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Tracy Brennan tracye489 — The Dark Hills Divide, by Patrick Carman This book is a little hard to follow at times, but becomes better as you read. This book is a good read for girls looking a book about an independent book. I enjoyed this book. This is the 1st book in the The Land of Elyon series.

Hei Mou mouzphoto — In "Earthfall," the rather biblical-feeling, constantly bickering, occasionally even murderous clan of Rasa and The Wetchick finally makes it to Earth, 40 million years in our future when all humans are long gone and two new sentient species are trying to fill their ecological niche. A few things stuck out to me as I read this second-to-last book in the series: 1) Card's books will never be made into movies. They don't deal with the right subject matter. Even in a plot where a couple of dozen soft, untrained, modern individuals attempt not only to resurrect 40-million year old ships but also create a functional, self-sustaining colony on a long abandoned planet, we don't have themes of "man vs. environment" or even "man vs. technology." The takeoff and landing take place off screen, for goodness sake, and the mid-trip alarm that scares everyone out of their hibernation sleep is due not to mechanical failure but the unplanned awakening and subsequent machinations of the murderous elder brother of Nafai. In other words, Card is far too busy dealing with "Man vs. Himself" - all that internal conflict - to bother with the pedestrian possibility of crop failure, illness, or the basic complexity of trying to go it alone in a wilderness with only a few dozen colony members. This is very different from most sci-fi w/ similar plot elements. The "introverted" focus, however, remains interesting - although frankly by book 4 the Elemak vs. Nafai conflict is getting a little bit old. Thankfully the "angels" and "diggers" appear to take some of the focus. 2) Card also delights in designing strange alien species with even stranger reproductive requirements and symbioses. In the Ender-verse we have the piggie / little mother / father tree / descolada setup that occupies so much of "Xenocide" and "Children of the Mind." The angel / digger interrelationship in "Homecoming" is only slightly less bizarre. Perhaps reading between the lines the message here is "If it was working when you found it, don't mess with it. You don't understand it and will probably break it." There's some wisdom in that, I must admit! In summary, read this book if you are a Card fan already and following the whole series, but it doesn't stand well on its own, nor is it supposed to. And the Ender-verse is really a bit better! :)

Duan Yuliang _ryptozoiceon — Looking for the next thing in distopian YA action fiction until the Hunger Games comes out? Then this is the book for you or your teen, plus your teen will have to get out their thesaurus. In this dark future Chicago, at age 16 each teen must choose which faction - Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, Erudite, or Candor that they wish to join. Each faction has their own set of values/jobs/goals in the society and they keep separate. Then they go through an initiation process. Tris joins Dauntless and goes through a crazy initiation (very violent - almost too much for me) then she discovers that things are not what they may seem - she is Divergent - meaning she has properties of more than one faction. She's an enemy to the faction leaders and discovers an evil plot to destroy her parent's faction. And of course she finds a love interest. And what do you know - it's the first of a trilogy. But hey - I'll take this over more teen vampire books.

Andreea Miclaus andreeamiclaush — I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I have never really liked robert louis stevenson, and have tried to read this book a billion times. I finally got through it though for English and it was pretty entertaining.