Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)

The whole country of Panem is in chaos after the Quarter Quelle. Now, all of the districts are at war with the capital and it does not seem to be ending anytime soon until someone wins.
                    

The rebels (the people fighting the capital) need a mockingjay; someone to look up too and to empower them. But the Mockingjay can only stand so many camera’s, make- up and death before she goes crazy from being on the sidelines.

Things are going as planned for the rebels in the physical fighting process, but everyday some sort of explosion happens (courtesy of the capital) and hundreds of people die.

But the alternative to death may even be worst 'cause if one gets kidnaped by the capital, the capital can destroy one's memories and put in other memories- which is worst then death, in the Mockingjay and her friends eyes.

Only one side can win- but at what cost will they go to win? How many lives will be lost?

Let the 76th Hunger Games begin, because that is what the uprising is becoming

May the odds be ever in your favor

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What on earth was the author doing when she wrote this book? She completely ruined everything she wrote in the first two books.

The author seemed to try to use characterization, but really she ruined the strength of the characters; they all seemed to have different personalities at the end of the book, and not in a good way.

I hated what she did to the protagonist and how the plot changed her. Everytime someone close to her died, she got stronger, but this time when someone close to her died, she became sad and depressing. It was so dumb because she never has had the personality to become depressing. She is a tough girl who has been through hell and back, you can't suddenly make her turn 180 degrees.

Then she ended a really well written love triangle in three pages! Seriously? Why in the universe did the author do something like that? She ruined a huge background storyline.

The theme of this book was also horrible. It basically is showing people if one does something wrong to you, you can do it back to them.

The only thing good about this book was the suspense and imagery. But you need a lot more than two strong literacy terms when the main ones are horrible.

2 out of 5 stars.

Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)

After the 74th Hunger Games, one of the most remarkable games ever, there is an uprising in District eight.

An uprising is when a district try's to fight against the Capital for forcing it to do things, like participate in the Hunger Games. One other district did this, District 13, which got destroyed by the capital, proving that the Capital has all the power.

Meanwhile, things get complicated for the victors (winners of the 74th Hunger Games) because now they have to prove to the president of the Capital that they are in love, which involves getting married, when they are not truly in love.

The Capital seems to be angry at the Districts because they are being even cruller to them as usual. The Peacekeeps (who try to prevent uprisings) are being forced to be cruel to the people who live in the districts or they will become Avox's (slaves to the Capital who get their tongs ripped out).

Every 25 years' of the Hunger Games a Quelf is held. A Quelf makes the Hunger Games have a twist to it. The 1st Quelf (25th anniversary of the Hunger Games) had it so a draw was held to see who the tributes were. The 2nd Quelf (the 50th anniversary of the Hunger Games) had twice as many Tributes. The 3nd Quelf is this year, and this twist may change everything about the Hunger Games forever.

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The first half of this book is so dumb and pointless! But then there is a major twisted in the plot and then it gets really good.

The ending is really confusing, I had to read the last 2 pages twice before I figured out what it means...Let’s just say, the last book is already loaded on my kindle and is ready to be read.

I really liked the last half of this book because I had no idea how it was going to end- the first one, you could figure out the ending after the second part- you could not for this one. I thought I knew how it would end, but I was wrong.

However, the first half was totally pointless! Nothing exciting happened! It had hardly anything to do with the last part of the novel. It seemed like the author was trying to add characterization, but failed.

The suspense it this novel was even better then it the first book, but the emotional setting was very week. Personally, I did not mind too much, but I can understand why someone would not like this book because of it.

It is a good thing the last half was so good, or else it would have been a bad book.

4.6 out of 5 stars.

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

The Hunger games are death sentence for all but one person. But why would the rich people care about how many useless, poor people die? They only care about watching 24 tributes- 12 boys, 12 girls, from 12 districts- fight `till one is standing.

District 12 has not won a hunger game for at least 30 years, so when Katniss` younger sister, Prim, get chosen, She automatically volunteers so her sister won`t die a violent death.

Katniss and her best friend Gale have been hunting animals for years and she is fairly good with a bow- and- arrow, but nothing like the boys and girls from the first few districts who have been training for the hunger games for years. Almost every year one of them wins.

If one wins the Hunger Games, they have money and fame forever. But most of all they will always have enough to eat, unlike most of the people in the higher- numbered districts.

And food and family is the one thing Katniss is willing to kill for.
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The concept of this book is extremely violent and atrocious. But because the plot was mostly about death, it was very suspenseful and concentrated a lot on plot, imagery and conflict.

I did not like the concept at all, but the conflict and characters held my attention so I got used to someone dying in almost every chapter. As soon as this happened, I could not turn my attention away from this book for more than one hour at a time.

The author also used imagery in a way that made this book so visual it was gross at times. This is going to be a weird but amazing movie when it comes out. There was only one way to see this book because the author gave so many details. Personally, I loved that about this book.

The characterization was fairly week, in my opinion throughout a lot of this book because of the plot. This seemed to add to the suspense because I could not guess most of the main events of this book because I did not know the characters. This also seemed to make it less sad when people died.

I am still kind of mad that the author killed off my favorite character. For warning to anyone who wants to read this book: Don`t get too attached to any characters, because most have to die to keep the plot rolling.

Even though the plot is full of expiry and the imagery puts it into context in a way that is very brutal, it will not make anyone throw up or anything. I am very squeamish, but even I was not 100% repulsed.

This book was an very good book, even though it was gross and the concept was about death because the suspense was so rich.

4.65 out of 5 stars

Swim The Fly (Don Calame)

It has been tradition for years' that Matt, Sean and Coop make a goal at the begging of summer that must be completed by the end of summer. This year, their goal is to see a real life naked girl.

Matt and his friends have been doing a summer swim team for as long as they can remember. This year, to impress a girl, Matt volunteered to swim the hardest stroke none on planet earth- the Butterfly.

There is a new girl on the swim team that Matt has a crush on. But things with her are not going well, thanks to the boy who has always won the 100- yard butterfly. It seems like the only way he can get her attention is by winning the race.

The only thing wrong with that is he can't do the butterfly- at all. he can't even do one lap- let alone four. But if he does not place, there is no chance his team can win. But he has the rest of the summer to practice, so what's the worst thing that can happen?
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This was probably as realistic someone could get while writing a fiction book.

The characters did not seem forced. Their personalities all worked together well. It was nice not reading a book with 3 friends who have opposite personalities. insted they all had similar personalities and interests.

However, this book seemed to only use characterization, plot and symbolism. I think it would have been better if the ending was not as predictable as it was. But even tought the author only used 3 literacy terms, he used them all so well that the book did not seem off balanced.

This book was one of the funniest things I have ever read. It definitely had its stupid parts that only teenaged boys will understand, but most of them had me laughing too. It was worth the read.

4 out of 5 stars.