Unforgotten is such a good book. I really liked how the book changed randomly, but still kept true to the character thoughts/feelings. She always wants whats best for people, so, in this book, she has to make some of the hardest decisions in her life. The ending is a complete twist from what I thought it would be. Reading a lot of books has (sort of) let me predict the ending of books closely. This ending completely threw me off. I really liked this book, and I think that if you have read the first book, you will like this one too.
Starters is about Callie, a teen in a future where all middle aged people are dead. Elders (or Enders) rent out young peoples bodies to do what they can't. There are rules, but many Enders don't follow them. Callie realizes that her chip is malfunctioning, so now she is waking up while the renter is supposed to be in control of her. Follow Callie in her adventure in this dystopian series.
Feed is about a community where people know nothing about their government. They have a small device, called a feed. It pretty much rules over life and blocks important skills like writing and reading. Titus visits the moon and finds someone who is fighting the feed. Titus immediately realizes that this is big, and stupid. He has to get to know her. She notices that Titus is the smartest of all of his friends. Can Titus help Violet?
The Lord of Opium is about Matt, the youngest drug lord. He owns Opium, the most healthy country. He has wildlife and good soil. This allows him to grow the Opium in mass amounts, but in the fields he has people who have microchips implanted in their heads working. They follow any order, and cannot do anything by themselves. People call them zombies. Matt's goal is to stop the opium production, and save the people with microchips.
The Ward is pretty interesting. It has a good plot. I loved how the story used water to create the disaster. The water is to filthy to drink, so it is rationed, not helping the disease that causes cancer. But during this Ren, the main character, tries to help find a cure to save her friend. I really liked the whole book, and I think that high school students would like this book.
Matched was a highly recommended book for me, but I thought it was okay. It is mostly about a girl exploring feelings. To me, that is pretty dull. I think if you're more into romance novels, you would like this book better. I also think that this book is more for girls. If it had more action, I might have liked it more. Matched probably won't appeal to boys. I think that if you like more girly books, you would like this book.
The Worlds We Make is about Kaelyn and her friends who are trying to get a vaccine to the CDC to mass produce it. Along the way, some close friends die, and Kaelyn is captured by a group of people who want the vaccine to get power. She manages to hide the vaccine in a stream before she gets captured. With her brother's inside help, the group manages to escape the compound. Kaelyn's group finds CDC and brings the vaccine with them, but Michael (the head of the group that wants power) is already there, ready to steal it. She works out an agreement between the two sides, and respects the dead who helped her on her journey.
The Dead is about Ed, a survivor of the disease that only effects people sixteen or older. He knows everything is done for when the news announces that they're pretty much dead. He and a few other kids manage to escape their private school. They get a few kids out of church. Most of the children are followers of the Lamb, a made up religion created by one of the kids. They manage it to a museum that has been taken over by a "general." The "general" is named Jordan, and helps them many times during the journey. Ed loses many friends, most of them like family, and learns that being the hero is the hardest thing of all.
Ashes is pretty good. It has a pretty reasonable plot, and is believable. I think that if the author had this book in a first person story (told by one person), it would be even better. I liked the way the author didn't make the hero and his/her friends the only people that were still normal, there were other normal people, and also some of the people that got seriously effected by the EMP (electromagnetic pulse). I think that zombie-horror-sci-fi people will love this book.
The Eye of Minds is about Michael, a gamer in the world of VirtNet. He always has a good time with people who he has never met. Then a problem occurs; it's one of the biggest terrorist threats to the VirtNet ever imagined. People can be trapped inside, and when they die in the VirtNet, they die for real. Can Michael and his friends save the VirtNet?
Fire & Flood is about Tella. Her brother is dying, and only she can save him. She gets an invitation to the Brimstone Bleeds, a game where the winner can get the Cure, something to cure all illness. She plays through the first two rounds, with help from some allies.
The Way We Fall is a book about a community who gets sick. The government cuts them off from all outside communication, but still delivers food. Can this island community survive? I think that this book had a good beginning that made you want to keep reading. It opened with a diary/notes to a friend that wasn't even there. This made me want to keep reading, and the fact that you want to know what happens to the community. I think that this book is very good, and that middle school readers would love it.
Frozen is sort of dull. It didn't feel believable. Most fantasy books that I read I can really feel myself inside the book, as if the event is really happening. But in this book, I felt that this is more like seeing a movie that you know is fake. I really didn't like the type of way the author(s) discriminated the "freaks." The freaks didn't have gray eyes. That wasn't very believable to me either. I really didn't like this book, but maybe you will.
No Safety in Numbers is about a group of kids who are stuck in a quarantined mall. They are trapped, and being hidden from the public while a rampant virus runs through the the mall, killing many. This book is very good. The whole plot of how a one of the kids finds a bomb that shuts down the mall is really good. I think that the book has a bit of a cliff-hanger at the end, and makes me wonder if there will be a second book.
47 is about 47, a slave on a plantation. He meets a runaway slave who calls himself Tall John. Tall John says he comes from somewhere where everyone is treated equally, and also has futuristic technology. 47 doesn't believe it, and is very stubborn to accepting Tall John's beliefs. Can 47 learn how to be free, and if he can, can he save his friends?
Eat, Brains, Love is about Jake and Amanda, two high-schoolers who turn into zombies at almost the same time. They travel across the country, growing closer together, and learning new tricks as a zombie. At the same time, a psychic, Cass is helping the government cover up their attacks and tracking them down. Can the two zombies find the cure?
Sick is about Brian and his friends trying to escape form their school. The school has been taken over by these zombie like sick kids. The sick kids try to eat people to get healthy cells to become cured. Brian is one of the only survivors on campus, and he devising a plan with his friends who are trapped with him at school. They go looking for other friends that could have survived. They know that they can't punch a hole in the fence because the zombie-like sick kids would get out and infect whoever is left in the city. So they have to climb the fence to escape the school campus, but everything they do is not with out a price. They lose friends and gain some. In the end, they have to make some of the hardest decisions of their lives.