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What are you reading this month?

False Memory by Dan Krokos. Teenagers raised to be weapons, without their knowledge, who are they? Clones or originals? Good storyline, it held my interest. I'm looking forward to what happens next.

Brian Falkner The Assault. Elite group of teens in the military, dedicated to fighting the aliens who had overtaken earth. This elite unit undergoes intense training and even physical surgery to appear like the aliens in order to go on covert ops missions behind alien enemy lines. Someone within the unit may be siding with the aliens. What shocking experiment are the aliens attempting to keep secret? The secret is shocking! Great storyline, characters simple, the mission not simple.

Mariah wrote: "What are you reading this month?"

'Scarlet' by Marissa Meyer. I loved 'Cinder' and am loving this one so far.

Ilsa J. Bick wrote Shadows. 2nd book, I would say even more gory than the first book. A lot more happening and characters to follow in the 2nd book, multiple storylines though with a common theme. As long as you can stomach the horror, its a great story and the ending will surprise you. My response was, "what?!?!?" Since so many characters didn't survive, it will be interesting to see what happens in the 3rd book or did they?

Nancy Kress wrote Flash Point. Another end of the economy book, 2nd or 3rd one I have read recently. This time they call it the collaspe, which makes sense. The storyline two teen girls, their parents dead so being raised by their grandmother, who is fatally ill. Oldest teen, Amy ends up on a reality TV show. Several characters use the F word, so a bit harder than standard YA fare.

Margaret Peterson Haddix wrote Game Changer. Great story for sport minded girls, especially if they live to play softball. Basically the storyline is what perspective on life do teens have. What if your Plan A changes? What are you going to do now? Especially if you are stuck in another world different from the real world and how in the world do you get back to the real world!?!?!?

Kevin wrote: "False Memory by Dan Krokos. Teenagers raised to be weapons, without their knowledge, who are they? Clones or originals? Good storyline, it held my interest. I'm looking forward to what happens n..."

I just recently put this on my to-read. I always find it interesting when authors do POV's of the opposite gender. I'm curious to see how he pulls that off!

Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
If you are a teen who is not in sports, popular or specifically doing something to stand out then you probably will go unnoticed in school (maybe in life as well). Whether this was you or you can recall someone who fits the description (you may have to look in your yearbook since you probably will not remember this person).

This YA story is about a nobody who is raised to be a assassin. Since no one notices nobodies, they make good assassins. But what happens when your next assignment, sees you and looks you straight in the eyes? Something no person has ever done in your life. Well, it definitely shakes up your world and everything you been taught.

A great storyline which held my interest the whole time.

You've absolutely sold me on "Nobody"! Sounds amazing!

March

Samurai Awakening by Benjamin Martin

I have always loved watching martial arts movies as a kid growing up. I have read a few YA books about Americans in Japan or studying to be samurai's recently. I liked the storyline of the book, american teen as a exchange student in Japan. He doesn't set out to learn to be a samurai or learn martial arts, which disappointed me, it was more by accident. He does because of a ritual gone wrong and possessed/saved/brought back to life by a Japanese god existing within him. He instantly knows how to speak Japanese, which is a benefit in surviving school and making friends. But he has to learn how to be a samurai, martial arts and how to weld a sword. A good story about good vs evil, being a foreign exchange student, missing home, betrayal, rising to the challenge and enbracing one's destiny.