From the Shadows I Review: ***Weekly Blog Update*** 26th March 2013

My Ratings

1 star - Awful. I feel as though I have been tortured by an author who has had a bad day at the computer

2 stars - Pretty bad. I probably won't read the book again

3 stars- It's okay. It didn't capture me in the way I like but overall I enjoyed the book.

4 stars - Good. I enjoyed the book but it lacked something that would have made it special.

5 stars - Amazing. A rating I don't give often but when I do it means the book stands head and shoulders above all others for the same age group.

If I've given a book a .5 it means that my indecisiveness has won and I'm stuck between two ratings.

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Weekly Blog Update 26th March 2013

Currently Reading

In Deadly Dare , there's a new craze at Theo and Ricky's school. The rules are simple: write a dare, put it in the bag and take turns to pick one out. But on the night Ricky does his dare and enters the deserted warehouse, he disappears. What really happened to Ricky - and how much does new girl Angela know? Theo needs to find the answers before it's too late . . .

There's nothing unusual about getting emails from your dad . . . unless he died a few months ago. In Computer Ghost Jade asks Theo, Ricky and Angela to help her find out what's going on. Could the mysterious, desperate messages really be from a ghost? One thing's for sure. Whoever is behind them wants something badly - and they'll stop at nothing to get it . . .

Theo, Ricky and Angela have to become Lie Detectives to uncover the truth about top inventor, Darius Marriott, after he comes to give a talk at school and collapses. Who is out to get him, and why does their friend Bullet seem so involved? They're determined to get to the bottom of it all - but that could prove to be much more dangerous than they think . . .

Three gripping mysteries by bestselling Malorie Blackman.

The first rule of survival in the Underground: When you’re outside, keep your eyes on the skies. Ace Harpy Hunter Piper Madden is used to danger, but the death of her brother slams the brakes on her high-torque lifestyle and leaves her broken and confused.

On the run from the dictating Elder Corporation, she’s eventually found in the quiet undergound city of Ichton and asked to work for the Corp on contract to quell a new and frightening Harpy threat.

Enter the discovery of horrifying Corporation secrets, Harpy attacks, and a new friendship with the strange Asher, and Piper’s days become anything but boring.

Then, a chance encounter leaves Piper privy to a dangerous secret, ad as she and Asher team up in an effort to unravel the truth, the secrets they uncover beneath the ancient walls of the dead city will spark their world into a grand-scale war.