What My summer reading posts will be like.

This is going to be a quick guide to what my posts will be like. So people will know what is talking about what.

1. The Blurb, if any.
2. I will read the first few chapters and then post about my first impressions.
3. I will edit the post and put in a sort of plot summary.
4. I will write what I did and didn't like about the book.

And there is the guide to my 3 part blogs. Enjoy your own reading.

Books I have enjoyed, The Edge Chronicles

There is this series I've been reading called The Edge Chronicles. Below is a video outlining the basic plot line of the series.

Books I have enjoyed, Beyond the Deepwoods

This book was the first book in the Edge Chronicles. It tells the story of a human who lived in a large forest with wood trolls. The name of the forest is Deepwoods, hence the name of the book. It starts out with how Twig is excluded by the other trolls because he was small, skinny, and didn't fit in. Then his "parents" send him off to his "aunt and uncle" (everything is quoted because they aren't really his relatives). In order to not get lost in the Deepwoods, everyone follows a well beat path. While twig was walking down the path, he got to absorbed in the beauty and got lost. Then he helped a bunch of sky pirates (the name for people who deliver supplies in large ships built around big buoyant rocks. They also were like pirates and raided) find their flight rock. They took him in and then he fell off the ship and couldn't be found. After wandering around he fell into a colony of honey goblins. After a large conflict about stealing honey. The goblins accuse Twig of killing their mother who made the honey. Twig manages to escape by tunnels to the surface. He then gets captured by a little trog who keeps him  as a pet. Then one day in a coming of age ceremony, she has to drink from a big jug of special tree sap. After doing this she becomes bald, fat, and savage like all the other female trogs. She no longer recognized Twig as a pet and yet again he has to escape. As he blundered through the Mire (a big wasteland) he comes across a big caterbird cocoon. When it hatches, since Twig was there, it said it was now its sworn duty to protect him in times of danger. Then it flies away. He crosses the Mire and goes through the city that juts out on The Edge (the entire world is this huge rock that starts up high on the spring of life and goes out. If you fall off the edge you just fall and fall until you die of starvation or get eaten by these giant moths that fly around the edge. He then gets pulled off the edge by an evil shape changer called The Gloamglozer that had led him all the way to the edge. Then the Caterbird comes and saves him and takes him to his father's sky pirate ship the one that he was taken aboard in the beginning.

Anyway. I liked this book because it was very fantastical. Not only that, but it went into very precise details but it didn't overdo it. I would recommend this book.

Books I have enjoyed, Redwall

First thing I will do is to clarify why I'm doing the same blog post twice. The truth is, I'm not. The series is named Redwall and so is the first book. The whole plot is that an army of rats comes to Redwall abbey and demands to take over. The abbey, being an abbey, refuses to be turned into a castle of slavery (one of the main things that would happen during the takeover) and begins a war on them. Now a long time ago, a mouse named Martin had come to the abbey, and left his sword and shield in case the abbey was in any need of warfare help. But the problem was that they were hidden so no evil creatures could steal them. The basic plot-line is that Matthias and his old friend Methuselah (both mice) both set off to find the sword and shield. But eventually Matthias has to leave the abbey to find the sword. Meanwhile the abbey is waging a war. Below is a movie of people saying what they like about it.

Books I have enjoyed, Hush Hush

Hush Hush is written by Becca Fitzpatrick. The book is about a girl named Nora. A new kid named Patch transfers to her school and becomes her biology partner. At first all was well, but then Patch starts to be really creepy. What Nora doesn't know is that Patch is a- Well, I won't spoil the book. If you liked it, check out the rest of the series, Crescendo, Tempest and then Torment. Here is a book trailer of the book I made.

Hush Hush themes and messages

Hush Hush was a really intense book once it got going. And that somehow makes it hard to find themes and messages. But maybe I'll surprise myself and write more than I expected. Anyway, here they are.

1. Always follow love, even if it seems like it will go down a bad path. Nora felt attracted to Patch, and she didn't like the attraction. However, later in the book, by letting herself feel this, she developed a strong bond with Patch which helped her out of some sticky situations.

2. Things are unpredictable. Patch. Nora thought he was some creepy dude who put on a ski mask and tried to kill her. While at the end of the book, he saved her life, and wasn't so creepy when he became her guardian angel. And for the ski mask, he was Jules, totally unsuspected. And Nora thought she would die when she threw herself off the rafters, turns out she didn't.

3. Control your fear. All sorts of bad things happen when Nora got scared. Jules was able to manipulate it and make her feel trapped. Of course, when she overcame it, she escaped. Also, Patch controlled her fear sometimes, which once again got her into awkward situations.

4. And finally, there's got to be some sort of message relating to the falling angels. Something like don't succumb to temptation. Or some other moral that has a biblely feel to it. I can't really think of it right now.

Hush Hush finished

  

       Finally, I finished Hush Hush at 391 pages. It was only at page 250 that it revealed that Patch was an angel due to the telltale sign of Patch being able to plant words and images into Nora's, the main character, mind. Two people, Eliott and Jules, from another school transfer to Nora's school. It turns out that Eliott was one of the questioned in a murder investigation. Nora finds an article with the questioning in it and takes it home. Then the Ski Mask dude breaks in, ransacks Nora's room, and scares Nora out of the room when she comes up. Then after the police arrive, the room was all clean. Then Eliott breaks into Nora's school with her friend Vee, to play hide and seek. He cuts the power and ties Vee up. Meanwhile, Patch's angel girlfriend is trying to kill Nora because she is "stealing my boy." and because she is a vital part in the ritual to make Patch a human, which Dabria, Patch's girlfriend, does not want. Nora finds Patch and they both go off to find Vee who supposedly was camping with Eliott and Jules. Then they get stranded at a hotel where Patch spills the beans. He reveals that in order to become a guardian angel, he must save a humans life. Then they get a call from Vee, and go to the school to rescue her. She finds Eliott dead, as explained by Jules that he had too much evidence, and gets captured by Jules. Jules reveals that he is part angel and is related to Patch and begins to manipulate Nora's fear. Then Nora escapes onto the rafters and somehow sacrifices herself to kill Jules but was brought back to life by Patch. Then Patch becomes a guardian angel by saving Nora as she threw herself from the gym rafters.
        It was all very confusing, I plan on reading it again when I have time so I can understand everything. I really liked it. Even though it started off slow, once it got going, it shot off like a rocket. Next blog will be about messages and themes.