Pendragon: The Lost City of Faar
Becky

Pendragon; The Lost City of Faar is a gripping tale one can never forget. It twists and turns, never failing to keep your undivided attention.

Pendragon is a series of books. This novel is the second in the series. These great books are about young 14 year old Bobby Pendragon. He lives a normal life, in Stony Brook Connecticut, until one day his uncle takes him on a "short trip". "Short doesn’t even start to describe this trip. They travel to different worlds! Each world is reaching a crisis, (for example, a war or famine) and it’s all up to Bobby to save all of these worlds. But can he?

In Pendragon; The Lost City of Faar, Bobby travels to a world that survives on and under water! But their food supply is quickly becoming scarce. Once again, Bobby must save a world.

The Lost City of Faar is definitely a great read. If you like books in the genre of fantasy, this is most likely a good book for you. The characters are easy to relate to, especially if you are a teen. But that doesn’t mean only teens can read this great series. Younger children probably wouldn’t understand them though. Any one age 10 and over can read these books and is bound to enjoy them.

Pendragon: The Merchant of Death By D.J. Machale
Tyler
4 stars

Since I normally read fantasy books, I had no trouble getting involved with Pendragon. Pendragon: The Merchant of death is actually the first book in the Pendragonseries. I thought that the author did a wonderful job of describing the characters and setting.

The setting of Pendragon was described very well. It is set in a suburb outside of New York City where Bobby Pendragon lives. Bobby is the main character in the story; his Uncle Press is another main character who tells Bobby that he is a traveler and is supposed to save all the territories, (other worlds) from falling into chaos. The other characters that are important are, Mark Diamond Bobby’s oldest and best friend, as well as Courtney Chetwynde Bobby’s girlfriend. Mark and Courtney are important because they are holding on to bobby’s journals that he sends to him while he is on his adventures. The bad guy in the series is Saint Dane; Saint Dane is an evil traveler who is trying to rule all of halla, all the territories.

Really there is not anything in the story that I did not like, there were some parts that I did not understand but for the most part it was all very exciting. I think that this book would be very good for someone who has read fantasy books before of for someone who is trying this genre for the first time. It is a very good book for people ten and older.    

Pendragon:  The Reality Bug
D.J.
**** four stars

          This is the fourth book in the Pendragon series. The series is about a boy named Bobby Pendragon, who is a Traveler, a person that can travel to Territories, special places in space and time, using the Flumes. A flume is a special tunnel with magical powers that can transport Travelers to different Territories. Each Flume is marked by a star engraved in a door. In The Reality Bug, Bobby goes to a territory called Veelox, a futuristic world where the streets and cities are completely deserted and everyone is in a program called Lifelight, which lets people live in a virtual Utopia sculpted by their own thoughts.

          Unfortunately, the evil Saint Dane has picked Veelox as his target, and the people must come out of Lifelight to be able to survive his attack. The traveler from Veelox, Aja Killian, designed a virus called the reality bug in order to make Lifelight have problems to make it like reality. There’s just one problem with this plan: The virus is unstoppable.

          I liked just about every part of this book. It had lots of action, well developed characters, and good dialogue. The only part I didn’t like was the fact that sometimes, when something exciting or big was going to happen, it would switch back to Earth and leave you wanting more of the action.

          I think that Science Fiction fans, Fantasy fans, Action fans, and Adventure fans would like this book because it contains elements from all four. I also think that people ages ten and up would like this book, because some swears and violence are in the story. Overall, it was a great book.

Pendragon: The Lost City of Faar
Tim

Pendragon; The Lost City of Faar is a gripping tale one can never forget. It twists and turns, never failing to keep your undivided attention.

Pendragon is a series of books. This novel is the second in the series. These great books are about young 14 year old Bobby Pendragon. He lives a normal life, in Stony Brook Connecticut, until one day his uncle takes him on a "short trip". "Short doesn’t even start to describe this trip. They travel to different worlds! Each world is reaching a crisis, (for example, a war or famine) and it’s all up to Bobby to save all of these worlds. But can he?

In Pendragon; The Lost City of Faar, Bobby travels to a world that survives on and under water! But their food supply is quickly becoming scarce. Once again, Bobby must save a world.

The Lost City of Faar is definitely a great read. If you like books in the genre of fantasy, this is most likely a good book for you. The characters are easy to relate to, especially if you are a teen. But that doesn’t mean only teens can read this great series. Younger children probably wouldn’t understand them though. Any one age 10 and over can read these books and is bound to enjoy them.

The Perfect Storm
Review by Daniel
A hurricane is coming your way; you have no connection to the outer world, and you’re about to die in the middle of the ocean. What feeling could be any worse?

The men aboard the Andrea Gail, a sixty-eight foot fishing vessel, did in the adventurous book The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.  

It tells the story of a crew of six men that left from Gloucester, Massachusetts on a three-month swordfish trip. The captain Billy Tyne, a tall bearded man, controls everything on the boat. He knows everything about the sea. The crew also consists of Bugsy Moran, Bobby Shatford, Alfred Pierre, David Sullivan, and Dale Murphy. On their way home from the trip the crew runs into an unexpected storm and the worst of all things happens. The ocean swells reach almost ninety feet. To the men it seems like the end of the world, and they know it will take a miracle to survive.

This book is truly spectacular. Junger gets the reader right into the book and makes one’s eyebrows rise above their forehead. He lets the reader feel like the characters and imagine their troublesome situations. Some parts can actually make a stomach cringe. For example, in one part Bugsy was taking one of the hooks out of the water. All of a sudden it pierced right through his hand like a knife threw butter. It dragged him to the bottom of the ocean almost killing him.

This is a great passage that shows the writing talent of Junger of when a coast guard member named John Spillplane tries to save his own life by jumping out of a helicopter, “He plunges through darkness without any idea where the water is or when he is going to hit. He has a dim memory of letting go of his one-man raft, and of his body losing position, he thinks: My God, what a long way down. And then everything goes blank.” At the same time, Sebastian Junger expressed a great amount of knowledge on experience about fishing and the sea in general.

There was only one aspect that I disliked about the book. At the beginning all the author talked about was fishing. How to fish, what to do when fishing, the best areas of fishing. Enough was enough, this got very boring. I felt there was too much description. Luckily this only lasts for the first sixty pages.

Personally I could not put the book down until I finished it. It was truly remarkable. I recommend this book to everyone and it will be enjoyed. It’s a book that cannot be put down. The book also gives awareness about the danger of fishermen and the deaths at sea that no one knows about. Someone can fall off a boat and it will seem like they fell off the edge of the world. So don’t hesitate, hop on your boat and read this book!

This is a bone chilling story you wont want to put down. The whole time I was trying to figure out who was the so called phantom and who I think is a murderer. When I finally found out who I thought it was, it turned out to be someone I would have never suspected. I would recommend this book to boys and girls who enjoy a good mystery and a little bit of football.

What does Alex find in this environment? He only knows his friends are changing drastically within twelve hours, and once they change they act exactly the same. What is going on? Find out when you read Point Blank.