As you can tell by the title of this blog I’m hoping you are reading a novel. If so then I’m hoping you are reading this blog because you are looking for a review of a novel I’ve read recently. Truth be told for quite few of the novels I’ll review will be for teens and young adults.Since I teach 8th grade, I just have tendency to read what they read and try to keep my classroom library filled with books they will find interesting.
A current trend in teen/ya literature is dystopia.
There is no need to review novels like The Hunger Games, whose popularity speaks for itself. So my first two reviews will be for the novels The Roar and Xisle
Review of Roar
In the future humans are using terrible chemicals to fight The Animal Plague that causes all of the world’s animals to go rabid and renders most of the planet uninhabitable. The worlds population is forced to live in overcrowded walled cities. Mika, 12, and his parents live in London. His twin, Ellie, drowned a year earlier, but Mika is convinced that she still lives.The story begins with Ellie and Puck, a monkey escaping a spaceship in a stolen Pod Fighter. Their is foiled by the Mal Gorman, who has a plan make the children born after the Plague into an army for his own evil purposes. Gorman also has special plans for kids like Mika and Ellie, whose mutations give them special abilities. In order to save his sister, Mika needs to win a contest involving simulator battle games and many deadly challenges, using abilities he never knew he had. This story is quick paced and will leave readers wanting more. It is easy to see influences from Orson Scott Cards Enders Game.
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