Recently, my sister and I have been watching Misfits. Wich brings back memories of movies like Push and X-men. I've always been a fan of the X-men and there powers, so I enjoy reading books with these types of powers. And if you do to, here is a list of books:
Stars: *** and 1/2 Genre: YA, romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Action.
Seventeen year old Lila has two big secrets, first of all she has a crush (in her case it's considered an obsession) on her brother's best friend and she is telekinetic. After almost scrapping someones eye out with her powers she decides to flee England and go to her older brother who lives in the states, where she thinks she will be safe. She promises herself not to use her power again and be normal, at least act it. She soon discovers her brother and her crush work for a secret organisation called the Unit were they hunt people like her. Lila gets involved in the Unit, meets people like her and discovers secrets.
I didn't like Lila much, she was a bit too obsesive with her crush (her way of making time go faster is thinking of him, and she stole his shirt) but there where great characters in this book, like Suki. Suki was lots of fun.
Stars: ***** Genre: YA, Action, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance
Dez loves doing extreme stuff, bungee jumping, skateboarding off roofs, anything that makes the adrenaline pump though her body. She also loves pissing off her father so when a mysterious boy with blue eyes lands in front of her on her way home she takes him to her house. Kale, the blue eyed cutie, is weird, he doesn't let her touch him, always jumping away, and he showers while wearing the shoes she lent him. And then her father comes home. She expects him to yell at her but she is suprised to find him with a gun, pointing at Kale, while this boy threatens to touch her. Apparently, his touch kill, but for some reason she is immune to his touch. Also, her father works for some type of secret organisation called Denazen who uses people like Kale, people with special powers known as Sixes, as weapons. Kale and Dez go looking for a guy known as the reaper, hidding from her father. And Dez discovers her father is not the only one with secrets, because she has a secret she has hidden from him all his life, something she could use against him...
Dez was a great kick ass character. She was the one who told the story and it was quite fun making me laugh many times and getting weird looks from my family. And Kale!!! I've read a book once with a boy like Kale, it was a Spanish book that I have as my fav, but Kale is a tiny bit better. If you've seen X-men, Push, and Misfits, you'll like this book because it has those powers, nothing of glitery vamps or hairy weres. And as it hurts to say, the second book to this magnificant series will come out on September 11th, which seem so so so so far :( .
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Stars: ***** Genre: YA, Dystopian, Romance, Survival, Adventure, Action
Alenna Shawcross is a orphan of the UNA (United Northern Alliance, a super country consisting of Canada, Mexico and the US.). Alenna is shy and quiet, never fitting in. And then we have the GPPT, the exam every teenager takes to see if they have a high capacity for brutal violence. If the GPPT says you are capable of brutal violence you get sent to Prison Island Alpha a.k.a The Wheel (a remote island with a life expectancy of just two years.)
Alenna knows she will not be sent to the Wheel, she has never shown any inclination to violence but somehow, after her GPPT she wakes up in The Wheel.
In the Wheel she is taken in by the villagers, a group of kids who are in a war with the drones, the other group in the island. Alenna makes friends in the village and meets a blue eyed boy who seems very familiar and who she is drawn to.
Slowly Alenna discovers how the island works and about the strange illness that takes some and the weird machines that take others.
Alenna and her friends go on a search to find a way out of the island, never expecting what they will find.
Alenna starts out as an orphan with no special survival skill, not like Katniss (Hunger Games) who has an incredible aim with the bow and arrow or Saba (Blood Red Road) who can fight and win. Alenna is just a normal city girl and when she is dropped in the Wheel she has to find a way to survive, learning from those around her.
This book was full of suprises that I never expected. So, if you are a fan of the Hunger Games, or any other dystopian triology, you might like to read this book.
