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The 100 by Kass Morgan

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Good morning everyone and Happy Monday! This week I finally decided to sit down and read the 100, which has been on my shelf for months. I have heard good things about the book and I believe it has even been made into a TV show (I don't watch a lot of TV). The first thing I found when I opened the book was that it was a lot shorter than I expected it to be. The hardcover book is pretty thicker, or a little thicker than most books, but when you actually look at the print it is big and double spaced so the book is twice as big as it needs to be. But this isn't always a bad thing. So let me tell you a bit about the book. You are seeing the stories being told from four different points of view. Clarke : After being convicted of treason on the spaceship floating just above Earth she is waiting until she turns 18 to be retried and most likely killed. She is told that, instead of being retried, she will be sent to Earth, which has been abandoned for over 300 years after a nucl...

Earth 5 by Hustin Lindenhall

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Good morning, afternoon, evening and night to you all! I hope your week is off to a good start. This week (which is really last week) I read Earth 5. At first I found it was a little hard to get into the story, but I found that after a few chapters I was really enjoying the story. That is the first thing you must know about this book.  Let me tell you a bit more about what to expect when reading: Hustin lives in a cabin on the hill behind his grandparents house. While his parents live far away he chooses to spend his time while not at school hiking the mountain paths around his cabin.  One day while on his hike he runs into a boy sleeping in the grass. The boy doesn't look like most boys his age. In fact he doesn't dress like boys his age and he doesn't even talk. Hustin isn't sure what to make of this strange boy so he invites him back to his cabin to eat a few apples from his grandmother's tree. Later that day a girl from school (who Hustin has a bit of a ...