Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Allegiant: About the Author.
        The author of this book, Veronica Roth is famous for the Divergent series, which is popular among many teens right now. The series is about five factions of people that are trapped in a city and lead themselves to survive, but as new secrets unfold, they encounter many problems. Veronica Roth has also written Starglass, and shards of ashes. Starglass is about a girl who is in a spaceship that left Earth many years ago. After watching a crew member kill an inncoent man, the girl is pulled into an underground rebel society to overthrow the ship captain in a mutiny. Shards of Ashes is a book about different author's worlds of dystopia, sharing stories of them, and comparting them to each other.

"The world is gone, destroyed by human, ecological, or supernatural causes. Survivors dodge chemical warfare and cruel gods; they travel the reaches of space and inhabit underground caverns. Their enemies are disease, corrupt corporations, and one another; their resources are few, and their courage is tested." -Veronica's Blog, about Shards of Ashes.

        Victoria Roth is mainly relying on the last book in the divergent series, Allegiant, which I am now reading. The Divergent series is the first series of book that the author has written herself, and the only as well. Victoria Roth did an amazing job writing the Divergent series, and since this book is probably the last in the series, I hope she does the same job on another book soon!

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

It's a new trimester! I hope you are all doing well in your classes so far, and are getting less homework. For my new class, I picked a sequel to the books Divergent and Insurgent, this book is called Allegiant. I've only read a few pages, but so far, it looks as if the factionless are trying to clean up the world. Yet in doing so they have made another tyrant. The leader of the factionless has taken power, and is forcing the people to mix and integrate when they don't want to. The faction citizens are fighting, yet the factionless seem blind to anything but a threat to themselves. All of the main characters will have to find a way to make peace a different way than this. I predict that Tris and her old friends from Dauntless will meet up and compose a plan to overthrow the factionless leader.