Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Eragon

Eragon was a boy who found a strange stone in a mountain range called The Spine. He took it home and kept it after trying to sell it to the butcher, Sloan, to get money for his family. Sloan would not buy it because he hated The Spine. He was not a very nice man. Eragon goes home to his cousin Roran and uncle Garrow, with the stone and life is normal for the next few weeks. Roran left to work at Therins Ford. Eragon and his uncle were alone. Five strange beings enter Cavahall. They were called Ra'zak. They were looking for a stone of the same description. During that time, in the middle of the night the stone wobbles and out stumbled a dragon. He called the dragon Saphira. She quickly grew from being the size of a cat to the size of a small house. The Ra'zak found out that the stone belonged to Eragon and Garrow. So they came to their house and burnt it down trying to find out where the egg was. Garrow was killed in the struggle. Eragon, Saphira and Brom the Story Teller who turned out to be another dragon rider whose dragon was killed while fighting Galbatorix, evil king of the empire of Alagaesia. They travel across Alagaesia but Brom was killed in a struggle against the Ra'zak while trying to rescue the elf Arya who was poisoned by the shade Durza , with the help of Murtagh a human who they met on the way. They manage to the Varden, one of the only known place with the cure to the poison, and in time for the battle of Farthen dure in which Eragon manages to kill Durza and gets injured in the battle, and healed by the mourning sage, who tells him to complete his training in Du Weldenvarden, the forest of the elves.

This book was written by Christopher Paolini, I give it a rating of 9.99999999999999 out of 10.

The Detachable Boy With One Loose Foot

James Johnson was detachable. A Crime Lord guy saw him get hit by a truck in the distance, he saw him come back together again. He got mixed up with him and his best friend Crystal and he kidnapped Cystal instead. James with another friend Ravi went to the USA and found the Crime Bosses secret lair and rescued Cystal as well as thousands of detachable people. They destroyed the Crime Lords secret base and went back home.
This was a humourous book written by Scot Gardener. Eight out of ten for people who like books.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Cherub, Brigands M.C

This book is about a boy called Dante who's family except his baby sister was killed by the Fuhrer, leader of the biker gang that his dad was part of before he was killed.
Dante was forced to come to cherub because the Fuhrer was sure to kill him without a completely new identity.

Three years later Dante goes on a mission to put the Fuhrer behind bars for weapons smuggling
and murder with agents James Adams and Lauren Adams as well as three undercover cops and two mission controllers, Jake McAffe and Chloe.
However some local police officers come and mess up the opperation, three months of hard work down the drain so they have to pack up, Dante very upset, and go back to campus.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Cherub, The Sleep Walker

An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 dead. police suspect terrorism but there getting no were.
Then a boy phones the break through hot line, blaming his father for explosion. It might be a break through but the boy has had a history emotional problem so Cherub agents Jake Parker and Lauren Adams are sent to investigate with ex Chairman Dr. McAferty. they make friends with the boy, Fahim, and tell him why they were there.
It turns out that Fahim's father, Hassam Bin Hassam, had sold cheap aeroplane parts for the normal price to make lots of money quickly and was shot dead in a shoot off with the police, so Fahim tries to enter Cherub and fails so he is sent to live in a foster parent who lives close to Cherub campus.

Just Shocking

This is a funny book about a whole lot of funny stories.
There was a story about a game when you shake up 1 can out of six and you open all the caps till you get the one that explodes in your face. Another is about blowing up balloons for your sisters birthday party but whatever way you choose you still happen to die in a hillariously funny way. The one about you trying to create a giant monster truck and your friend makes up endless excuses not to.
It is a very funny and shocking book. Recommended for people who have a strange sense of houmour. It is an easy read.
Author: Andy Griffiiths

Rangers Aprentice, Halts Peril

This book is the 9th in the series. It's about a teenager called Will, his friend Horace and his former master Halt. It set in the medievil period in England. They continue from book 8 ''The King of Clonmell'', the false prophet Tennyson has escaped from Clonmel.
Will, Horace and Halt tracked Tennyson and followers to Picta. They found him in a cave. He was about to steal all the villages gold secretly but right under their noses. Will, Horace, Halt and a Chemist create some explosives with orange smoke and detonate it in the cave burying Tennyson and his followers. The villages spent the next five years digging out their treasure. Halt Will and Horace went back to Aruelean to live happily ever after...untill the next time.

Author: John Flanagon

Sunday, November 1, 2009

How to Draw Wizards Warriors Orcs and Elves

This book tells you how to draw fantasy beings such as Dwarf , Orcs, Warriors and enchanters. It has a section that tells you all about the tools you will need to bring your creations to life. Starting with the basic stick figure shape and change it to 2D shapes, then 3D shapes, then the basic outline, sketch it, ink it and the add colour to it to bring it to life. It is a great book that taught me how to do a successful sketch, a good book for experienced to inexperienced drawers and painters. I highly recommend it if you are learning to draw.

