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The Demon King

Pages 336-506 THE END

The section starts off with Han running to the old man Lucius’s house. Lucius is a blind old man who forgets everything from feeding himself to feeding his dog, whose name is Dog. Han has kind of taken over the responsibility of caring for his employer, who just happens to be Lucius. Lucius has always been the person that Han can tell everything so Han opens up and talks for hours about everything that is happening to and around him starting with the magical ghosts that are after him. Han just barely escaped from them by shredding his shirt, writing his name in the mud besides his clothes, and then jumping into the river in order to get as far away as possible. Han returns back to his burned house after a while only to dig up the buried amulet under the stable yard. When Han tries to sell the amulet, the amulet’s owner shows up looking for it and confronts Han inside the store. One thing leads to another, ending with Han’s dagger right under the High Wizard’s rib cage. As the warm blood was running down his hand, Han turned to sprint to the door, but as he got closer the wizard let loose a blast of fire. The fire seemed to surround Han only to disappear under the silver cuffs that were “attached” to his wrists. On his way home, there came a peculiar smell in the air. As Han got closer to home, he realized that it was his house on fire. The “bloody bluejackets” (bad people in the Queen’s Guard) had torched his house looking for the amulet. Han’s friends had already tried to save his mother and sister, but they failed. Now the flames were too high to do anything about it. Han was dragged a safe distance away before his friends let go of him, they still left two people to guard him against going back to the house. Han got really sick that night by drinking some bad water and ended up in the Southbridge Temple for a week being really surprised that Willow came from the hills to take care of him. After the week had gone by, Han returned to the house only to poke around the charred timbers for a while, retrieve his amulet, and head for the hills. Han moped around for a while contemplating taking up his bow, arrows, and knifes to go show the Bayar family what it felt like to be hunted just as he had been for his whole life.

This part of the book was so packed full of action that I couldn’t put the book down for the whole part. I really liked the part where it said, “It would serve them right if he gathered his quiver and bow and blades and climbed Grey Lady to the Bayar compound and showed them what it was like to be hunted. He was likely to fail at that, as well. There was no chance he’d get anywhere near his real enemies, the ones that pulled the strings. At most a few servants and bodyguards would die.” This part of the book showed me that Han really cared for his family. He cared so much that he would have gotten himself killed if he could kill his enemies. Han also shows good sense in abandoning the idea by reasoning that he would fail without ever accomplishing his goal. This has been a really good book. I would recommend it to anyone who likes books that include suspense with lots of action. I will rate the book a 9.9 out of 10 because it was so good that I could hardly put it down, but I don’t really like how it skipped around between two different characters that play huge roles in the book.

Pages 335 – 519

I am reading The Ask and The Answer.  Patrick Ness wrote it and I have finished the book.  President Prentiss, Davy, and Todd are now interrogating a person they think set a bomb.  The torture her and torture her until she lies about doing it so she won’t drown.  Then the man that tortured her grabs some pieces of metal and does something to her that makes her lose consciousness (I’m not sure what).  Then Davy and Todd find out they need to put the identifying bands on the President’s prisoners.  “Davy’s looking down at the bag too.  Even he’s shocked.  “Just the prisoners,” says the Mayor. “So we can fight against enemy infiltration on the inside.”  “You want us to-?” Davy looks up at his pa. “On the people?”  “Not people,” says the Mayor.  “Enemies of the state.”  I’m still looking at the bag.  The bag that we all know carries a bolting tool and a supply of numbered bands.”  Then it goes to Viola’s view, and then she discovered a woman that was banded who asks Viola to help her then passes out.

Then it gets really messed up and the President shoots his son Davy.  “Standing next to Davy, who falls to his knees, sending up to small clouds of dust as he hits the rubble.  “Pa?” he asks, his voice pleading, like a little kitten.”  Then Todd takes the President as his prisoner.  He is forced to allow him to command the army though because a huge Spackle army just showed up.  The weird thing is the President can’t wait to fight.

I am really surprised Prentiss killed Davy.  I thought he was going to shoot Todd, but then he shot Davy.  It baffles my mind that someone would kill their own son and then tell Todd that he was the son he always wanted.  The ending of this book has really made me want to read the next one due to the dramatic ending of it.  The Spackle army at the end really surprised me because every once in a while they would talk about how the Spackle had gone away and they were peaceful.

A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks, pages 211-end.

This section starts out with a couple of italicized chapter talking about Missy’s funeral, and more on how she died of head trauma which is very sad. They also talk about what happened after after her death. Mile’s and Jonah are going through some odd times. Jonah has some nightmares where Miles was in an accident just like his mom. Jonah tells Miles that he doesn’t like him looking at these papers of their mom, but when he asks if it was of Missy he said, “kind of”. Which is a little confusing. Sarah and Miles are also going through some troubles. You get to know a lot towards the end, it’s sort of crazy. I’m not entirely sure who is talking during the italicized chapters, so it is kind of confusing. In one of those chapters, it says, “Missy had died because of me; I couldn’t live with another needless tragedy.”Believe it or not, but Miles and Sarah didn’t end up together.

