The Hunger Games

     The Hunger Games is a dystopian series about the annual Hunger Games which is an event the upperclass watch for their enjoyment and the lower class play for their lives. Katniss is a resident of one of the lower class districts and she enrolls her name into the choosing to get food for her family. Katniss is too proud to do work for the lose her dignity to the guards and will not work for them. Katniss would rather chance the arena. Katniss' sister gets chosen by the Capitol to fight in the Games, Katniss decides that she cannot let that happen and takes her place as Tribute. Katniss risks her life to save her sister, but she has not given in to death yet and this story is an emotional fight for survival and food. This is by far Suzanne Collins best series and is a novel filled with violence and unrequited love.

Little Brother

     When one of Los Angles' major bridges is bombed, the Department of Homeland Security takes it upon themselves to capture anyone near the bomb site, including Marcus and his friends. They are all tortured for answers they could never have known and are eventually released after having been brutalized and humiliated in disturbing ways. When their captivity ends Marcus plans to take revenge on the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) for capturing them and not releasing their friend Darryl. His friends are scared of the repercussions of attacking a major governmental organization. Marcus spearheads an attack with followers he has collected on the internet who believe that the government cannot control our rights. The revolution he is leading is not aimed at starting an Anarchist society, but to give control back to the people, return their stolen liberty. They are trying to remind people that they don't have to deal with the security measures created for their "necessary security." They construct ways for friends to talk anonymously on the internet and create devices that confuse codes on credit cards to make the systems set up by the DHS believe an ordinary person is a terrorist. Little Brother is the best dystopian book there is and makes you realize that our liberty is slowly being consumed by over-encumbering safety measures.

*You can read this book for free on Cory Doctorow's website.

The Alchemist

     The Alchemist is about Josh and Sophie a pair of twins that possess auras of magic that mark them as the legendary twins. Josh and Sophie find themselves whisked away from there home by Nicholas Flamel the greatest Alchemist there has ever been and his wife Perenelle the Sorceress. The Flamels have been searching for a pair of twins that possess an aura of Gold and Silver for many centuries and many of the twins have died in the process of being Awakened. The Flamels are bringing the twins to a similar fate while being curtailed by the infamous Dr. John Dee, trying to steal a book that the Flamels have possessed for a very long time called the Codex. With this book he could raze humans and bring about the age of The Dark Elders, the masters that have kept him alive to follow their orders. The Alchemist is an adventurous and fantastical journey that travels throughout religions of all kinds, borrowing interesting ideas from each one, coalescing  a very diverse series.