the book The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott was amazing. twins sophie and josh found them selves at the wrong place at the wrong time, when Nicholas Flamel was ransacked by dee for a magical book that holds the secrets to the universe. josh ended up saving the day by ripping some pages of the book that turns out to be really important. they end up running away from dee for he was once Nicholas' pupil and had learned powerful and ancient magic. it was overall a really great book. i cant wait to read the next one.
i didn't like the book Graceling by Kristin Cashore. the first couple of chapters were odd, confusing, and down right bad. i ended up not finishing it. i stopped at about page 80 and it was just bad. it sounded so good when i read the back of the book but i found it a little misleading. it said that she could kill anybody with her bear fingers so i thought it would be a book full of battles keeping me on the edge of my seat. but instead it was a couple of "deaths" here and there, it wasn't even killing it was giving them a pill to knock them out. but she doesn't even want to use her abilities, she would rather be normal. and why choose the eyes to identify them, i would have chosen a mark or tatoo. overall i would have changed things to make the book better.
In the book The Son of Neptune beloved character Percy Jackson wakes up in San Francisco with no memory of his past. He ends up in the Roman version of camp Half-Blood. Along with Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang he sets off to Alaska to free death from chains. Along the way they go through past of all three protagonists. Hazel, daughter of Pluto (Hades), helped resurrect Gaea and died but her “brother” brought her back to life. Frank, son of mars (Ares), has a family line that has so much power along the way Juno (Hera) had to make a piece of that if burn his life would start to deplete. Percy, son of Neptune (Poseidon), had been starting to remember his past and remet Tyson. Percy was fighting to save to camps, camp Half-Blood and camp Jupiter, which means he had to families to protect. He would do anything to protect anyone from either camp even risk his own life. You have to protect what is precious to you.
Percy just woke up and this old lady asked him to carry her to Camp Jupiter. She gave him a choice to carry her or go to the water he would be safe. He chose to carry her, it turned or to be the goddess Juno, she said there was a quest to go to Alaska and free Death from chains which was allowing people to come back from the dead. Someone had to step up and accept the quest. Frank Zhang did, he chose Hazel and Percy to join him. Percy knew no one there and he still took the quest and set out to save camp Jupiter because he knew it was important to his new friends show more Frank and Hazel. All three of them had to risk their lives and wellbeing to keep the quest alive.
The three of them had to find the Amazons, an ancient group of girls who don’t like guys. Their leader is the sister of the leader of camp Jupiter and they hope they will help in the fight against Gaea. Percy and Frank end up locked up and Hazel has a chance to leave without them or break out the fastest horse alive, fight the Amazons that have sided with Gaea, free the guys, and escape. She chose to fight and save them because she could never leave a friend behind.
When they make it to Alaska they have to find where they are keeping death chained up. They have no help from anyone; the gods have no “jurisdiction” in Alaska. When they find him they can’t break the icy chains death says that one of them has to put their lives on the line to break them. Immediately Frank knew what he had to do. He took out the piece of wood that if lit he life would start to deplete. He lit it and put the flames up to the chains. The chains melted one by one; when death was free all of the people who were supposed to be dead were dragged back to the underworld. Frank was weak and almost dead, the piece of wood was almost all charred the fire went out. He survived but just barely.
At the end of the story they all make it back against the odds. Percy says that kids from camp Half-Blood are coming, people say to shoot them down but Percy convinces them to let them land. When they land a kid named Leo pops out and tells Percy to hop in. he turns to Hazel and Frank and tells them he wants them to me his other family. In a week every one had become his family at camp Jupiter. show less
Percy just woke up and this old lady asked him to carry her to Camp Jupiter. She gave him a choice to carry her or go to the water he would be safe. He chose to carry her, it turned or to be the goddess Juno, she said there was a quest to go to Alaska and free Death from chains which was allowing people to come back from the dead. Someone had to step up and accept the quest. Frank Zhang did, he chose Hazel and Percy to join him. Percy knew no one there and he still took the quest and set out to save camp Jupiter because he knew it was important to his new friends show more Frank and Hazel. All three of them had to risk their lives and wellbeing to keep the quest alive.
The three of them had to find the Amazons, an ancient group of girls who don’t like guys. Their leader is the sister of the leader of camp Jupiter and they hope they will help in the fight against Gaea. Percy and Frank end up locked up and Hazel has a chance to leave without them or break out the fastest horse alive, fight the Amazons that have sided with Gaea, free the guys, and escape. She chose to fight and save them because she could never leave a friend behind.
When they make it to Alaska they have to find where they are keeping death chained up. They have no help from anyone; the gods have no “jurisdiction” in Alaska. When they find him they can’t break the icy chains death says that one of them has to put their lives on the line to break them. Immediately Frank knew what he had to do. He took out the piece of wood that if lit he life would start to deplete. He lit it and put the flames up to the chains. The chains melted one by one; when death was free all of the people who were supposed to be dead were dragged back to the underworld. Frank was weak and almost dead, the piece of wood was almost all charred the fire went out. He survived but just barely.
At the end of the story they all make it back against the odds. Percy says that kids from camp Half-Blood are coming, people say to shoot them down but Percy convinces them to let them land. When they land a kid named Leo pops out and tells Percy to hop in. he turns to Hazel and Frank and tells them he wants them to me his other family. In a week every one had become his family at camp Jupiter. show less
This is a great second book to the Kane series. In the last book Carter and Sadie Kane found out that they are descendants from two major Egyptian pharaoh blood-lines. they also found out that they were each hosting a god witch at the end of the book they "released".
They start the book off with a great hook. it starts off with Carter and Sadie with two new recruits named Walt and Jaz. they are at museum trying to find the first out of 3 scrolls to reawaken the sun god Ra. they find it and as soon as Sadie picks it up spirits come out and attack. after that a battle breaks loose and Jaz ends up sacrificing herself to save the other three.
In the book it is just battle after battle with a few puzzles here and there. Rick Riordan is my favorite author, I love mythology and he takes the three best known gods, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian, and made them into there own series. i think mythology is great topic to write about because there are endless possibilities of what you can do with it. i think its funny because Rick Riordan makes little references to his other books.
the book Throne of Fire is full of excitement from one page to another. Even when Carter and Sadie are in an nursing home he finds a way to fit in a huge back story and still have time to have allot of excitement.
The book great overall, with them going to an under world nursing home for the gods to an invisible mansion on top of a factory in New York the Kane's adventures never seem to stop. I can't wait for show more the next book that Rick Riordan publishes show less
They start the book off with a great hook. it starts off with Carter and Sadie with two new recruits named Walt and Jaz. they are at museum trying to find the first out of 3 scrolls to reawaken the sun god Ra. they find it and as soon as Sadie picks it up spirits come out and attack. after that a battle breaks loose and Jaz ends up sacrificing herself to save the other three.
In the book it is just battle after battle with a few puzzles here and there. Rick Riordan is my favorite author, I love mythology and he takes the three best known gods, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian, and made them into there own series. i think mythology is great topic to write about because there are endless possibilities of what you can do with it. i think its funny because Rick Riordan makes little references to his other books.
the book Throne of Fire is full of excitement from one page to another. Even when Carter and Sadie are in an nursing home he finds a way to fit in a huge back story and still have time to have allot of excitement.
The book great overall, with them going to an under world nursing home for the gods to an invisible mansion on top of a factory in New York the Kane's adventures never seem to stop. I can't wait for show more the next book that Rick Riordan publishes show less