Gone

Author: Michael Grant
Saga:Gone (book 1/6)
Spnish:Olvidados

In one second everything changed. Everyone over the age of fifteen disappeared, leaving all the kids, toddlers and babies alone. Little by little some of the kids started developing powers and a huge barrier was all around them. They couldn’t see through it, they couldn’t touch it. With all the adults gone everything started to go into chaos, kids started stealing, everyone ate whatever they wanted, did whatever they wanted. Some of the oldest kids unconsciously started to step up and try to put some order; most of the kids with powers were feared.

Sam Temple a fourteen-year-old boy with the power to shoot deadly light from his hands was put in charge ever though he never wanted to be a leader. He got help from a Honduran boy named Edilio and a girl who everyone called Astrid the Genius. But when one day the kids from Coats Academy, a school for troublemakers, come down to Perdido Beach, the whole situation turns into a war that kids all alone will have to deal with the evil inside of a mine shaft where no one knows if they are going to survive. The story follows Sam, Astrid, Edilio, Quinn, Diana, Caine, Lana and Albert and how they fight to survive this bubble they call now The FAYZ.

DELIRIUM

Autore: Lauren Oliver

Saga: Delirium (1/3 Books)

Spanish: Delirium
In the future the love will be classified as a mental illness that has the power of disturb people, it will be because love make the people look the things with a difference point of view, it will not let us think or act in a rational way, then the humanity will has find a cure for a illness call "love".
After several research and investigations by the Scientists, they find the cure which it is based in a surgery cutting from the brain a small part that has in it the human feelings.
Based on the results the Government take the decision to make the surgery to every citizen when they reach the 18 years old. With this procedure everybody will has a happy live without any pain or sadness, at the same time the Government assign to the citizen a job and a person who will live, in this way the live of every citizen is planned.
Lena Holoway is waiting as everybody to reach the 18 years old to be part of the process, get a job a person who will live with her and the love must be eliminated from his brain, but the live is unpredictable and Lena will find it soon.

NOTHING
Author: Jenne Teller
Saga: unique book
Spanish: Nada

Nothing is book published for first time in Denmark in the year 2000, the book created a lot of noise in countries like France, German and Norway because a lot of teachers asked to their students to buy the book as an obligatory lecture, but the parents of the students weren't agree with it because of the context of the book. This behavior make that the book got fame and in other countries the people start to buy it, the popularity of the book grew. The book is about a person named Pier who find that nothing it's important, then nothing deserve his attention. Pier said it in front of his classmates and then he took the decision to climb a tree and stay in it for a long period. Every time his classmates go near the tree he shout them that everything they made didn't have a meaning and they must stop to do it, as a reaction his classmates took the decision to show him that he is wrong and the classmates start to collect the things that are important for them and they put all of them together creating a mountain that they called the mountain of meaning.

My opinion, It is a book with a great message and it deserve to be read not only one time. I really enjoyed to read it, it make me think about the importance of the things I make every day. For me it is impressive how a small book can give a strong message. It gave me a lesson for my live.

An Abundance of Katherines
Author:John Green

Saga: Unique Book

Spanish: El teorema Katherine

The book is about Kolin a prodigy boy who all the time has the pressure of his parents because they remember him that he has a great brain and he must take advantage of it. even though he is a prodigy boy he is not a genius, to be a genius he must had invented something.
Other curious thing it is that Kolin only has girlfriends with the name of Katherine and everyone left him after some time. In one occasion when one of his girlfriend the number19 broke him, he felt into a high depression until one of his friend take him to a retirement where the live of Kolin suffered a change. In the retirement Kolin had the great idea of create a formula to discover how a relationship can works. The creation of the formula also make him a genius.

My opinion, This is my first book written by John Gene and it looks for my very innovating, the way he mix the science with the literature and the way he wrote make me easy to read, but I feel he fail to give a better structure to the story.

   

Silver Bullet

Author: Stephen King
Saga: unique book
Spanish: No

This novelette takes us through the twelve full moons of the year.
With each full moon comes a murder and the only one that seems to notice is a disabled boy named Marty whose best friend was murdered by the beast that is hunting the small town.
Due to the canceled four of July fireworks Marty's uncle gave him as a present a box of firecrackers, so that night he decided to try them out, so he snuck out of the house and lit a few of them, Marty didn't know he was being watched.
The beast attacked him but Marty was quick enough to pull out a firecracker and lit it up to defend himself. It worked out perfectly since he hit it in the left eye wounding it severely.
Thanks to this a few months later, on Halloween's night, Marty finds out who the beast is.

Encantamiento de luna

Author: Javier Ruescas
Saga: Cuentos de Bereth Book 1/3
Spanish: Original


Duna Azuladea always has the dream to travel around the continent and know all his secrets. Suddenly one day her live as a farmer has a complete change when she was called to work in the royal palace as a maiden. During that days working as a maiden she met a brave prince named Adharel who has an arrogant brother named Dimitri, since the begging she felt a huge attraction for the price Adharel, but she knows he is unreachable for her.
Nevertheless during that times the Bereth kingdom had a war threaten and the clock is running to try to stop the war, they must fight against the forget and ancestry magic and find from where the Dragon of the forrest come from. Will Duna be ready to let everything to fight with her Destiny ?

Bereth Stories is a tribute for the traditional maiden stories, but at the same time is a complete new story because the magic of this trilogy starts just in the moment we think we know what will happen, suddenly everything take a different way. Its is a very different adventure from the ones we use to read.

ALIANZAS
Autor: Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual
Saga: Cuentos de la luna llena 1/3
Spanish:Original 

The prologue of the story was different from the typical, it starts out of the principal plot, but at the same time it gave us a clear idea of what will be the story of the trilogy.
Between many kingdoms we will find the Lothaire kingdom where the fairies live with her queen Mab which is a evil women, but she is not the evil person we use to find in this kind of stories, it makes more interesting the stories.
Cuentos de Luna llena is our of the common story about fairies the way the book was written make us to return to the real live and see that we can not fit the things with a magic wand. Every chapter has a different character, first we find Drake who is a troubadour that arrives to the Lothaire kingdom from his land Astrea, he arrives with a mysterious mission to be accomplish.
Lady Eirenne is a very different princess from the others, she likes to use different clothes, she practice the archery and she doesn't follow the royal protocol like the others princess, in fact her cousin Fay de Veridan has a complete different behavior she got compromised to get married with someone she doesn't know just to sustain the peace between the kingdoms.