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Hailey's Summer Reading List
By: KidWatson Date: May 30, 2014, 8:30 pm
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I wanted to keep track of the books that I wanted to read this
summer and also enlist the help of you all to keep me on track.
Here is the list thus far:
The Entire Dust Land Series by Moira young
[list]
[li]The Entire Legend Series by Marie Lu[/li]
[/list]
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
After The End by Amy Plum
The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
[list]
[li]Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott[/li]
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Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
Death Sworn by Leah Cypess
Talon by Julie Kagawa
Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
Avalon by Mindee Arnett
Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen
Salvage by Alexandra Duncan
Half Bad by Sally Green
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
When I finish one I will either cross it off, (If I didn't like
it) or I'll put a bullet point on it and write a review about it
later in this topic.
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Re: Hailey's Summer Reading List
By: bibliotessaria Date: June 9, 2014, 11:15 am
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I just read Avalon. I'll be interested to know what you think!
-tessa
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The Legend Series by Marie Lu
By: KidWatson Date: June 11, 2014, 4:57 pm
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First of all, OUCH. I HATE endings, but this one had its own,
special kind of hurt.
I breezed through this trilogy pretty quickly,
especially the third book, Champion. The whole series is just
one roller coaster ride that I really didn't want to end. When I
read the summary on Goodreads, I was a little unsure, the whole,
"What was once the western United States" had me, I am a sucker
for futuristic story, but then of course, there is the forbidden
romance between June, the prodigy and Day the criminal. However,
I gave Marie Lu the benefit of the doubt and cracked that sucker
open. I was blown away. June is one serious kick-butt chick, and
her brother Metias sounds like a dream! The chapters alternated
between June's perspective and Day's, but I instantly preferred
June's. She was just the type of heroine that I admire, able to
take of herself, but didn't mind getting help from her family.
Even though I like June's chapters better, Day certainly wasn't
boring. His intensity for protecting his family, who think he is
dead, is very admirable, if a little redundant.
This story starts off with Day, a fifteen year-old
boy, also the Republic's most wanted criminal, checking in on
his family during a plague inspection. Only his older brother
John knows that he is alive, but to his mother and younger
brother, Eden, he has been dead for five years. Day is looking
in on his family when the Republic soldiers arrive to inspect
everyone for the plague, the process takes longer than usual and
when they walk out. the soldiers leave an "x" with a line
through it, something Day has never seen before. As it turns
out, his little brother is infected with a new plague and since
Day's family can barely afford food to eat, there is only one
way Eden is going to get better. If Day steals a vaccine from
the local hospital.
The story then focuses on June Iparis, also
fifteen, but that is where the similarities with Day end. June
is the Republic's prodigy, she received a perfect score on her
Trial, making her the first person ever to do so and is
currently a senior in Drake College, the top college in the
Republic. June's story starts with her in trouble. She took
matters into her own hands when class was boring her and decided
to climb a building off of the school's campus. Day isn't her
main goal, serving the Republic is, but given that Day is the
Republic's most wanted criminal, June feels that she has to be
prepared to take Day on. After being scolded by her Dean, June's
brother, Metias comes to get her, and he is angry. Metias is
June's only living relative, both of her parent's died in a car
accident when she was very little, in fact she barely misses
them, because in all of her memories, Metias is the one taking
care of her. On June's way home, we meet Thomas, the perfect
soldier. Thomas is Metias' best friend and is one of the
soldiers under his command. After dropping June off in their
apartment in Ruby Sector, the rich part of Los Angeles, Metias
expresses that he has something important that he needs to tell
June. He never gets to tell her.
A very promising beginning, and the rest of the
story is just as intriguing. There was never a dull moment this
series, and even when Day and June meet, their relationship
doesn't hinder the story, June doesn't becoming dependent on Day
to be as cool as she is, and Day doesn't need June to be as
awesome as he is. I would highly recommend this book to anyone
that is a fan of dystopias and politics and butt-kicking
independent, main characters.
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