Warriors: Book 1: Into the Wild By Erin Hunter

There are so many good fantasy books (the genre which I am mainly interested in...) that need to be known about! The Warriors series is an amazing series that shows the story of wild forest cats that are affected and essentially influenced by the humans, or known by the cats as Twolegs. Oh, and by the way, Erin Hunter is not a real person. Well, I guess she is, or more like they are! Erin Hunter is really 3 people, Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary and Victoria Holmes. They work together to write the series.

For long centuries, the four Clans of wild cats have divided the forest according to the boundaries laid by their warrior ancestors. 'But ThunderClan is in danger and ShadowClan grows stronger everyday.' (Erin just describes it so perfectly!) great warriors are dying and some deaths have mysteries to go with them...

In the middle of the anxiety, a normal house cat, Rusty, comes out into the forest. He may turn out to be the best warrior of them all.

An amazing (and extremely long!) series with excitement, twists, in depth semi-series and shocking prophecies that will leave you speechless. I know, over used, but true. With a total of 29 books in all, and more still coming, these books will keep you reading for months.

-Sashanimal :)

Blue Bloods By Melissa De La Cruz

As you MUST eventually find out about me, I absolutely love vampires and vampire books (especially when they have some sort of twist or romance in them!). Along with Twilight, another amazing vampire series is Blue Bloods. In this series, vampire stereotypes are pretty much insignificant and don't apply. Apparently, the pilgrims who first settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts were the first vampires, called Blue Bloods for their eventually

(you guessed it!) blue blood.

Schuyler goes to school at Duchesne with some of the most prestigious families of Massachusetts and she has never fit in. She wears old, baggy, black clothes instead of the 'Prada and pearls' (as Melissa describes it) that all the other kids wear. She lives with her grandmother in a ragged mansion and is fine with being alone.

But abruptly, her life changes. On her fifteenth birthday, she starts craving raw meat, and has a twisted array of blue veins on her forearms. The death of a Duchesne girl is a mystery that torments her. And even stranger, Jack Force, the most popular guy in school is showing a sudden interest in her. Schuyler wants to figure out her fellow vampires' secrets. But is it possible she's in danger?

Melissa De La Cruz weaves a complicated and fascinating vampire series with major revelations in every single book. But I suggest this book for people who are only 12 or older. There are just a few parts. Not too many worries though. It's still an amazing book! Hope you read it!

Midnighters: Secret Hour By Scott Westerfeld

As you may have guessed, I REALLY like Scott Westerfeld! He is sooo cool. This was the second series by him I read and this, Secret Hour, is the first in the Midnighters series. In these books, and I guess possibly in real life, there are really 25 hours in the day instead of 24. As Scott Westerfeld describes it on one of his website, 'The extra [25th] hour is rolled up too tight to see and it flashes past most people in an instant.' Most people are not born in the amazing 1/86,400 fraction of the day that is glorious midnight, but those who are can be called Midnighters. Midnighters are the only people who live through the secret hour while all the other people are frozen, yet this only happens in Bixby, Okalhoma (too complicated! Well, not really, you'll get used to it...). Wait, one more thing...... the Midnighters are not the only ones in the midnight hour. They are creatures afraid of the number 13, like darklings and slithers. It's different when you're not on the top of the food chain...

Jessica Day is new to Bixby, and when Rex (he can tell where darklings have been and can see if some one is a Midnighter) looks at Jessica he can tell... she's not a normal daylighter. But when she finds herself in the midnight hour and Rex, Melissa (mindcaster) and Dess (polymath a.k.a math specialist. She finds 13 letter words called tridacalogisms to scare away the darklings with) check to make sure she is a Midnighter by looking at the moon (Midnighter's eyes flash purple in the blue-moonlight, sorry this whole thing is so confusing!), her eyes didn't flash. Also, almost all Midnighters have a certain power.

What is Jessica's power? Why does she seem different? Why do all the darklings and slithers want to destroy her? Ha, bet you didn't expect THAT one, but it's true! Read the series to find out all those 'whys'!

Here are some Midnighters and Scott Westerfeld links:

http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/index.htm (his website)

http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/blog/ (his blog)

http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/midnighters/index.htm (his midnighters website)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnighters_trilogy

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

This is deffinately one of my favorite books (and series) of all time! Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is about a girl, Bella, who comes from Arizona to Forks, Washington, to live with her father. Bella's parents divorced when she was young and her mother's new boyfriend plays baseball and has to move often. In Forks, many of the boys like her but there is just one family she is curious about.

The Cullens. Pale, ice cold, strong, fast, not like other people. Of the Cullens, Edward is the one who stands out to her. When Bella walked by him, Edward's reaction was so strong, full of something like hate for a total stranger. It was surprising to her.

Until she found out...
The Cullens are vampires.

An amazing romance novel, adventure, fantasy and a bit of horror, this book will keep you reading for hours and probably days straight!

Also, the movie may not be as good as the book, but I still recommend it. I personally saw the movie before reading the book and I liked that mainly because it helped me visualize the people and then they described them in the book which backed up the movie's actors. I know some people read the book first but if I had, I know it would be more disappointing to see my favorite book parts left out. But that's my opinion! You can decide for yourself if you want to read it at all!

-Sashanimal :)

Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

Okay, I'm feeling ambitious today. I'm going to do another review, but of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Uglies is a futuristic book where on every one's sixteenth birthday, they get an amazing surgery that makes them from an Ugly into a Pretty. Now let me explain, people under sixteen aren't really ugly, but compared to Pretties they are and their society has taught them that you can't be pretty without the operation. Also, when you become a Pretty you get to live in New Pretty Town where your only job is to have fun. How cool is that?!

Tally is fifteen and only weeks from turning pretty. But then Tally's new friend, Shay, doesn't want to become pretty. She instead wants to go live outside her city in the wild with a group of other Uglies who didn't want to be pretty called The Smoke. The Smoke survives on the wilderness and anything they brought from the city on their trip there. When Shay runs away, Tally is brought to a secret and... special group of authorities that gives her an impossibly hard choice: Go to The Smoke and turn Shay in or never turn pretty at all. Whatever her choice, it'll definitely gets ugly... (Yes, stupid pun intended)

Uglies is fast-paced, fascinating, and leaves you wanting more. (which you do get, there are four books in this series!)

Have fun reading, whether it's this book or any other!

-Sashanimal :)

Oops! I forgot to add these links about The 39 Clues!

http://www.the39clues.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Clues

-Sashanimal :)

The 39 Clues: Book 1: Maze of Bones

So, this review is of the first 39 Clues book, Maze of Bones, written by Rick Riordan. Many different popular authors are working together to write these books. Each book has 6 cards that you can register online (with an account) at the 39 Clues website to get extra clues.

The series is about one of the most powerful and influential families in history, the Cahills. All of the Cahill branches, specializing in different things, (Janus, Lucian, Tomas and Ekaterina) are racing to find all 39 Clues. The first people to find them are to become the richest and most important people in history. In the first book, Grace Cahill, one of the people who knows about their heritage, has died and at her funeral they introduce the characters. A select few are given the choice: take a million dollars and leave, or get the first clue. Amy and Dan, brother and sister (also the main characters) take the clue. They find themselves in many places, from Boston to the Catacombs of Paris!

This book (and the whole series) is action-packed and highly entertaining. I definitely suggest this book.

My First Blog Entry

Hey people! This blog is all about reviews of books I've read, authors, books I recommend and books I'm reading! I'll also say a little about what I'm doing lately, events I have gone to (or will go to) and any other random things I may be thinking about.

-Sashanimal :)