I think the theme of this book is still love. The ending is sort of a big twist you don’t really expect. It is also all around Missy and her death. You feel bad for all the characters. I really like the passage, “And I wanted the man who killed Missy to pay for what he did. You have no idea how much those thoughts consumed me. Part of me still wants to kill him. To do the same thing to his family that he did to mine. And now, I’m looking at the man who did it. And this man is putting the wrong flowers on my wife’s grave.” I think it says a lot, because it is just about Missy and how much her death effected peoples life. The beginning of this book was pretty terrible and slow. The ending however, got much better.

The 13th Reality

pg 297 -386

Sato returned to master George’s base in a big pile a blood and mush. When master George asked him what happened all Sato could say was that George needs to tie him up and then he will tell them whats going on. When master George asked him if he got the sample Sato replied that it was inside him and that they need to hurry before Mr. chu can control him.

Tick and his friends are still stuck in the strange town looking for the place that they are supposed to be at 5:00 and they cant find it they are starting to think that they are finally stumped and they want to give up but tick reminds his friends that Mr. Chu said that it was win or die, that was enough to make them keep trying. Tick figures out that they are supposed to catch a train to fourth City which is the name of Chu’s reality so they thought that would be a good guess on where to go. Well it turns out that they are wrong they werent supposed to be somewhere at 5 but the riddle was telling them a place to go. They town they were staying at was in the shape of a clock and they place that they were supposed to be at was at the 5 o’clock spot. So they get back on the train and head back to go to find the spot. On the way back to the town the train crashed. They don’t know how or why but they are now in the middle of a forest with Paul who has a broken arm.

Master George put Sato into a holding sell and was tending to him and asking questions when Mr. Chu took over his body and started talking to Master George. He starts asking master George questions and telling talking about how smart he is and how he will soon have a new apprentice and George gets mad and leaves him in the cell.

The theme for this section hast to be the way things are falling apart. Through out the book things are not going that well but the kids get through them alive and well. Now things are happening and the kids are getting hurt and might even die.

Sato said through a moan of pain. his eyes narrowed’ like a wolf on the hunt. “It’s…..inside me.”

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Pages 209-The End (308)

In this part of the book Mary is avoiding Travis. She is staying up on the third floor of the house looking out over the see of Unconsecrated. Every day the door downstairs is weakening with the persistence of the unconsecrated trying to enter their sanctuary. The consecrated break through the door and start to enter into the house. Travis gets up the stairs but is not able to get into the attic. Mary hurries down the latter and starts to swing at the unconsecrated with an ax while Travis tries to get up the latter. She pushes him the rest of the way up, and they push a trunk over the door in the floor. Harry shoots an arrow at the building attached to a rope and Travis ties a barrel to it and tells Mary to get in. Reluctantly she does and she is pulled over to safety. Travis tries to climb across the rope and makes it after he experiences some insane pain because of his leg. They stay in the tree house with the others for a couple weeks until it starts on fire. Travis volunteers to run through the field of unconsecrated and run to the fence to tie a rope so the others can slide to safety. as soon as he gets it tied Mary slides down and starts yelling at him. He tells her that he was bitten when they escaped the house and that he is about to change. After he changes the rest slide down and comfort her. They start back down the path looking for a new home following the tags. Finally they find one marked I. Mary decides she is going to exit the fence and look for the ocean. After she leaves the unconsecrated start to surround her. Her brother comes and fights them of. There is a giant cliff and below is water. She and her brother jump in to escape the unconsecrated and are swept away. When she wakes up her brother is gone and she is alone on the beach with the unconsecrated. A man soon comes and Chops the heads of of the unconsecrated to insure they are dead. When she comes to her senses she realizes she has found the ocean, and even it is surrounded by unconsecrated.

In this part of the book I think the theme of persistence shows itself. Even when everyone else gave up she kept looking for her dreams. She lost the love of her life and she kept going. I think that all of the pain she has experienced gives her the extra push to keep going to keep searching for something more.

“I slip into the water. Waves push me and I fight them to go deeper. Until my feet lift from the ground.” I love it when she says this because she has found what she was looking for, she never gave up. This shows that all her work all the pain and all the suffering she went through to get there paid off. She is such a strong person.

I loved this book. It introduced some very interesting ideas to me. I have always thought that the zombie apocalypse was stupid and that people shouldn’t waste their time with it. Even though I still do not believe there will ever be a zombie apocalypse this book opened my eyes to how scary it is.

