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Taylor

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Hi, my name is Taylor. I love to draw, paint, and write.
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  • member since September 24, 2012

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  • Insurgent
    • Rated 5 stars

    “This was another epic book that Mrs. Veronica Roth has done. Insurgent takes you back to the amazing world of which she has created. As Tris and Four go to Amity, they find themselves in more puzzles to solve. Marcus has himself secrets that have vital importance to the Factions and which they need to know about. When Four finds his “dead” mother with the factionless he can only wonder what she was doing there. As the story goes on, Tris finds herself going from faction to faction to find out what Marcus has. When they get to Candor, they find more of the Dauntless, but not as much as they hoped for. Some of the Dauntless changed sides and had become traitors. When Tris finds herself captured by Erudite and the Dauntless traitors, she was prepared to die, but things didn’t work out like they normally would. Four had helped her escaped at the cost of their love for each other. As the book comes to a climax, they all find out the darkest secret of the factions and how and why they were created.
    I loved this book just as much as I had loved the first one. The book was just extraordinary! If you love a book with a large scale of action and a measure of romance on the side this book would be perfect for you, like it is me. I absolutely cannot wait for the next book to come out in 2013. I had also heard that they were going to make a movie for the first book Divergent. Absolutely so excited!
    The only thing I can say that I didn’t like about the book was that, I think that since there was so much action the author could have slowed it down a little bit for her readers. There was just so much, that when you finish reading it you would have to go back and figure out what happened.
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    Taylor wrote this review Monday, January 14, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Into the Wild
    • Rated 4 stars

    “A cat named Rusty has always been curios about life in the forest near his home. He has always been watching the forest while sitting on a fence. He had heard stories of there being wild cats that lived out in the forest and had hunted like beasts. So he wanders in one day trying to catch a mouse, when a wild cat jumped out and attacked him. When the fights over, he gets offered to join Thunder Clan, a wild group of cats that fight for their territories. He accepts their offer and joins. Throughout the book he learns about the clan`s ways and gets his own title, Firepaw. Soon after, a terrible trouble reaches Thunder Clan. Another clan attacks called River Clan, but they may have been set up by a cat from there clan.
    I liked this book a lot. It had so much action in it. It was really fun to read something different, instead from a human’s perspective. I like how it had a lot of action and it never got boring. I liked the name his clan gave to him though.
    I didn`t like his name at the beginning of the book, it was kind of lame. The author could have picked a cooler name.
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    Taylor wrote this review Wednesday, October 31, 2012. ( reply | permalink )
  • Divergent
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A young girl named Tris lived a selfless life in the Abnegation faction, but she knows that she hasn`t fit in much. The tests for the factions are coming up. When she finishes the nerve racking test, she finds out that she is Divergent. She doesn`t know what it means or how dangerous it is, but she can`t tell anyone about it. Every sixteen year old will pick what faction they want to be in. After Tris picks Dauntless as her faction she has to go through initiation. The first stage of the initiation is to fight and learn how to defend yourself. Along the way she has a deep connection with an initiate trainer named Four. As she starts to fall for him, he starts to fall for her. They both find out that Eric, one of the Dauntless leaders, is working with another faction to destroy Abnegation. Then as she gets to the second stage of initiation, everything starts to go the wrong way. She is at the top for the second stage, which is going through your worst nightmares. Then she finds out who Four really is and where he is from. After the second stage everyone goes to the final test. She passes it with flying colors as first place, but everything was a bit off. The next morning she wakes up and everyone is out of bed walking like zombies and heading for Abnegation. Tris and Four are the only ones awake, but soon they get captured and then four gets manipulated against his will. Tris meets her father and brother to go to the Dauntless headquarters to save Abnegation and Four.
    I loved this book to death, I couldn`t stop reading. I couldn`t think about anything else what so ever. I would give this book a five star. The book had everything I was looking for like action, adventure, and a bit of romance on the side. I absolutely can`t wait to read the second book called Insurgent.
    One of the things I didn`t like about Divergent was the ending. I think that the ending should have ended better. I also think that it went a little fast at the end, because everything kind of got clumped together way too quickly.
    ”

    Taylor wrote this review Wednesday, October 31, 2012. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Giver And Related Readings

    The Giver And Related Readings

    by MCDOUGAL LITTEL
    • Rated 3 stars

    “A young boy named Jonas is anxous about turning twelve. The community where he lives is peaceful and regulated by the council. One day when Jonas and his friend Asher were playing a friendly game of catch with an apple, it had suddenly changed from Jonas’s perspective. ”

    Taylor wrote this review Monday, October 29, 2012. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Other Side of the Island
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A girl named Honor moves to the Island 365 in Tranquil Sea with her parents. Life is good there, peaceful. Everything is regulated by the Council and Earth mother, the sky to have certain colors at each hour, the money, and how everybody works. But everything changes when her parents decide to have a second child which is against the rules. So she stands out with all the other students, but as everything continues she starts to fit in. Then she starts seeing her parents leave at night and come back early in the morning. Her parents then go missing and she finds out that everything was a lie and she would have to fix it. She started thinking that her mother might have been turned into an orderly, a person who has no emotions and feels nothing. So when she sees her mother at the bakery factory, she makes an escape plan to rescue her.
    I absolutely loved this book. It was filled with adventure, suspense and bravery. I loved how the character, Honor, soaked up a enough of courage to go do what she had to do, to risk her life and save her mother. I also liked her parents and how they weren’t afraid to get in trouble and do what they wanted to do.
    The only thing I didn’t like was how honor had chosen to change her name to Heloise. I didn’t mind having her change her name, but the author had to change it to Heloise. I just don’t like the name. One other thing I didn’t like about the book was how the book often went from excitement and then slows.
    ”

    Taylor wrote this review Monday, October 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink )
  • Legend
    • Rated 5 stars

    “It started with a wanted Poster. His name printed in thick black ink, Day. There is no picture on the poster, because no one knows what he looks like. At fifteen he is the most wanted criminal in the Republic. He has his name all over the Jumbo- Trons around the Sectors. Everybody’s hunting him down to stop him from destroying the Republics plan. One girl in particular is June. As June’s brother leaves one night, she gets the call that he was dead the next. It happened at the hospital. Somebody had stolen some medicine on the third floor. They said the culprit jumped three stories and survived. She knew that Day killed her brother and she wanted revenge. As June hunts him down, Day has his own problems of trying to save his family’s lives.
    This was one of the best books I have ever read. I loved this book and can’t wait for the next one in the series to come out. I liked how it was nonstop action, suspense, and mystery. It was a cat and mouse chase with love bundled up in the middle of it. I loved how the writer, Marie Lu, had each chapter switch from character to character. One of my favorite things about the book was how there was nothing, not one part in the book which was boring. It was never slow.
    The only thing I didn’t like about the book was the ending. I just didn’t like how the writer ended the book, but there is another one coming out soon. So I am excited. One other thing is the character’s personality. It goes from hero to Vitim and it made him look weak.

    ”

    Taylor wrote this review Monday, October 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink )

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