Vampire Diaries

The Awakening is the first of four novels in L.J. Smith’s popular Vampire Diaries series.  Written for the Young Adult  market.The Vampire Diaries were re-released by HarperTeen in 2007 as a result of the flurry of popularity that YA vampire genre novels have received since Stephenie Meyer’s huge success with the Twilight series. 

Twilight Saga is shares the same, story line as VD. The story line, is ruffly about a teenager who falls in love with two brother vampires
The brothers expose themselves to her. while she process's this the diary does the same thing. 
The book had some really hectic moments, and some really hart felt ones. You can really feel the emotions, who said vampires don't have souls!
  This diary is probably worth more than her life.

The book was amazing, great everything, well done 

L. J. Smith

To writing a very cool book!   

Vampire Diaries

The Awakening is the first of four novels in L.J. Smith’s popular Vampire Diaries series.  Written for the Young Adult  market.The Vampire Diaries were re-released by HarperTeen in 2007 as a result of the flurry of popularity that YA vampire genre novels have received since Stephenie Meyer’s huge success with the Twilight series. 

The book shares character names with twilight.

The books about a girl with a Diary, this diary is probably worth more than her life, mainly because she encountered 2 vampire brothers who she fell in love with, the Diary contains all the vampire secrets and it is very important that nobody may ever read it 

The book was amazing, great everything, well done 

L. J. Smith

To writing a very cool book!

Knife Edge By Malorie Blackman

Knife Edge is all about Jude Mcgregor Callum's brother being eaten up with bitterness after his brothers death at the hands of a cross. He decides to blame all the tragedies of his family on Perserphone Hadley "Sephy". He then finds out that Sephy has his brothers child and goes for a little visit, but finds himself in a standoff between him, Sephy and Minerva Sephy's sister another of the Hadleys. While on the other hand Sephy get's kicked out of the house for carrying a nought's child and defiying to have an abortion.She then later moves in Callum's mother, later on to find out that the father of her child didn't love her at all and that the baby was just to get back at her father. She then finds out that Jude is dating a girl named Cara Imega a cross woman who loved Jude until he assaulted her. Jude is then caught for the assaultion of the cross and his life hangs on a knife's edge but will Sephy........

Find out more when you read the book

The Hunger games

Hunger games is, a gladiator tournament for children under 18. A poor girl called Katneis Everdeen, has been chosen along side a boy peter to fight for her district and win, or die!
The reason this hunger games was made, because in the binning there wear 13 Districts, ruled by a ruthless psychopath, who is drunk with power. President Snow called this country Panama. All the Districts rebelled and Snow felt threatene, so he eliminated the whole of District 13, and created the hunger games.
The story ended like expected They won the games.
The book was so epic, and so will the movie.

Well done: StePhany king

The Last Invisible Boy

The last Invisible boy is just like the title. Its about a boy whose father dies and, He feels invisibly, and soon after terns invisible.
The only way to become visible again  is if he commits a bad deed. So he thinks becoming a rebellion is going to fix his problems. But instead it backfires really fast.

The book is intense, it covers allot of ground in-terms of emotions. You can feel the frustration and sadness, coming from most of the characters.
 Well done to:Evan Kuhlman  

Half a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Review by Uli Vuma

To sum this up in a quote..."If we don't end war, war will end us."-H. G. Wells

And that is all there is to it. This book is about a war between people, between nations, between living in silence and loving in silence. It centers around 3 main characters, Ugwu, Olanna and Kainene and there struggles during and after the Biafran War. We journey into the book and its setting with Ugwu, a man servant. His inquiring mind and general need to impress his Master, Odenigbo, is heart rending. It just roots the seed of sadness within you and you constantly wonder how he is doing when another character is in play. To please Odenigbo is Ugwu's one and only desire and sometimes Odenigbo is ignorant of this because of his fixation with his new girlfriend, Olanna. Their love is the rebellious kind. This is because her family, excluding her sister, are whole heartily against her relationship with the Professor. They fancy her with a chief, one that can give them high rank and riches beyond their dreams. Olanna is opposed to this, and she explains what she goes through throughout the book.

Kainene, who I believe doesn't sit right in the story line, is the comic relief. She is free spirited and is currently dating a white man. But nobody notices because they are all occupied with Olanna, her bigger and much beloved sister. She puts on a shield, one that hides her anger and sadness that her sister is afforded all the attention. This is probably why she started dating Richard, for the attention. But nothing is said in the book to this effect. For now she is roughing it out behind the scenes and waiting for her time of attention. And it comes.....

Fast forward 4 years and the arrival of babies, I won't say who's, and the abounding dangers of Biafra, has caused some of the characters to escape to a place called Nsukku. They land up impoverished and lodging with some refugees. They eventually run out of food and Kainene, wanting to be the hero, desperate for the love and attention she needed, decided to go look for food. But then she goes missing...

Books like these have to be digested slowly. They are quite intense, long running and enervate. But well worth finishing. This book reveals how harsh war is on the people that live in it. The emotions are out in the open, especially with characters like Ugwu and Kainene. Towards the climax, it can get really suspenseful, giving it a thriller-like feel. Chimamanda's writhing is amazing. How she managed to display those feelings in 540 pages escapes me. She writes as if she was there and that reels you in. This book is emotionally charging and if it wasn't for the lack of moisture in my tear ducts, I probably would've cried.

8 out of 10.

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Review By Uli Vuma

WARNING: SPOILERS BE HERE:

This book centers around a woman who murdered her own child. It is quite depressing and offers a lot of emotional grief. Basically, it is set in the bleak wake of the American Civil War. Sethe was a mother of four, had just killed her eldest daughter, was in the process of recovering from the loss of her mother in law, Baby Suggs, and was coming to grips with the fact that her old master, Mr. Garner, was fast on her heels, ready to X her out. Its really some edgy stuff. Anyway, on top of this already brimming list of dilemmas, her friend/lover, Paul D (Not Pauly), has come back in search for her love. And his arrival is what sets the book in motion.

It starts off ambiguously and ends off on the same note. The beginning starts somewhere after the War and you have absolutely no idea that lives have been lost the way they have. This monotonous mood simmers a little until we see flashbacks from Sethe. Then fireworks and quick and devastating jabs coming from the past. We see images of tombstones, old, dying ladies and lovers lost. These build up tension until Paul D comes and the entire story manages to fold out towards the end.

There is not much to tell without revealing key factors in the book so I will just mention how it made me feel. I had all sorts of knots in my stomach, not because I was disgusted but I was in utter stupefaction of this character. Her methods where something to be worried about, but her intentions where understandable. She genuinely wanted the happiness for her children that she battled to find in her whole lifetime. And that resonates with me. Sure, in the end, there was a tumultuous conclusion, but her mentality and what she wanted to achieve still sits there, even if it wasn't as naked as I'd wanted it to be.

Overall, I would say this book certainly exposed me to a lot. Some good, some bad, some heartbreaking. Mostly heartbreaking. I hope that I won't have to go to the lengths that Sethe went through for her children's well being. But by that same token, if push comes to shove, I hope to have the same courage that Sethe had and have the boldness to fall on my knees with grace like she did.

This book reveals desperate times and the characters within them that persevered. It also offers the opportunity for self introspection. You'll find yourself asking many questions, wondering if you would have thought the same things, done the same things, and felt the same. And then you will finally close that book, sit and ponder on whether you could ever live in a time like that and still love the way that Sethe loved.

Good Read. Pick it up.