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What happens is that she gets blamed for the death of Kyle Kirby younger brother by non-other then Kyle. So he does a classic which is to get revenge on the one who killed him which would mean in his opinion her. When he lived with his mom he used to work at a rich person’s house taking care of the lawn, gardens and the green house and since the family is on a vacation it turns into the perfect hiding spot for the his revenge. Now Cass is 6 feet under and fighting a battle against time to change his mind and to free her before she dies from lack of food and water.

This was DEFINATELY my favorite book out  of the Gateways this year. I love forensic science thrillers like CSI:LV. So, Naturally this was awesome! I like how Alane Ferguson put all the gory details into the book. It made me feel like I was watching another great episode of CSI. HOWEVER! when Dr. Jewel, tried to kill her at the end…OMFG!! DIDN’T SEE THAT ONE COMING!! O_O Awesome twists and turns. Really loved this book!

5 STARS

I didn’t expect to like this book, in all honesty.  That’s part of the reason why I waited so long to start it, but in the end it rather surprised me.  It was a well rounded novel about a young girl who desperately loves opera and wants to make that her career.  She has the talent and the drive to do it, but not exactly the nerve.

There are many examples of how she is a rather weak-willed kind of person.  Passive, I guess you would say.  She let’s the ‘plastics’ push her around and turn her into who they want her to be, although that doesn’t necessarily work out so well.  She wants to go to a Artsy school, one that has a lot of musical opportunities, but knows her mother will say no.

Her parents are divorced and she rarely, if ever, sees her dad.  Her mother is decent as far as mom’s can go.  Not horribly bad, but then not outstanding either.  She acts a lot like a teenager at heart and seems to find Caitlin a nuisance into her life.  She doesn’t exactly have “high morals”, especially when it comes to men.  Regularly flirting with any boy that comes home with Caitlin, and even picking up on married men.  (aka, Dr. Toe Jam)

I found this book very interesting and quite humorous.  It made me more interested in opera, and I admit that Phantom of the Opera and Madame Butterfly are now some personal favorites.  This book deserved to be a Gateway.

This book was pure poetry.  It showcases with amazing accuracy the endurance and adaptation that children possess in order to deal with any terrible injustices that they are subjected to.

Matthew, Callie and Emmy are three siblings that are dominated over by their emotionally unstable mother, NIkki.  Nikki suffers from terrible moodswings and is most likely completely insane.  She views her children as her property, so she may do whatever she wishes to with them and often has terrifying rages where she will hurt them.  She views herself as a caring parent who only has their interests at heart, and sometimes she acts like it as well but that is just as much of a facade as everything else.

The novel itself is written in the format of Matthew’s thoughts and memories, in a journal to Emmy.  He believes that she won’t remember much of it, but of what she does remember, is mostly bad.  He’s hoping to explain how and why all of what occured happened.  How, through the help of a man named Murdoch, they were able to get the children away from Nikki, and into safer hands.

I really enjoyed reading this book and found it a relatively easy read.  It was very well written and flowed together nicely.  The short chapters made it seem as if the book was going much faster as well.  Normally, when a book ends the way that this one did, it leaves in me a feeling of incompleteness.  As in I wish to know if Emmy ever read this?  where did Nikki go?  did she ever return?  and other various questions like that.  However, from the way the novel was written, as more of a thought process than anything else, it felt natural to leave questions.  The children are not fully grown, Nikki is still a possible threat, and we’ll never know what else happened with Emmy and Callie, with Ben and Aunt Bobbie, or even Murdoch and Nikki, but that’s all okay.  This book is just that good.

I was a little disapointed in this book, it had amazing characters and a unique way of telling the story.  But the book became very mondane and boreing twards the last third of the book.  Also I think Price could have done more with the characters.  They were very creative but he then does not do anything with them.  This was not a bad book, but it was not a good book.  It was a interesting read, but it could have been so much more.

This highly amusing book offers something for every reader. It has instances of humor, such as drug use at the most inopportune time, and tension, such as a cavity search. As Leo spends time on the road with the band Purge, he begins to become more comfortable with himself as he discovers who he really is and where he came from. Overall, this book is about self-discovery and being true to yourself.

“The Christopher Killer,” written by Alane Ferguson, entices one to dive into the thrilling experiences of terror and adventure captured through the eyes of a young female detective. Cameryn, a character created by Ferguson, has caught my predilection through her sense of adventure for knowledge and her confusion of what is considered to be science and what is to be considered religion. Alane Ferguson’s knowledge of actual forensic cases combined with her literary techniques enabled her to conjure a wonderful novel. Many exciting adventure occurred while following the character of Cameryn such as bodies being investigated, witnesses being interviewed, and witnessing a tragic downfall of a villain. As I was reading this book, a sense of suspense filled me as I was tracking Cameryn through her case. Action added to the tension of this book and continued to add more drama to the overall plot. I was surprised at the surprising ending when I read this book, for it kept me waiting till the end to get to the bitter truth. This mystery novel offers what every crime sleuth demands: a desire for action, a never-ending spiral to the plot, unpredictable outcomes, and an awful stench of decaying bodies in water. This mystery novel inspired and written by Alane Ferguson will keep you waiting till the end to find who did what and will be a terrific novel to read.  I would highly recommend that you add this book to your reading list.

i did not like the begining, alot of it did not make sense to me i know what they were talking about but it was hard to keep my attenion. I liked it better after the story kicked off. i like beka’s cat i would live to have a magick cat. it was funny when beka got paired with goodwin. she thought she was going to be mean but so far she seems nice. i also liked how tunstall tuck cair of that pickpocket it was grate.

Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen. New York City : Penguin Group, 2006.

So far, I really like this book. It’s one that anyone can relate to because it is so realistic. It deals with issues and real-life problems that anyone, especially people our age, may actually be going through.

Annabel Greene is basically your typical teenager. Or, she used to be anyway. She had friends, went to parties, had a fantastic modeling agency, was popular and basically the picture of perfection, until it all started happening. She loses all of her friends, wants to quit modeling, and now sits alone at lunch. That is, until she meets Owen, who seems to be her only, and best friend after everything happens.

I like how Sarah Dessen seems to know what teens are going through these days. Annabel’s sister, Whitney, has an eating disorder, and her grandma (her mom’s mom) has recently died. So much drama seems to happen at school and even at home. Her sisters fight all the time, and, of course, it drives her and her mother crazy. Sarah Dessen does a great job of touching topics that seem to be happening in today’s society and I can’t wait to find out what’s going to happen in the second half of the book.

I thought  this book was very well done.  I like it when you go to one story to the next.  One thing that i didn’t like about the book was it’s lauguage.  It had a little to much for me.  Overall it was a well done book.