New Reviews

I realize that I need to catch up on this blog to where I am on paper. So, I will finish my video review of the Canon PowerShot ELPH 520. Product reviews of the Magic Rub Eraser, and  Prismacolor Colored Pencil Accessory Set. Along with  book reviews of  Heirs of the Prophecy, The Thirteenth Unicorn, Grimm end, and Aaron & Keja: Time Dragon. 

Book review of Siege of Providence

Siege of Providence by Michael Kaiser
Book price $2.99
3.5 Stars out of 5 Stars
This is a great read for people who are hardcore vampire lovers. As I'm not one of those people, I didn't enjoy it that much, however there was a twist that is quite interesting. there are apparently some people that view the vampires as gods. this is the type of  book for anyone who likes vampire horror/fantasy genre books
Read from June 28 to July 01, 2014
Date when Author sent me the Book 6/11/14
Length of book 63 pages
Where book can be found : Amazon 
About the author : 
Michael Kaiser is the Executive Director of 

Mike's stories & Scripts. This is his second book published under his company.

Book review of legon awakening

Legon Awakening: Book One in the Legon Series By Nicholas Taylor 

Book price: Free
3 Stars out of 5 Stars
This was a somewhat interesting read, it was an Eragon type book where the main character is a butcher's son, and has an epileptic sister, Legon also has an awesome friend, and a resourceful mentor. So anyways, this book follows the the hero's journey cliche very well, which is a cliche I like in books.The things I didn't like is that there is one part that describes a guy about to rape a girl, and then it retells it from the view of the girl, lucky something stopped that from happening, and they also went to a brothel to save some sex slave. There were some grammar errors, but they were somewhat funny, as there was a person who was eaten, then was totally ok in the next sentence that mentioned them. In the Legon universe dragons are magic users that have ascended, there are evil magical beans called Iumenta that are the elves greatest enemy, and an evil queen rules the known land.  
I would recommend the book to people that like the eragon book series, dragons, elves, magic, and/or fantasy adventure
Read from April 14 to June 19, 2014
Date when I got the book : February 27, 2013
Length of book 410 pages
Where book can be found : Amazon, Smashwords
About the author : Hi, I’m Nicholas Taylor, I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, possibly the greatest place on earth. I went to Dakota Ridge High and was in band– that’s right I was a band nerd and no, I don’t have any cool “one time at band camp” stories, so don’t ask.

I started writing in October of 2007. I was driving around with a friend and said “hey, I wonder if I can write a book.” So I thought I’d try and write outline and see what happens. Well, I finished the outline and I couldn’t just stop there. I needed to write chapter one and then that would be it. Do you see where this is going? Anyway, after chapter one was done, I had to finish the first book. But I wanted to get input as I went in order to write a better story. I decided to do a podcast of the first three chapters to see what people thought. After the first podcast, I decided that I wanted to continue to do it and more over, I wanted to get a larger listener base. It’s all been a wonderful journey from there.

Book review of divergent

Divergent by veronica roth

4 Stars out of 5 Stars
This is one well worded book. the small details are very alive in this book. It's  about a girl who lives in a dystopian society that changes factions. The term "faction before blood" is taken very seriously as she must choose to do what her new faction is doing, or save her family members despite risking becoming factionless, which is worse then death. Beatrice falls in love in love with one of her mentors. To be Divergent is considered bad because it means that you know too much as knowledge is power. She must face her fears        
I would recommend the book to people who like dystopian societies, romance and or action 
read from 4/23/14 to 5/14/14
Date when I checked out the book: 4/23/14
Length of book 487 pages
About the author: Veronica Roth is an American novelist and short story writer known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant

Book review of Life of Pi

Life of pi by yann martel

4 Stars out of 5 Stars
This was one interesting read. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. I've always wanted to read this book after I saw the Movie. It has a lot more detail than the movie, and was from 1st person view instead of  3rd person view. It's about an Indian boy that's stranded in the pacific ocean with a tiger from his family's zoo.  
I would recommend the book to people who like books about people that get stranded at sea.
read from 1/15/14 to 5/28/14
Date when  checked out the  book 1/15/14
Length of book : 319 pages
About the author : Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2001-2003 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

