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  Everywhere I go, I see “Inheritance Games, Knives Out as a novel … fan of Knives Out? Inheritance Games is the next book for you”. I mean, it is like everybody on the internet found the exact same comparison. Google inheritance games, and Google Books will pop up first with a “Perfect for fans of Knives Out”. Are they actually that similar though? Inheritance games in a new released teenage novel featuring Avery Grambs, a high school teenager with nothing, living in a car. Until multi-billionaire Tobias Hawthorn leaves her his entire inheritance. Just from the opening scene, you can see the ties back to the 2019 movie, Knives Out. In the first half hour of Knives Out, you watch Marta Cabrera go from nothing to multimillionaire, and becoming part of the disinheritance of all of the millionaire’s relatives. The foundation of both works is exactly the same, almost to the exact same age and gender of the main character (Marta Cabrera is a few years older). Both Marta and Avery are se...

I am 100% certain that I’ll Give You the Sun will be my favourite book ever as long as I shall live and if there is an afterlife I will remember it too and even if I get reincarnated it will be the one thing that I have in my soul’s archives.  The whole book was exploding with emotions and whimsically abstract realities. It truly changed the way I saw the world. I felt like a muggle in Harry Potter who suddenly saw the true magical world behind the mist. Or perhaps more accurately, a muggle who figured out they were capable of magic.  First of all, Jandy Nelson is definitely an alien who has revealed to us the true beauty of our world and our own minds. I find it kind of unbelievable how the characters that narrate I’ll Give You the Sun , aren’t actually real. It really showed me how Jandy Nelson had those characters in her, they were clearly just two of millions of different perceptions and people in her mind. How could anyone replicate the way her main characters think in p...

         Unwind is a dystopian fiction book, YA.  In this society, there is a new law that is passed directly after the Heartland wars, which are many battles fought over the debate over abortion, with the pro-life against the pro-choice. This was a long and bloody conflict that only ended when a new idea was brought forth. This idea stated that a child must not be harmed up until the age of 12, but after that age the parents can choose to "Unwind" the child. A crude explanation of this is disassembling the child into parts, to sell to people in need of them. They become involuntary donors. This unwinding process must not kill the child, but keep him/her in a divided state, and they must use every single part, not one can be wasted. This idea ended the war, but started a new one. Teenagers were being targeted, marked, and just one tiny mistake could mean you are gone to a harvest camp. The main characters, Connor, Risa, and Lev, all have been marked fo...

  Red Queen is a YA fantasy novel written by Victoria Aveyard. It takes place in the Kingdom of Norta in 320, New Era. It tells the story of Mare Barrow, a 17 year old girl who discovers that she has the abilities of the higher class silvers, even thought she was born red. She lives in a society where status is determined by the color of your blood. Red blooded people are commoners and do all the work, while silver-blooded people, rich and wealthy, are royals that rule and carry special powers. The silvers infuriate Mare. How could a world like this be fair? While her brothers are away serving in the continuing war for the Silvers, Mare, a Red, lives in the Stilts with her younger sister, mother, and father. Mare spends her days in the Stilts with her best friend Kilorn while they wait for the day the are conscripted to war at 18. One day, she is taken away one day to work for the King. Despite having red blood, Mare learns while working for silvers that she has a Silver power of h...

85 percent of women return to abusive situations. This book is important for everyone to read so that if they ever find themselves in an abusive relationship, they know that “they deserve to be loved the right way”(249), and so that they if they know a victim of domestic violence they have more distaste in their mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers (211). People need to know that when you experience it firsthand, it isn’t so easy to hate the person who mistreats you, as we think it is as outsiders (254). We believe that we would walk away without a second thought if a person mistreated us, but that just isn’t the case. There is no way a summary of “It Ends With Us” can do justice to the way Colleen Hoover conveys Lily Bloom's emotional turmoil, and the complexity of her love interest. This summary can’t explain how much pain and uncertainty Lily Bloom faces in the book, but in the interest of making a book blog, here it is: When Lily Bloom and Ryle...

               It was a Monday. I had ELA next period and had forgotten to bring a book to school, so at the end of lunch period I ended up in the library. Just like Ok, I have two minutes, grab a book and go . I saw a familiar name, but with a title of a book I’ve never read, so I grabbed the book and got going. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusherman . Forty-five minutes later, after reading the first sixty pages of the book, the words that came out of my mouth were, “This book sucks''. And following up with that, “It makes no sense. Why does it have to jump from scene to scene every two minutes! Like is this whatever boat pirate ship thingy the character is on half the time even real?”. The way the book was written, half of the time the character was on a pirate ship, but in modern times. Modern being the characters on the ship, the boat itself was a classic old time pirate ship. However, this ship followed none of the natural laws of the real ...