Maximum Ride & House of Night

Recently I have been reading:

1. Maximum Ride series (4 books, starts with The Angel Experiment). These books are extremely fast-paced. The very beginning there is a fight and a kidnapping and the characters (who have avian DNA, so they have hollow bones and wings) go to save their little ’sister’. Very, very good. I have read 3 of the books so far.

2. House of Night series (Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed). Zoey Redbird lives in a world where vampires and humans co-exist. Zoey gets Marked, meaning she is a vampire and must immediately attend The House of Night, or else she will die. Zoey not only has to cope with a new life, new school, new friends, etc., but she is also the most powerful fledgling (not yet a vamp) in vampire history. Makes for an awesome read, with the conbined talents of a mother and a daughter, who co-write these novels.

For Maximum Ride, http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Maximum-Ride/James-Patterson/e/9780446617796/?itm=4

For Marked, http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Marked/P-C-Cast/e/9780312360269/?itm=2

The Devouring

The Devouring by Simon Holt.

I finished it two seconds ago and have to write about it. This book is the scariest book I have ever read! Actually, I’ve never been scared while reading a book, but I just don’t get scared whether it be a supposedly ’scary’ movie or a supposedly ’scary’ story or whatever.

The Devouring is about a freshman in high school named Reggie. She works at a bookstore, and there she finds an old book called The Devouring. It’s hand-written and looks creepy, so Reggie borrows it for herself. The book is a journal written by this crazy woman who writes about things called Vours. On Sorry Night, December 22, you have to shut off all heat so the Vours don’t find you. And don’t be scared, because fear attracts the Vours. If they find you, they will steal your soul and live inside your body.

Reggie and her best friend Aaron don’t believe it’s real (but it definately is, as you’ll find out) so they tempt fate and try to call the Vours by doing the things they are most afraid of. Nothing bad happens to them… But Reggie’s younger brother Henry is taken over by a Vour.

This book is so chilling, and written so much better than I had expected. I definately recommend it!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316035734/ref=cm_cr_error