Book Review - Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

Most of you guys (or girls) probably (hopefully) like to read books whenever you can. (Not between classes, though)

Imagine a character from your book coming to life... (No. That's no excuse to try and read extra. No point trying to summon some famous scientist, mathematician, antagonist, protagonist for your book. Aliens will not, I repeat, NOT emerge from your book, ready to do your bidding and eat up your teachers.)

This happens to Meggie and her father, Mo. Somehow, the duo have summoned some aliens from outer space.

Well, not really...

They HAVE summoned someone from a book. But its not an alien. Neither is it only one person. Meggie and her father must combat these evils they have unleashed and (somehow) get them to fit back in the book.

The characterisation was decent, but I'm not too happy with the storyline. Still, its a good buy (seeing that its a trilogy. Man, what's with these authors and trilogies?)

Rating? 7/10

Book Review - The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer

First of all, the name 'Eoin Colfer' is pronounced 'Owen Colfer' (Courtesy to Artemis Fowl Book 5 for revealing that to me).

Blah Blah Blah...

Ever faced blobs of matter that could absorb the very life out of your body?

No? (How boring can you be?)

Me neither...

Cosmo Hill is a boy living (not dying, please...) in Satellite City, a high tech future city. (Whatever, get on with it...)

You might be going OOH and AAH and WOOT WOOT and HOOT HOOT and WHISTLE WHISTLE, and many other forms of onomatopoeia, but that's besides the point. Life in the city for Cosmo Hill (He was found on Cosmonaut Hill if you're interested.) is not easy, being an orphan. That doesn't sound so bad, but for him it is. Not having a relative to live with means being sent to some social services institute. That doesn't sound too bad either (how bad can it get after all?) but Clarissa Freyne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys is toxic as hell (not to mention HOT HOT HOT!!!) The no-sponsors are treated like guinea pigs, have tests peformed on them by cruel marshalls etc. etc. etc.

Cosmo is sick of this life. He decides to attempt to escape from the Institute. (Never actually done before). When he gets that opportunity, he grabs it. (although the opportunity was actually tossed at him) But can he stay out of the bars of the Institute without (somehow, with his bad luck) getting back in?

And he just might be in for some luck (Like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow eh?) and might meet a few people willing to help him..

He will also have to prevent mutated alien parasites from Andromeda from destroying the Earth and save princesses from parallel universes...

Only joking, people.... (moan moan...)

He will have to fight some strange blobs (really!!!) and in the process, might just discover some things about the people who protect him, their friends AND (like in a typical book) about the (so called) antagonists, THE EVIL LIFE SUCKING BLOBS THAT CAME FROM ______(fill in whatever place you want to, school, Hell (If there is any), the cooking stove etc etc.)

The book was okay. Gripping storyline but I didn't like the ending because _______ (That's a secret to preserve the essence of the story, like preserving fruits as jam. Mouth watering eh?)

My rating for this book : 6/10