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  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: Ch 02

    Skip to near the end of the school year, and Percy is complaining about how confused he’s been over the Dodds/Kerr mix-up.  He knows it wasn’t his brain playing tricks on him, because Grover keeps acting shady every time he brings up the issue.  Why Grover or Mr. Brunner don’t talk to him about this…

  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: Ch 01

    This review was first written and posted in March of 2013. Percy Jackson opens in much the same way that Animorphs did: with the main character talking to the reader, pretending like real life snuck into the fiction section.  All well and good, but I have the same issue here that I did there.  Is…

  • Divergent: Ch 37 & 38 & 39

    I watch the others run in the opposite direction—toward safety, toward Amity—for a few seconds, and then I turn away, toward the city, toward the war. Book, you keep using that word.  I don’t think it means what you think it means.  See, in a war, two groups of combatants fight each other.  In a…

  • Divergent: Ch 35 & 36

    This is no longer a YA book about a messed up society and one little girl figuring that out.  Nope.  Because this book has morphed into a straight-up James Bond novel.  How did that happen, you ask?  Well, it was very easy.  Tris wakes up in an honest-to-god Bond-villain death-trap.  A tank slowly filling with…

  • Divergent: Ch 33 & 34

    Oh…this is just precious.  Tris wants to tell Tobias about her mind-control discovery, but there’s too many people around trying to congratulate her.  Then she decides to do it later, but she’s falls asleep instead.  It’s like you can just feel the author going “oh, shit, wait, I didn’t mean for that to happen yet. …

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