By Odalys Leal
The Eye of Minds (Mortality Doctrine, Book #1) by James Dashner – Yet another brilliant book series by The Maze Runner’s James Dashner, The Eye of Minds takes you on a journey to the future where technology is a lot more advanced and exciting than ours. The story welcomes you to VirtNet, a virtual world that offers total mind and body immersion for gamers to interact with others and play inside the video game of their choice. However, soon all fun and games stumble to an end when a mysterious and deadly gamer named Kaine begins kidnapping fellow gamers and not letting them go back to the real world alive. It is up to Michael and his friends, amateur hackers, to try and stop Kaine before humanity suffers the wrath of this deranged killer.
The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner Book #2) by James Dashner – If you liked The Maze Runner then you must read the second installment of the series, The Scorch Trials. WICKED is back and Phase Two of the trials has been initiated. The Gladers find themselves once again thrown into chaos and forced to fight for their lives; this time with a deadline hanging above their heads. The Gladers are given two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. Along the way, new characters are introduced and the boys are stuck in the predicament of not knowing who is a friend and who is a foe. The almost non-stop action and unexpected twists and turns that occur in this book keep you from putting it down.
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien – In simple terms, The Hobbit is a classic fantasy novel that must be read by everyone at least once. Filled with undaunted dwarves, savage orcs, a peculiar old wizard, an egoistic talking dragon and a loveable brave hobbit, this book takes you on a quest filled with excitement and danger. Read the book and then go enjoy the movie!
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike Book #2) – The second book installment to this brilliant series, The Silkworm follows Detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott into another case where a novelist has gone missing and found days later; brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances. The dead novelist left behind a manuscript for a book that if published, would have spilled many secrets and ruin lives. Due to this, the number of possible suspects is incredibly high, making the puzzle even harder to solve. An outstanding series written by Harry Potter’s J.K Rowling, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, this book is a good read for those who enjoy crime and mystery.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Divergent Book #2) – The second book continues immediately where the last one ended, introducing new characters and a another side to the main character, Tris. Her choice to switch faction alongside her status as Divergent has been the one of triggers to an unstoppable war between factions that will destroy friendships, take lives and cause unbelievable secrets to emerge.
Half Bad by Sally Green (Half Bad Trilogy Book #1) – Set in modern-day England, we enter a world where witches live alongside humans. There are White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and sixteen-year-old Nathan who is shockingly both. Nathan’s father, Marcus, is known as the world’s most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother who was a White witch is dead. Abandoned by his father and ripped from his remaining family due to prejudice and fear, Nathan is kept in a cage where he is beaten and tortured. As his seventeenth birthday approaches, Nathan must escape the cage and find his father to receive three gifts from him and come into his own as a witch—or else he will die. No one is to be trusted and the journey ahead of Nathan is unforgiving.
Four by Veronica Roth – If you are a Divergent fan then this book is perfect for you. Find out more about the events that occurred in the Divergent trilogy through the perspective of Tobias Eaton, better known as Four. Read all about Tobias’s backstory and re-discover the story through a new perspective.
