Paging Teens

Orson Scott Card is famous for blowing the minds of his readers, as well as writing the space oriented highly acclaimed best seller, Ender’s Game. What happens when you take the two and put them together? The Pathfinder series, of course. Throughout the entire series, there have been so many twists and turns it’s been a wild ride just trying to keep up with the storyline. The first book, Pathfinder, starts out relatively simple, introducing some different versions of time travel and an easy to see conflict that gets resolved…read more

Endgame is here. Endgame, co-written by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton tells the story of 12  teens who are descendants from the original 12 lines of humanity.  The first book of Endgame, The Calling, the 12 teens must travel all over the world following clues left by their ancestors in order to find the first key. Whoever finds all three keys, wins Endgame. There are no rules, lying, cheating, and killing are all permitted.  The only catch is, the if you lose Endgame, your entire ancestral line, a huge portion…read more

      Parents of children, from the ages of 13-17 are permitted and encouraged by the government to rip their children apart and sell the pieces of their body for money. And the scariest part is: They do it. All it takes is a couple of minor offenses and before you know it your being cut into pieces apart by surgeons. This is the type of society that protagonist Connor Lassiter aims to bring down in the epic end to the Unwind Dystology.       I really enjoyed…read more

       What would you do if you woke up with no recollection of who you are or where you came from? To discover that almost the entire human population has been exterminated by strange creatures known as the Fade that live in the complete darkness that is now the rest of the world and are a threat to the last safe haven, Arclight, every day? All of this is a reality in Arclight, by Josin Mcquein.         I really enjoyed Arclight for three reasons. Reason…read more

An alien species, commonly known as the Buggers, has made two attempts to invade earth and the humans just barely able to fought them off.  Now, in preparation for the third invasion, the brightest kids from all over the world have been transported to a space station where they train to become the next commanders and generals in the third invasion.  This is called Battle School.  Ender Wiggin,who is six years old, is a third, meaning the government allowed his parents to have him, in hopes that Ender will have…read more

Lance McKendrick’s parents were murdered by a super human named Slaughter. Killing her and getting his revenge is the only thing that is fueling Lance while he crosses the country escaping two Super Humans in Michael Carrol’s Hunter, the fourth book in the Super Human series.  In this dystopian world there are no super heroes, or super villains just Super Humans. As Lance, or as he calls himself, Hunter, progresses along his travels he realizes that there is no good or bad, and for that reason he cannot trust anyone….read more

What would you do if you found out that you were a serial killer.  Well, mores specifically you were made form the genes of a dead serial killer named Jeffery Dahmer as part of a top secret government experiment.  To top it all off, the person who you thought is your father was actually the head scientist in this experiment. I don’t know about you but I probably would have freaked out.  Big Time.  Well this is exactly what happens in Project Cain. Luckily protagonist Jeff Jacobson handles this news…read more

For Mia Kish all interviews are the same. Every reporter asks her the same questions, dress in the same classic reporter’s uniform of a wrinkled shirt with a sweater on top, and is only interested in one thing: how she fell down a well. But, this interview is different.  The reporter, Blake Sutton is only interested in her father, and not anything well related.  Soon after the interview what seemed like a normal day turns into something most definitely not normal.  Mia receives a call from her father, a government…read more

It happens on the eve of every single eighteenth birthday of every single male in the village of Claysoot. First there is a memorial dinner in his honor, and then the villagers line up to say farewell. After that, the sky erupts into a flash of bright light, and he’s gone. This happens on every boy’s eighteenth birthday… until the day of Gray Weathersby’s supposedly older brother’a eighteenth birthday. After his brother disappears, Gray discovers that he is in fact a twin with his brother, which means that e is…read more