Monday, 27 May 2013

The Nightmare Factory


The Nightmare Factory

By L. A. Jones



The Nightmare Factory is a book about Andy and his sister who get some money from their Mum and so they go to the street markets. When Andrew and Poppy get there, a Thug TRIES to take Poppy’s twenty-dollar note but Andy bravely tells him to go away. So the Thug comes and TRIES to strangle him, but (read this in slow motion) Andy is in slow motion plus strength super power and pushed the Thug who goes flying through the air and rolls his ankle wow! (Also stop reading slow motion now).

When a woman named Tiffany Grey comes and takes Andy and his sister to her stall, she wants Andy to meet someone, who? The person Tiffany wanted Andy to meet was an odd man called Oran. Oran gives Andy and Poppy dream catchers and tells them to hang them above their beds, but they DIDN’T!?!? At night time, Andy and Poppy haven’t hung their dream catcher’s up, then in their sleep they are kidnapped by a strange, awful, creature called Vesuvius, this creature is the leader of the nightmare factory.

The Nightmare factory is, well, a Nightmare factory, children are taken out of their dreams to the Nightmare factory. When this happens the children are put into special machines to extract their worst fears, so then this is how nightmares are made.

When Andrew and Poppy are taken to the Nightmare factory they wake up in a strange room were they get a strange hole in their neck, what does this do? After that Andy and Poppy are taken to a cafeteria like place where they meet a boy called Dan. Dan has only two more weeks to live; the Nightmare factory needs children under the age of 16, because the child over the age of 16’s fear is not powerful enough.  On the 16th birthday they put the child in the Mountain of Doom where they will get killed.

The evil Vesuvius is not the only one who runs the Nightmare factory; there are these evil, black, bony, caped, horrifying, creatures called Shadowmares! They are the minions of Vesuvius and spread the nightmares they produce.

I liked book because it was exciting and it had many twists. I liked the imagination in it because there was a lot of unusual things and cool places – including the nightmare factory.

This book is a bit violent so you should decide if you want a bit of fright or not, in other words I recommend this book for people who like excitement!

I give the Nightmare factory a three stars because it could have bee a bit longer which would have been great! Have a good day!




Friday, 24 May 2013

Sorrowline


Sorrowline

By Niel Bushnell


Sorrowline is a book where a boy called Jack has accidently found out his special ability, he could travel down sorrowlines. The sorrowlines are in graves, they allow you to travel down to the date of the persons death on that grave stone. When Jack accidently does this the for the first time he goes down his mothers sorrowline there he meets his granddad, his granddad tells him to go down another sorrowline to meet his younger self in 1940, where the time travel adventure starts.

This book has a comment from Stephen Cole and if you don’t know who he you are crazy, he’s the author of Doctor Who. I’ll tell you his comment now, “What a terrific idea for a creepy time-travel thriller- I wish I’d thought of it!”.

 I’ll get into the character detail now, you obviously know Jack Morrow the main character, Davey is Jacks granddad, Eloise is a friendly paladin (an Ancient warrior girl), and Rouland who is Jacks enemy; they are main characters pretty much.

It’s a good book, no, a great book.  I don’t have any age rating for this book. My rating for this book is 4-stars. Will Jack defeat Rouland? Read to find out!!! 

 

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

The Run Away King



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The Run Away King



By Jennifer A. Nielson




The Run Away King is the second book that comes after The False Prince; I think that the two books are great and are well written. In The Run away King, Jaron goes on a dangerous journey to the pirates to stop them invading Carthya. I won’t tell you too much about this book because it would give it away, it’s tempting but I won’t. The main background is in the Pirates’ territory where there was lots of action and adventure. I got so engaged with book I was tempted too take it to school and read it in all my free time (no joke)!   



I am really looking forward to the third book coming out in 2014 I think the whole book will be about the ‘thing’ at the end of the book, I think the third book will be more action packed than the first and second book put together!!! My rating for this book is a stunning four stars!


Also I recommend this book for ages in between 8 and over, it has sequences that might be a bit violent for under 8 years of age hope you like the book!!!!