Bang! by Sharon G. Flake

Pages 168-298

In this last part of the book, Kee-Lee and Mann end up getting home. Mann’s father makes him breakfast and asks him how his trip went and if he felt different, and Mann is curious why he is acting so strange;he had a weird feeling. Turns out that that feeling was right, because Mann’s father kicked him out again into the streets and Kee-Lee’s mom did the same to him. They ended up going to Kee-Lee’s aunt’s house, which ended up being a number house. A number house is where people come to buy good food that Kee-Lee’s aunt makes and sells and liquor she makes herself too. They make bids and it’s kind of like a lottery house. Kee-Lee have to pay to stay there, so they make runs for Kee-Lee’s aunt and eventually paint houses for money, but one job goes wrong. There’s a man and they paint his house, but he can’t pay, so Kee-Lee shoots at him and the guy shoots at Kee-Lee and they both end up dead. Mann ends up running for his life, because they all think Mann was the one who killed them both. Mann goes to the only place he can think, the stables where he used to ride Journey. Except for, no one is there anymore. So he makes it his own place and spends months there after he finds Journey and Maiden Lucy, two really sick horses, and he nurses them back together. Mann’s father ends up seeing him on the street and finding him at the stables later, where they eventually work together to nurse the horses back to health. Mann;s father wants to give up on them at first, but Mann says he won’t watch something else die because he’s seen too much death. After they nurse the horses back to health, they go home and Mann’s father is proud because Mann learned to take care of himself in some of the worst conditions and protect himself. He learned to be a man.

This book is very inspiring and touching to me. It’s major theme is just that you never, ever give up. Mann never gave up trying, even though many times he wanted to, he never gave up on his dreams or himself. He had faith in himself that he could get those horses back to health and he did with the little help from his dad.

MEASLE and the WRATHMONK 50-85 pages

Measle became a hero. He brought someone’s back to life. This man couldn’t move, could hardly speak, and hungry as a horse, but he could see and hear everything that goes on. That’s how he know Measle’s name– listening to Basil Trample bone. During the next hour and a half, Measle, Frank and Lady Grant brought the remaining four people back to life. The first was nearby, in a long street that led toward the forest. Measle led them to the spot where he’d seen the tableau of the little round bald man being chased by the angry mob. Ignoring the plastic pursuers and their placards, they went directly to the little man and fed him some chips of carrot, and the moments later he dropped his heavy and sat down in the middle of the road.

The theme of this novel is how this little man can make a person’s life different. That’s why they call him hero. Even though he doesn’t look much like a nice looking guy. Measle loves talking to a man who is older and taller than him. He seems like a brave man.

“Now, half an inch tall and standing in the shadow of the statue, he could read them quite clearly.” I picked this quote because it shows that even though he’s short he can still from far away, and he’s also smart. Measle had often tried to read things like small things from far away. He sometimes would get closer but he still tries to read from a inch yard away from him.

Measle is getting more a lot of experience being an orphan kid. He is a big adventurous little boy that knows what he’s doing. I like how Measle is not afraid of everything he sees and talk to. The author barely mention about his guardian in this book. Hopefully, Measle will change his looks.

In the book Just listen by Sarah Dessen I’m on page 200 and finished the book. Things have really srated to go uphill for Annabelle. At home, whitney is almost completely recovered from her anorexia, and she reconciles with the sister that revealed her eating disorder. Annabel begins to become friends with her old best friend after a long estrangement, and finally decides she needs to tell Owen why she left that one night. She finds him at the radio station where he does a show, and after a lot of persuading tells him what happened about when she got raped. He convinces her to testify in his upcoming trial. After testifying, things get much better for Annabel, and she is finally happy again.
I really enjoyed this book and I feel like the ending was perfect. This book has a lot of real life problems and drama and i feel as if many teenage girls can related to it. I also love the character Annabelle, she is such a strong and lovable person that went through a hard time but in the end it all worked out. My favorite quote of this entire book is “don’t think or judge, just listen” I really like it because that’s so true. So many people just judge and assume thigns when in reality there wrong. If people took the time to listen everything would be a lot better.

Right Behind You by Gail Giles

Pages 1-77

Part I, Alaska.

Right behind you is the story of Kip MacFarland and how one mistake he made as a child, ruined his entire adult life. At the age of nine, Kip was sentenced to live in a metal hospital in Anchorage for lighting a boy on fire out of jealousy. As soon as he lit the lighter, he lost all memory of what happened, and didn’t speak for four months. All throughout this section, Kip is living in the institution with a bunch of other boys who are completely insane. They wouldn’t let him out of the hospital until they were sure he wasn’t a danger to himself or others. When he was talking to his doctor, he said “Wile. E. Coyote.” He explained what he was saying by telling the doctor that when he set Bobby Clarke on fire, he thought he was be fine, just like in the cartoon when the bomb goes off and the coyote is fine; by the end of the section, he is getting released.

When I started reading this book, I liked the fact that part of the book was set in Alaska. I thought the whole story of such a young kid committing such a violent crime was really interesting and something that is completely possible. It really is scary to see the aftermath of a mistake you make when you’re young, and it teaches you that just because you’re young doesn’t mean there won’t be any consequences for your actions. I would recommend this book to anybody, it really is a story people of both genders and almost all ages would enjoy. Another thing I thought of when I was reading this was how parents really need to teach their kids the difference between reality and television, because I know that when I was younger, my mom taught be that the things I watched on TV weren’t real, and then I would talk to some of the other kids my age and they would believe a lot of the things they saw in cartoons. This story shows that being ignorant of things like that could be potentially dangerous.

Note: I wrote my reading blog on a different book because I could not find the book I was blogging about before.