Catching up on the reading reviews
Not sure what order I read these in but that doesn't really matter...
The Second Death is a novel by an Australian journalist and radio personality, Kel Richards. The main character is a late-night talk-back radio show host, Mark Roman. During a sweltering Sydney summer (the descriptions of the heat were so evocative I felt sweaty myself) he takes a call from a woman called Liz, who begs for his help. Against his better judgement, he becomes involved in her family's problems. Liz's sister died overseas and Liz adopted her sister's son, Simon. Some 20 or so years later, his South American father is trying to make contact with him, and Liz is concerned that she will lose Simon. She tells Mark that her sister was killed by Simon's father and she is afraid of what the father will do to Simon.
When the movie Divergent came out, my sister-in-law told me she'd read the Divergent trilogy and loved it, so I borrowed the first book from the e-library. I didn't really have any idea what it was about. This is taken from Amazon "In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives."
Some time in the past, people had realised that society was failing due to a lack of good qualities in people and the factions were born after certain groups identified which qualities they felt were lacking. At the point in which this book takes place, the factions aren't working well with each other and it is apparent that some do not follow the ideals with which their groups were established. After Beatrice chooses her faction, she changes her name to Tris and goes through what every 16-year-old has to - initiation into her faction to prove herself worthy to join them. The penalty for failure is to be bound to no faction, to be factionless and live a hard and uncertain life. During initiation she makes both friends and enemies, and struggles to keep her secret from being exposed.
There are more, but I should get back to work. Plus, I can't remember them right now, except for Dork Diaries Skating Sensation, the 4th Dork Diary book by Rachel Renee Russell. Solveig got it for her birthday.
The Second Death is a novel by an Australian journalist and radio personality, Kel Richards. The main character is a late-night talk-back radio show host, Mark Roman. During a sweltering Sydney summer (the descriptions of the heat were so evocative I felt sweaty myself) he takes a call from a woman called Liz, who begs for his help. Against his better judgement, he becomes involved in her family's problems. Liz's sister died overseas and Liz adopted her sister's son, Simon. Some 20 or so years later, his South American father is trying to make contact with him, and Liz is concerned that she will lose Simon. She tells Mark that her sister was killed by Simon's father and she is afraid of what the father will do to Simon.
When the movie Divergent came out, my sister-in-law told me she'd read the Divergent trilogy and loved it, so I borrowed the first book from the e-library. I didn't really have any idea what it was about. This is taken from Amazon "In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives."
Some time in the past, people had realised that society was failing due to a lack of good qualities in people and the factions were born after certain groups identified which qualities they felt were lacking. At the point in which this book takes place, the factions aren't working well with each other and it is apparent that some do not follow the ideals with which their groups were established. After Beatrice chooses her faction, she changes her name to Tris and goes through what every 16-year-old has to - initiation into her faction to prove herself worthy to join them. The penalty for failure is to be bound to no faction, to be factionless and live a hard and uncertain life. During initiation she makes both friends and enemies, and struggles to keep her secret from being exposed.
There are more, but I should get back to work. Plus, I can't remember them right now, except for Dork Diaries Skating Sensation, the 4th Dork Diary book by Rachel Renee Russell. Solveig got it for her birthday.