Leviathan By: Scott Westerfeld

I mentioned a few weeks back that I’d be trying out some new authors that I haven’t read anything by yet.  This week: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. In this novel, the world is on the verge of war between the Darwinists and the Clankers.  In this alternate reality, world war one is fought between the Darwinists…

Echoing the Youth Experience

I found this advertisement by CCIS to be quite interesting and think that you should all check this out.  The target audience of this contest is youth between the ages of 12-30 and it ends on March 22nd (so you still have lots of time to submit!).  Check out what CCIS has to say about…

Mystery Novel: Introduction

I can honestly say that I’m a guy who loves reading. But when I go looking for books, I will only select one written by a handful of authors who I trust. My friends have always made fun of me for being paranoid. So naturally, I made a new years resolution to be less paranoid.…

Movie Review: The Book of Eli

When I saw the trailer for “The Book of Eli” the first thought that came across my mind was Fallout 3: The Movie.  I’m not trying to be funny, I literally thought that they were making a movie based in the “Fallout 3” universe.  After seeing Avatar, I’ve had enough of movies with cliché plots…

Epic Fail: Avatar

Speaking of Avatar… This sort of post is out of character for me, but i found it really funny and wanted to share this with everone.  This is a picture I found on failblog.org.  It’s called”the Avatar Plot Fail.”  Enjoy 🙂

Read This: Carter Finally Gets It

“Warning: This book contains lewd humor, underage drinking, illicit fantasizing and very bad decision-making”.  This is actually writing on the back of the book. I can not tell whether this is to attract readers or because this warning is mandatory. The novel follows Carter, a typical freshmen boy trying to get through the year.  This novel…

Love Stories

I am not reviewing a book called Love Stories; I am simply expressing my thoughts on the role of romance in the modern day youth novels. The way I see it, when we were young, the guys and the girls read the same amount.  But as we matured, so did the books we read.  Soon…

Read This: The Fade

My latest book review is of Chris Wooding’s The Fade.  This story takes place on the moon of some uninhabitable planet.  The people of that moon must live underground due to the fact that they would die a very painful death if they were to be caught on the surface when both their suns were…

Read This: Storm Thief

Storm Thief is a novel by author Chris Wooding.  The novel is set in the future on an island-city known as Orokos.  Orokos is constantly threatened by “probability storms” – random storms that warp reality and can make anything happen.  There is war on the island along with crime and cruelty.  The force of governance…