Between Shades of Gray

Between Shades of Gray  By Ruta Septys

***** 5/5 stars   Historical Fiction

In  the summer of 1941, being arrested by the Soviet secret police is the furthest from Lina's mind. When it does happen, Lina and her family are dragged from their home and put to work in Siberia.  Her father is separated from the family.  Lina desperately tries to contact him in different ingeniuous ways. She also works to preserve a record so that people will know what happened and so it won't happen again. This is a book you will not easily forget.


            

Matched

Matched  By Ally Condie

***3/5 stars  Science Fiction

I gave this book three stars because so many books are like this one. There is always the dystopian world and the love story. Is it so hard to be creative? This book was so similar to The Giver by Lois Lowry, and that was much better. Of course everyone likes this type of story, including me, but after you read this type of story over and over again, you get really bored.

            For those who are not bored with this type of story, it is about a girl named Cassia. She lives in the future where the Society dictates everything in the perfect world that they created. The officials--the police in this story--decide who you will marry, what your job is, and when you die. Cassia has just been given her Match, her childhood friend Xander. She is also given a microcard. The card tells her everything that she needs to know about Xander. While Cassia is looking at a picture of Xander on the screen, another face flashes on it. The face is Ky Markham, another boy that Cassia knows. Cassia is faced with the hard decision of choosing to marry Ky and Xander.

Life as We Knew It

Life as We Knew It  By Susan Beth Pfeffer

***** 5/5 stars   Science Fiction

When a meteor hits the moon bringing it closer to Earth, life as Miranda knew it is gone forever. Tsunamis, volcanoes, and floods are unleashed as every day becomes a fight to stay alive.
            The first book in this trilogy was very good, 5/5 stars. The second was okay, 4/5, but by the third I was wondering why I was reading it. You should definitely read the first, but I don't think you should read the second and third. I was reading it just to find out what happened to the characters, but the ending was a disappointment.