Author: Steve Beaumont
ISBN: 1-84139-580-8

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception

This book is about a child called Artemis Fowl, criminal mastermind. After many ordinary criminal exploits he turned to look at the magical kind of crime. After holding an elvish fairy (Captain Holly Short of the lower elements police) hostage in the basement and nearly triggering a cross species war he made a truce with the fairy folk. But after several adventures going around the continents Artemis had his mind wiped by the fairy folk as part of the Spiro affair deal (who had stolen a mixture of fairy technology Artemis had manufactured and called the cube.) and turned back to earliest criminal tendencies.
But now an old enemy is back and wants Artemis dead. Meanwhile Captain Holly Short, a previous friend and ally, is on the run, charged for murdering her own commander, someone who was like a father to her. Every single one of the of the fairy folk depends on Artemis, and Artemis depends on a lowly Dwarf.
Just before Artemis had his mind wiped he gave Mulch Digums, Dwarf fugitive and a helpful yet sometimes unwilling member of Artemis' adventures, a disk that had enough information to create a trigger to restore his and Butler's memory after the wipe. So Mulch must go and give Artemis the disk to restore his memory. But when he gets to Artemis's manor he finds out that Julius was infact not killed by Holly but murded by there old enemy Opal Kobai and that Artemis and Holly were captured by her. Opal tried to start a war between the humans and the faries. They stopped her, blew up her ship but she escaped. Fortunately she was tracked, caught and bought into custody. Artemus and Butler were sent home.

Author: Eoin Colfer

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Percy Jackson And The Battle Of The Labrinth



This book is about a boy called Percy Jackson, who is half Greek God and half human, a Demigod or, as he says it, a half blood. He attends a camp for half bloods, Camp Half Blood. Half bloods live in the real world, disguising themselves as humans and living with their human parents. In the earlier books he made enemies with the traitor Luke, who wanted to betray Camp Half Blood to the Titan Lord, Kronos. The last time he saw Luke was after Luke had had a nasty fall down a six metre cliff on Mount Tampalis, the place where the titans palace once stood and which Luke somehow survived , while Kronos slowly reformed, piece by piece.
During a camp exercise Percy and his friend Annabeth Chase found an entrance to the labyrinth, a huge maze shaped like a web and which they knew Luke had been exploring. To go into the labyrinth was almost sure death or worse but if Luke found a way to navigate it, he would have instant access to Camp Half Blood, which he wanted to destroy. He could with his armies of monsters and renegade half bloods. So Percy, with his friends Annabeth, Grover the Stayr and Tyson the Cyclops, (Percy's half brother) go down to stop Luke and the forces of Kronos.


The maze was designed to fool and trick people and it's riddled with traps and monsters. There is no place in the labyrinth that is safe for a mortal. En route to the center of the labyrinth they get stuck in Alcatraz, San Francisco. They were chased by the ruthless monster Kampe. In the prison they find the hundred handed one Briares, the last of his brothers, they try to escape from Kampe, who was actually a servant of Kronos, the one that kept the Cyclops and the Hundred handed ones locked up in Tutarus. They manage to escape, barely, and Percy loses his shield, hand made by Tyson. After they get out of Alcatraz Briares was ashamed that he couldn't help them Escape Alcatraz he walks away, shameful.


On the way they find Nico son of Hades, who blames Percy for the death of his sister who died at the hands of a defective prototype Talos, sacrificing herself to blow it up from the inside and saved the goddess Artemis. They call a truce to defeat the monster Geryon, but Nico gets injured and drained of energy from the combat, so he stays behind with the Immortal son of Ares, Eurytion who also gave them an Automaton spider to lead them to Hephaestus, the god of the forge and metal working who would know how to get to the workshop of Daedalus.

To get the directions to Daedalus' workshop, he wanted to know who has used his forged. He sent automotor to find out who was using his froge but they never returned. When he went himself, the things using his forge deserted it. He asked Percy and Annabeth to go and check it out themselves as Tyson and Grover had found an entrance to a cave that might hold the God of the Wild Pan. They saw strange figures working at the forge. Annabeth put on her cap of invisibility to find out what the creatures were. Percy meanwhile hid in a wagon of celeastial bronze. He was about to be discovered by Telekhines, sea demonds, that were working on the forge. He jumped out and escaped after exchanging a few blows. He ran to cross a bridge but was prevented from crossing by four Telekines. He engaged them in combat, they used lava, he used the power of the sea. This resulted in a massive explosion where he was thrown into the air. He blacks out.

He wakes up to be looked after by a Kalypso who nursed him to health and sent him on a magical raft back home.

Racheal Elizabeth Dare, Annabeth and Percy then head off and find one of the entrances to the Labarinth. They found their way to Daedulus workshop after they had found Grover Nico and Tyson. Daedulus went with them to Camp Half Blood with his hell hound, Mrs O'Leary. They arrived just in time for the battle of the Labyrinth. Which was gruesome and terriffying but all ended well with the heros triumphant.

This book is full of humour and morales. 9.5 out of ten for experienced readers.

This book was written by Rick Riordan.