Sunday, October 29, 2017

Recommendation of the series The Demonata by Darren Shan

I'm so into scary books; I just can't help it. Tell me, don't you love the feeling of suspense running through your body, making you cringe, and predict the worse things coming for the characters of the story? Oh, but anything is never what it seems. If you like that feeling you should definitely read this series! The story is divided into 10 horrific books. The main character of the series is Grubitsch Grady also known as Grubbs, but in some books the main character would vary because there are books of the series that are told in first-person narrator from another character's perspective (a character who's not Grubbs). Through the story, Grubbs is in a constant struggle between his universe/world and The Demonata universe. In the beginning of life there was originally space only for the Old Creatures and the demons. The universe was divided into 64 sections, and there was no space for humans, but one of the Old Creatures made our world, and some demons didn't like that. Not everything is about demons and magic, there's drama too, and multiple antagonists, but over everything there's a lot of suspense. I highly recommend this series for someone that likes abnormal, scary, and weird stuff. I personally rate this book with a 9 out of 10. "Why a 9 and not a 10 Rachael?". Well, the series are awesome, but you got to pay close attention to the small details, or you won't be able to understand what is the story about. I got lost in the story a lot of times, I literally had to go back and reread the entire chapter to understand what was it about. If you're going to read this book, make sure you read it in a place where all of your attention will be on the story, well, do that with every book you read. I hope you enjoyed this blog.

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Sunday, October 1, 2017


Comment about "The Girl With All The Gifts" by M.R. Carey

This is the book that I've been reading and---

Melanie: What's this?
Me: This is a blog Melanie.
Melanie: Oh. Like the one that I helped you with the other time?
Me: Yes Melanie, now . . . please let me finish it.
Melanie: Alright.

As I was saying, this is the book I've been reading. It's a book that will literally play with your emotions. I'm not kidding. There was a time that I was reading and my mind started to make inferences out of what I was reading, and one of them was that one of the characters had committed suicide. I was literally crying, trembling, and walking around because I couldn't believe it. Then I---

Melanie: Aww. You cried with our story, and you haven't even finished.
Me: S-So? It was a really emotional part of the book. Plus, You would've cried if Miss J would had committed suicide.
Melanie: D-Did ... D-Did she...? WAAAAAAAA *cries really loud without stopping*
Me: I was just putting an example, Jeez! Calm down!
Melanie: *sobs*
Me: Plus, you're the main character! Shouldn't you know already how this story is going to end? I mean is your story after all.
Melanie: Yeah but for now. . .I only know what you know, and what you tell me.
Me: . . . Just let me finish this post please.
Melanie: . . .

Where was I?. . . Oh, yeah. I was astonished and with my mouth open, I couldn't keep reading, I was scared about what was going to happen next, but the intrigue won over the fear and I grabbed the book and started reading; my hands were trembling and my eyes filled up with tears as I kept reading.

Melanie: What a mix of emotions!
Me: Shh!
Melanie: Okay okay . . . *whispers* Jeez.


So...I kept reading, and found out that she didn't commit suicide. The "gun" that Helen was holding was a flare, and the red things were only flashes of the flare (but I thought it was Helen's blood). After reading that, I took a deep breath, looked at the ceiling and stared at it for at least 2 minutes, until I felt ready to continue reading.


Melanie: Can I talk now?
Me : No.
Melanie: Oh come on!!!
Me: Melanie, Shush!

The author includes a lot of imagery in the book, which means that he gives a lot of details about wherever the characters are, whatever they're doing, listening, eating, or touching.
The author will make sure you feel like you're a part of the story. There was a time I was reading, and they (the characters) were walking through a street, and they have to be really quiet so then the hungries didn't detect their location, not even that they (Helen, Gallagher, Caldwell, Parks, and Melanie) were there. One of my classmates asked me something and I yelled "Shhhhhh!" but not just because I was reading, but because I thought that if I wasn't quiet the hungries were going to find us (the characters and me). I apologized to my classmate after I finished reading. The author has me so into the story, and I think that if you give the book a chance, it will hook you into the story too.

Melanie: Can I please, please please talk now?
Me: Sure. I'm done.
Melanie: Well I just wanted to say that "We're not alone!".
Me: . . . They don't know---
Melanie: They'll have to read if they want to find out.
Me: True.
Melanie: Can I say "goodbye" with you?
Me: I don't say "goodbye".
Melanie: You got what I said!
Me: Hmm . . . Alright.
Melanie: 3
Me: 2
Melanie: 1

Me and Melanie: See you next time!