The Captive

Title: The Captive

Author: Scott O'Dell

Pages: 224

Time Took To Read: 2 days

Cover Rating: 4/5

Character Rating: 4/5

Plot Rating: 4/5

Overall Rating: 4/5

I LOVED this book!!! It is the first in "The Seven Serpents" trilogy... I originally picked this book because it was a story about the Mayans... they NEVER have actual novels about them.. and they fascinate me... So I really liked it... WONDERFUL book!!! Loved the characters, loved everything... I can't wait to read the next book!!! Till then!!!

Plot:

As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and is seduced by greed and ambition.

(sorry this plot is so short... that is all I found out when I read it... PLEASE DO NOT READ THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK!!!)

Sovay

Title: Sovay

Author: Celia Rees

Pages: 416

Time took to Read: 1 month

Cover Rating: 5/5

Plot Rating: 3/5

Character Rating: 3/5

Overall Rating: 3/5

I have to say I actually really liked this book.. but it took me forever to read because I was really busy and also it kind of got really slow during the middle... I mean I liked the whole idea of the book... but some of it, was a little slow... it lost my interest. I also did not like how in the book Sovay was supposedly SO beautiful... and yet she did not know it AT ALL!!! I found it kind of unrealistic.. because if you are beautiful you normally know it... even if it is just a little... I was also not so convinced with all the characters... These are the reasons that I could not give it a better rating... but all in all I liked it... If you have read other Celia Rees books you should read it...

Plot:

It’s England, 1783. When the rich and beautiful Sovay isn’t sitting for portraits, she’s donning a man’s cloak and robbing travelers—in broad daylight. But in a time when political allegiances between France and England are strained, a rogue bandit is not the only thing travelers fear. Spies abound, and rumors of sedition can quickly lead to disappearances. So when Sovay lifts the wallet of one of England’s most powerful and dangerous men, it’s not just her own identity she must hide, but that of her father. A dazzling historical saga in which the roles of thieves and gentry, good and bad, and men and women are interchanged to riveting effect.

Books 2009

These are a few of the books I read in 2009 that I enjoyed!!!

(Book name, authors last name)

1. The maiden of Mayfair, Blackwell

2. A Time for Dancing, Wills Hurwin

3. Bloody Jack, L. A. Meyer (read this one twice)

4. Robin Hood, Edith Heal

5. Where the Lilies Bloom, Clearer

6. The Ramsay Scallop

7. Bound, Donna Jo Napoli

8. Tiger, Tiger, Lynne Reid Banks

9. Just Ella, Haddix

10. The Transall Saga, Paulsen

11. The Diamond of Dury Lane, Julia Golding

12. Palace of Mirrors, Haddix

13. The Face on the Milk Carton, Cooney

14. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Orczy

15. Beastly, Alex Flinn

16. A Kiss in Time, Alex Flinn

17. Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet, Sheth

18. Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan

19. Crossing Stones, Helen Frost

20. Saving Juliet, Selfors

21. The Musician's Daughter, Dunlap

22. A Brief History of Montmary, Cooper

23. The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern

24.Pirates!, Rees

Bloody Jack

Title: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

Author: L. A. Meyer

Pages: 278

Days took to Read: 3

Cover Rating: 3/5

Character Rating: 4/5

Plot Rating: 4/5

Overall Rating: 4/5

I LOVE this book. I have already reviewed it on this site once, but I do not think I did it full justice. I read it this second time because in my book club we are to read the squeal to it, and I wanted to refresh myself (anyway)... I love the plot, with the whole, "I am really a girl pretending to be a boy" kind of thing.... (Side note: Is in not funny that a girl can pretend to be a boy without to much "I CANT BELIEVE THAT!!!!" Going on, and without it being perverted in anyway.. (back then anyway) yet a boy could not have dressed as a girl without being thought a total pervert.... hehe I find it funny, and I think the guys probably could not have dealt with being a woman... hehe... well anyway..) I also loved the nautical theme of this book, even if it was not a pirate book. I really liked it... and I recommend it!!!!

Plot:

Jacky Faber is used to fighting for survival. For an orphan on the streets of eighteenth-century London, every day starts with begging and ends with an empty stomach. But now luck is finally on Jacky's side-- a departing warship is taking on ships boys, and Jacky jumps at the chance to pursue pirates and riches beyond imagination.

There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret. This could be the adventure of her life--- If only she doesn't get caught....