This book is so enjoyable and is a start to one of my most favorite series ever! This book includes thrilling scenes, funny characters, mysterious behaviors, and lots of more things that make this a great book! I would not only recommend mystery or thriller lovers to read this book, but also people who enjoy other genres of books, because the plot and the way the book progresses make it so interesting!
After an unfortunate event causing Annabeth Chase and the Goddess of the moon, Artemis, to get captured by Kronos’s army, a prophecy is issued and Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, Thalia Grace, Bianca di Angelo, and Zoe Nightshade must go on a quest to save Artemis and Annabeth. Luke is beginning to gather more monsters and demigods for the war. The five demigods must make it across the States to California where Annabeth and Artemis are while being chased by Kronos’s minions. As if the quest wasn’t hard enough, the prophecy states that two of the five demigods won’t survive.
Amelia Unabridged is a fiction novel by Ashley Schumacher. Weighed down by grief, a surprise package takes Amelia Griffen to a bookstore in Michigan. Amelia finds her future changing as she discovers who she is, and, just maybe, falls in love along the way. This book is beautifully written and is one of those stories that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. My rating says 5 stars because there’s no option for 500- I loved everything about it.
Big Bad Ironclad! is part of the series called Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale. This book is about the race between the North and the South during the US Civil War to build bigger and better ironclad warships. The North tries to sabotage the ships of the South, failing and instead indirectly helping them get ideas about how to improve their ships. The South first builds the Viriginia, a giant Ironclad, so the North builds the Monitor, which is smaller but faster.
The Hate U Give is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that tackles issues of racism, police brutality, and activism. Told from the perspective of 16-year-old Starr Carter, who witnesses the shooting of her childhood friend Khalil by a police officer, the book explores racism and injustice in America. Starr must navigate two vastly different worlds - the poor, predominantly Black neighborhood where she lives, and the fancy suburban prep school she attends.
At a young age, Effe Sayre always had nightmares of the cruel Fairy King from her favorite book Angharad. Now as an aspiring architect, she gets the opportunity to redesign the manor of the book’s author, Myrddin. As she gets to the manor she meets a stodgy young literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud. The two rivals piece together clues about Myrddin’s legacy and find something truly dark and unexpected.
Life of Pi is a rollercoaster of a book that details the story of a young boy Pi who becomes stranded after his ship sinks into the Pacific Ocean. With no company but zoo animals, Pi must find a way to survive all the obstacles the ocean throws him & must find faith in what may seem like a completely hopeless circumstance.
Working her way up in the Hollywood film industry after World War II, Clara’s predictable life takes a turn when she discovers the unthinkable: the studios biggest star dead in the film vault. And along with this bad news, her refugee parents want to return to Germany after many years, uprooting Clara from Las Angeles. As Clara becomes more invested in the mystery, the secrets revealed are dangerous for her and her fellow colleague, and love interest, Gil. Will Clara crack the case and bring the justice that the victim deserves?
Warrior Girl Unearthed is an Indigenous historical fiction. It tells the story of Perry Firekeeper-Birch, who finds herself taking an interest in the reunification of native artifacts to their respective tribes. As the number of missing Indigenous women rises on her reservation, Perry hatches a plan to return the human remains of a warrior girl to her tribe.
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross is the sequel to Divine Rivals and continues the gripping tale of Iris Winnow and Roman Kitt as they navigate a world on the brink of war. In this installment, Iris and Roman are drawn deeper into a conflict between gods and mortals, where their personal destinies are entwined with the fate of their world.
