Kelsey did not think that she would be working at a circus with Tiger’s. That was the last thing that she expected. But when the Tiger is bought and she is offered to go with him to India, she does not pass up the opportunity. Ren, the Tiger, and Kelsey have to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. She has to solve the curse as it is the only thing which will help Ren be kind of normal again.
Review
W.O.W. This book was absolutely amazing. I was captured by the story and could not put the book down. This was a love story more than an adventure story but the love was based around adventure. In the book the Tiger and Kelsey had a special bond because every 24 hours, Ren has 24 minutes to turn into this gorgeous man. “He’s like James Bond, Antonio Banderas, and Brad Pitt all rolled into one,” Kelsey thinks. Kelsey is absolutely taken with him but as the book progresses things change and throughout the book, you feel their emotions growing for each other. Ren is older than 300 years but he looks like he is 21 and Kelsey is about 18 I believe and so it is obvious she falls for him.
I would recommend people to read this book because it was soooo good. 🙂 I also think that it would make a really good movie because of the story line. Does anyone else out there agree with me????? Also, this book came out at the beginning of 2011 so it is Hot Off The Press!! So go to your local library and read it. I would even recommend getting it. Enjoy.
Opinion: A fast paced witty book about teens and their impressive hacking ability.
Summary
“Danny is a freelance IT specialistthat is, a hacker. He and his pal Omar are both skilled at parkour, or freerunning, a discipline designed to enable practitioners to travel between any two points regardless of obstacles. This is fortunate, because they’re off on an adventure that’s filled with obstacles, from locked doors to gangs of hostile pursuers. Together they follow a cryptic clue, find a missing map, figure out how to get to Timbuktu without buying a plane ticket, and join the life-and-death treasure hunt, exchanging wisecracks and solving the puzzle one step at a time.An exotic setting and gripping suspense, as well as an absorbing introduction to parkour, make this thriller a genuine page-turner.”
This was quite a good book and was not confusing as you might think it would be because it is about hacking. It can always be a little 50/50 with these books – them being too technical or not technical enough and silly. But this one fit in the middle perfectly! This book kept you turning pages because you wanted to know what happened and I just couldn’t put it down. I mean, I read this book in under 6 hours because it was that exciting. It was full of stuff constantly happening, and it just made you want to read more.
My one complaint was that the characters in the book were not really described well because you never got a physical description of them. I don’t always mind that because I can make up my own image in my head but having a basic idea of who they are and what they’re like can be nice. It had a lot of humor in it as the two hackers were teenagers (16 and the other one was in the later teens) and they were going on at each other but it was usually funny. So this was a really great books and I strongly suggest that you check this book out. It is worth reading and I really think that a movie should be made of this. It would be a box office hit.
What is Parkour?
I am sure that there are quite a few people who do not know what parkour is (myself included) so I will tell you what it is. It is to use skills like jumping, running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, and wall scaling to get around different obstacles. In this book the boys could get off a 2 story building by using parkour becuase they used ledges around them and trees to drop the the ground. Here is a video of about parkour. This is part one of five of a Discovery Channel Documentary and part of it is in French but just watch because that is all you need to see to understand parkour.
Book Information:
Hardcover: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 0547390165
ISBN-13: 978-0547390161
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As I have a week off school I have a lot of reading time. So I went to the library the other day and got myself a nice stack of books to make my way through. Some of the reviews that you can be expecting are….
Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davis
A Crack in the Sky by Mark Peter Hughes
The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
&
Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The first one will be Hacking Timbuktu as I finished that in under 6 hours.
So I must go off and writing a stunning review as it was a stunning book.
It is a normal Monday morning and Emily Snow is going to work to earn what money she can after her parents “died.” As she was passing an alley, she witnessed a battle between creatures which were not taller than her knee. This is because Emily can see into another world than just her own. She cannot just sit there. Doing nothing is not one of the options and the Invisible Order – a secret army dedicated to protecting our world from creatures like Faerie’s – knows about Emily and what she can do and they will do anything to get her to work for them. With her brother William and a street thief, Spring-Heeled Jack, that cold winters morning was the beginning of her adventure and if this century old battle is not won, the world as we know it just might be destroyed.
Review
This book was good but (here comes the big but) they ended it dreadfully. The last chapter just left you hanging and then it said ‘This is the end of book one and to find out what happens read book two, The Fire King.’ I though that it was the worst ending a book could have. If a book says “book one” it normally implies that there is a book two. Also how about the author added in the beginning of the book, ‘This is the beginning of book one. Start reading the book so you can read book two also.’ The book was exciting and everything but it was just a bad way to end it. But just because a book is exciting does not mean that it is written well. I felt – personally – that they did not describe the characters very well. They just kind of said they were tall and had blond hair (none of the characters looked like that though, at least I don’t think there were) and that was all they said about it. The story was good and it was the only thing that kept me reading it. I wanted to find out what happened next. They just did not describe looks very well. I would recommend people to read this book so you read the story but just be prepared you might not find the end satisfactory.
Also there is no book two yet so you will have to wait for a little while to find out what happens.
