Book reviews 2017

  Ravens Gate by Anthony Horowitz. Book 1 of 5.

It all starts in a lonely warehouse when Matthew Freeman and his 'friend' Kelvin decide to steal some expensive gear. It's not as easy as they expect. Matt does not want trouble, but when a fit security guard finds them stealing the goods, Kelvin stabs him in the stomach. Matt helps the guard and waits for the ambulance and the police to arrive. Matt is 14 and too young for prison, so he is sent to the L.E.A.F project, helping young criminals get a normal life. But Matt is not normal. Not at all. When he was 8 he had a vision of his parents dying, and sure enough, his parents died.
The town is strange too. Death chants are sung and who are the old ones? Can Matt harness his power and can his friend Richard help Matt to stop the Old Ones, who if opened by the Ravens Gate portal, would destroy the world? Matt is one of the 5 children  to stop the old ones, but can he find the other 4 before it's to late?
I rate it 5 out of 5 and recommend it for children ages 12+

  The power of 5. : Evil Star book 2  by Anthony Horowitz

Matthew Freeman is back. He is attempting to stop another gate in Peru that will release the Old Ones, and finds another gatekeeper, a healer the second of the 5.  Matt knows that this gate is a huge threat and that he needs to stop it even if it may cost him his life.




The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  

 When  16 year old Katniss Evergreen saves her sister by enlisting in The Hunger Games she sees it as a death sentence, a place she will never come back from.
But with her and Peeta, anything is possible. They just need to escape murderous children, walls of fire and roaring animals.
Yeahhh. Great.
I would rate this book 5 out of 5 stars
and think this is suitable for ages 12+

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.  
Katniss Evergreen has survived the hunger games, but her troubles are just beginning. The capitoal wants revenge and there is talk of a seventy fifth  Hunger Games, a one most tributes who survived will have to participate in? Is this the girl on fires last stand?
Suitable for ages 12+ 5 out of 5 stars

400 minutes of danger.

Jack Heath.

All around the world, kids are being put in dangerous situations that they have to survive, to save their town, school and friends.

Can they do it?

I rate this 3 out of 5 stars,
Some story's were amazing but others were not as good.