Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger [Review]

Title: Keeper of the Lost Cities [Keeper of the Lost Cities #1]

Author: Shannon Messenger

Genre: Middle grade, Fantasy, Fiction

Publisher: Aladdin

Publishing date: October 2nd, 2012

Pages: 496

Rating

★★★★✩

Hello everyone, I read this book last year, actually, I read the first 3 books of this series last year but

haven’t had time of reviewing them till now. Keeper of the Lost Cities is a middle grade, fantasy series, I found out about it last year during Comic Con, Shannon Messenger was signing books, but there was none in line, so I approached her and asked her which one was the first book, there was Keeper of the Lost Cities and the Sky Fall trilogy, they hadn’t the first book of the trilogy, so I bought this one. Messenger signed it before I paid for it and told me not to run away with it xD This book rested in my bookshelf for a while, I had no actual intention of reading it, but when I found out the fifth installment was going to be released and she would be in tour near my home, I decided to read it to know what the story was about… and I loved it.

             

            Keeper of the Lost Cities tells us the story of a 12 year old girl named Sophie Foster, she tries as hard as she can to live a normal life, but that is nearly impossible because she is super intelligent, she is in high school despite being 12, she has photographic memory and also, she can read people’s minds since she’s five. One day, during a field trip to a museum, a handsome and mysterious boy approaches her and she discovers he can read minds too. This boy, Fitz, helps her to discover the truth: Sophie is an elf, just like him. Fitz’s father has been looking for her to return to the Elvin world, where she belongs. At the same time, there are mysterious fires around San Diego, none knows who start them or why, but it is related to a secret organization named Black Swan, an organization that’s supposedly altering the peace of the Elvin world and that knows the origins and everything about Sophie.  

Magyk - Angie Sage [Review]

Title: Magyk (Septimus Heap #1)

Author: Angie Sage

Genre: Fantasy, fiction, children.

Date published: March 1st, 2005

Price: $7.99 at Barnes & Noble

Buy: Amazon

Edition I read: Septimus (Spanish Edition)

Publisher: Montena

Translator: Teresa Campodrón

Year of publishing: 2006

Pages: 489

Rating:

★★★✩✩

Magyk is the first book in the Septimus Heap series written by Angie Sage. This book’s genre is fantasy and children fiction, its more focused toward children than young adults.

Sarah and Silas Heap.

      The seventh son of a seventh son is a person with extraordinary magical powers, in the Heap family a seventh son is born and is named Septimus, but the baby dies and the midwife goes away with the body. After that, Silas Heap finds a baby girl in the snow and he and his wife decide to adopt her to compensate their loss. Nine years go by, and they live their normal lives until the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, appears and tells them their adoptive daughter is the princess and an assassin is trying to find her to kill her…. that is where all the adventures begin.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Review]

Title: pride and prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Date published: January 28, 1813

Price: From $4 to $10 USD
Buy it: Amazon

Edition I read:

Orgullo y prejuicio (Spanish translation)

Publisher: Alfaguara

Translator: Alejandro Pareja Rodríguez

Date published: July, 2007

Pages: 382

Rating:

★★★★✩

Hello, this is my first review and I decided to do it of the last book I read, Pride and Prejudice by Jane

Mr. Darcy saying Elizabeth is not
 pretty enought to tempt him. 

Austen. This book is a romance classic; it's surprising that despite being published in 1813, it’s still quite popular and successful.

I think I’m one of few persons that read this book before watching any of its TV adaptations, so everything was new to me as I didn't have a clear idea of what the plot was about, I only knew it was a romance novel.  I decided to read it because I don’t like that genre and I wanted to read something I’m not used to.

This novel is set during the change of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, and it mainly tells the story of the Bennet family. The Bennet’s consist of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia, whose ages range between 15 and 23 years old, and are all marriageable. The purpose of Mrs. Bennet is to marry her daughters to secure their future, because when her husband dies everything they have will pass to a cousin. They live their normal lives when a young man, with a considerable fortune, comes to town. That man is Mr. Bingley accompanied by his sisters, his brother in law, and his friend, Mr. Darcy. Mr. Bingley is a kind man and soon is interested in Jane, while Mr. Darcy is a proud and arrogant guy who ends up being despised by Elizabeth.

Things get more interesting after the arrival of Mr. Wickham at the military regiment; he is an old acquaintance and enemy of Mr. Darcy. Wickham and Darcy have different stories about how their enmity began, and Elizabeth will end up having to decide who is being honest. Is Wickham the victim and Darcy a monster? Or is Wickham a liar and Darcy the innocent one?