Partials (***)

Partials is about a futuristic society in the US where a viris called RM has wiped out most of the human population. It takes place in Manhattin, (New York City), and focuses on the studies about a nurse studying the RM virus looking for a cure. She wants to bring in a Partial, a super-human robot the US made to win the war for them against China. She and a couple friends bring in a Partial spy from Manhattin into the hospital where the government allows her to have 5 reasearch days before the Partial in exterminated. Kira finds and unlikely friendship in a machine trained to kill humans, and finds out a few new things about herself. She decides she needs to set the Partial free, thinking he has all good intentions... Some things are sugar-coated...

This book is 472 pages long. I'll give it a three out of four stars.

PARTIALS
by, Dan Wells

The Age of Miracles (****)

The age of miracles is about Julia, a girl growing up in a suburb in California in America's near future when Earth's rotation begins to slow. She goes to school in a small public school and has one close friend, Hanna. Hanna moves to Utah with her family to live in a religious community to wait out the end of the world. Julia is left friendless and lonely. The birds begin dropping dead out of the sky, it gets to the point where teams are established to clean up dead birds from the roads and public areas. Then the magnetic field begins to weakon. Julia finds an unlikely companion in Seth Moreno, a boy in her grade, who's mother died of cancer. They help to throw salt water on the beached whales and wait for the spaceship to streak across the sky, which ended up exploding a few thousand miles from earth's surface. Then Julia's mom gets sick with an unidentified illness that the scientists call 'gravity sickness.' She finds her father is cheating on her old piano teacher, Sylvia. Life seems like too much. Then Seth gets the 'gravity sickness' after being exposed to radiation. The world's days lengthen into almost 40 hours. Plants can no longer survive without artifical sunlight. Most of the world lives on the old 24 hour schedule, but some, the rare, called 'real timers' go to sleep when the sun goes down and wake up when the sun rises. They are hated on, laws are suggested, and Sylvia happens to be one. Someone knocks down her tree, breaking her beloved piano, and tearing a hole in her roof, someone graffities her garage, another person tee-pees her front yard. Seth soon moves away to Mexico, where rumors say the radiation is less strong. Seth sends her one email. Julia never hears from him again. She can only hope and hope, but what good is that? She knows in her heart he's gone for good. This book is truly something, through the eyes of a growing-up girl in the heart of a crisis for the whole world.

This book is 288 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

THE AGE OF MIRACLES
by,
Karen Thompson Walker
Expected publication: June 26th 2012 by Random House

*This is an adult book!! (I know! My 1st one!!)

Grave Mercy (***1/2)

This book is a book about a seventeen-year-old assasin, trained at the hand of the Convent's sisters, who in in turn work for St. Mortain, the patron god of death.

This book is 549 pages long. I'll give it a 3.5 out of five stars.

GRAVE MERCY
by,
Robin Lafevers

Legend (****)

June is a high-ranking citizen in the Republic, a prodigy at 15. Day is the most wanted criminal in the Republic at 15. Day supposedly kills June's brother at a hospital while looking for plague cures. June makes it her mission to capture Day, when she finds him, he isn't all she thought he would be....

This book is 8 hours on discs. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

LEGEND
by, Marie Lu

The Scorpio Races (****)

Puck Conolly is the first girl to ride in the Scorpio Races. She is also the first rider to enter on a Island horse, Dove. All the other horses are capall uisce. Water horses. Vicious ones that come from the sea. Sean Kendrick loves the dangerous water horses. He is the fourth time race winner on his borrowed horse, Corr. They both want to win. Sean? He wants to buy his favorite water horse. Puck? She wants to keep her house and horse and make sure her brother, Gabe can stay on the Island.

This book is 404 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

THE SCORPIO RACES
by, Maggie Stiefvater

Hades (***)

Hades is the sequel to Halo, a book about Bethany, an angel whom is cast down form earth to tiny little venus cove to solve a problem including a troubling demon and some brain-washed people. Bethany is back again and this time she is kidnapped by Jake, the demon who she thought her brother, Gabriel had killed to make her his wife in the underworld. Can Bethany escape this time? Will her brother and sister come to save her? Read the book to find out.
This book is 424 pages long. I'll give it three out of four stars (***). *Recommended for 7th grade & up as there is mature content*

HADES
by, Alexandra Adornetto

Shimmer (***)

Shimmer is the second book in the Riley Bloom serious, the first book, Radiance is about how Riley dies in a car crash with her parents and he dog, Buttercup. She is appointed the job of Soul Catcher, to catch and lead wandering or lost souls over the bridge into Here & Now. Now she is on vacation with her dog when she meets Rebecca, a sweet girl who died in a slave revolt on her father's plantation. But Rebecca is not as sweet as she seems and she soon drags Riley, Bodhi, and Buttercup into her world of nightmares and terrible memories. In her own little world she captured all of the slave's souls and kept them trapped in their worst memories, can Riley save Rebecca and her friends or will she have to leave them there inside their worst nightmares-or worse, will she be caught up in them too? Read the book to find out.

This book is 196 pages long. I'll give this book three out of four stars (***.)

SHIMMER
by, Alyson Noel