Book review of island of the blessed

Island of the blessed by Nancy Farmer

4 Stars out of 5 Stars
I would not have read this book, or book 2 of this series if my school library hadn't gotten them, as I originally thought that the sea of trolls wasn't part of a series. Anyways, I liked this book because they went to places that they hadn't gone before, and met new enemies that they had to battle. More about the mermaid is revealed, and what happened to her  
I would recommend the book to people who've read other books in this series, and people that like magic
Read from 2/13-3/7/14
Date when I checked out the book from my school library : 2/12/14
Length of book: 468 pages
Other Books I have reviewed from the Author :
The land of the silver apples
About the author : Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor Books: The Ear the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which, in 2002, also won the National Book Award. Other books include Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, the Trolls trilogy, three picture books for young children and an adult novel, A New Year's Tale. Nancy Farmer grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and lives with her family in Arizona.

Book review of The Story of a Lonely Man

The Story of a Lonely Man by  Tom Hooker
3 Stars out of 5 Stars
This is a some what interesting book about a man that lives as a hermit in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. He has a dog that's hilarious. The rest is what I don't like, he's profane, and is hiding from a surgery that can cure his headaches or turn him into a cabbage.    
I would recommend the book to people that like books about hermits
Read from 3/10-13/14
Date when I checked out the book from my school library: 3/10/14
Length of book : 82 pages
About the author : 
Tom Hooker is the author of The Story of a Lonely Man, and three other books that can be found right here on amazon. 

Book review of Wool

Wool - Part One by Hugh Howey

Book price free
3 Stars out of 5 Stars
This was a boring short Dystopian story. It's about this cop who was wearing a Oxygen suit, as he goes to a place without Oxygen. It breaks, and he dies. The story itself was somewhat confusing, and didn't flow that well for me.   
I would recommend the book to people that like short, confusing Dystopian stories 
read from 3/23-24/14
Date when  I got the book : 2/4/13
Length of book :49 pages
Where book can be found - Amazon
About the author : Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series. The WOOL OMNIBUS won Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award -- it has been as high as #1 in the Kindle store -- and 17 countries have picked up the work for translation. Look for WOOL in hardback in 2013 from Random House UK and keep your fingers crossed that Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian will do something exciting with the film rights!

Hugh lives in Jupiter, FL with his wife Amber and their dog Bella. When he isn't writing, he's reading or taking a photograph.

Book review of Sword Bearer

Sword Bearer (Return of the Dragons) by Teddy Jacobs

Book price :
3 Stars out of 5 Stars
This was a somewhat interesting read for me. It has to do with Anders who was learning magic, then something odd happens, and then he has to get away from the dark lord's minions while Anders is haunted in his dreams by the dark lord. Some parts are confusing, like there was this one person who could help him with a problem, or send him to someone who could help him better. After he tell the person his problem, he gets sent away without knowing the way to the better person that could help him. He also has a faerie sword, it held back information back, as Anders didn't ask her and some one died because of it. 
I would recommend the book to people that like books about magic
read from 2/23 to 3/22/14
Date when  I got the book: 1/30/13
Length of book : 238
Where book can be found : Amazon
About the author : Teddy Jacobs writes novels full of action and adventure from his home in New England. He's happy to have the opportunity to connect with readers all over the world through Amazon. Contact him at theodore AT teddyjacobs DOT com. Visit his website at www.teddyjacobs.com

Book review of Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

3 Stars out of 5 Stars
This was an interesting read about being stranded on a deserted island. It was exactly what I've heard about it, that it's about a bunch of boys on a deserted island that fall to anarchy. It's all down hill from the start from the way everyone treats each other. One of the oddest parts was when Simon met the Lord of the Flies. I gave this 3 stars because of the mild cursing.
I would recommend the book to  people who like books about island survival
Read from February 19 to March 06, 2014
Date when  I checked out  the book :2-18-14
Length of book : 202 pages
About the author : Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his 1954 novel Lord of the Flies. He was awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and was knighted by the Queen of England in 1988.