unique view of the world. 

The tone and voice of the book remind me of Chris Colfer’s Struck By Lightning.  This boy is far more lost regarding himself.  His life is worse off by far.  They are both the type of voices that people need to hear in order to understand that there are different ways of life and thinking.

review of Adams' Salmon of Doubt

Douglas Adams does it again.  He takes an idea that is ludicrous and makes us realize that it is much more than some ludicrous idea.  It is something to be desired because it inspires adventure and something to be sought after because it inspires thinking.  A personal philosophy is what Adams’ stories sell.  Not just his own personal philosophy.  He sets up a ludicrous idea/world and then has the lead character simply go with it and learn from it.  They live from moment to moment and do not get hung up on the past.  They learn to think which makes the reader learn to think since they are reading through the lead’s perspective.  A personal philosophy can be found within every Adam book.  It is not just his own, but that of the characters and readers that are discovered.