Insanity

Insanity
Cameron Jace
226 pages
Mad in Wonderland

Summary (Direct from Cameron Jace's website) http://cameronjace.com/books/insanity/

After accidentally killing everyone in her class, Alice Wonder is now a patient in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. No one doubts her insanity. Only a hookah-smoking professor believes otherwise; that he can prove her sanity by decoding Lewis Carroll's paintings, photographs, and find Wonderland's real whereabouts. Professor Caterpillar persuades the asylum that Alice can save lives and catch the wonderland monsters now reincarnated in modern day criminals. In order to do so, Alice leads a double life: an Oxford university student by day, a mad girl in an asylum by night. The line between sanity and insanity thins when she meets Jack Diamonds, an arrogant college student who believes that nonsense is an actual science.

Opinion:
We are in a mad world.  It is a fast-paced, semi-confusing book.The structure of the book is reflective on how mad Alice truly is, as well as the truths she uncovers every second. The whole book is over a period of about three days, but with as much stuff as Alice is doing it seems so much longer. The characters were definitely interesting, especially each Wonderlander's backstory. If the facts and places said in the book are true, then the world just gets crazier everyday. I want to see if there are little cat statues pasted on those churches around England. I have heard of a similar thing in York, England:

 

Cats are all the rage these days, but in the town of York, England they have been celebrating felines with a tradition of public cat statues for over a century.
With a strong concentration in the city center, the cat statues of York are scattered on eaves, rooftops, and chimneys all around the town. The original pair of metal felines date roughly to the turn of the century, and it is believed - though it's likely apocryphal - that they were designed to scare the rats from the nearby river.
Then, in the 1980's, architect Tom Adams commissioned sculptor Johnathan Newdick to create several new cat sculptures, and use the historic originals as inspiration for a new town tradition. Adams placed a cat sculpture somewhere on each of the buildings he designed in the area and soon other business and building owners started following suit, creating a new identity for the town and a small cottage industry of cat-related tourist shops.
There are now 22 cat sculptures throughout the city and many businesses offer maps of the "York Cat Walk." However due to constant theft and new additions to the public collection, many of the mousers listed on the maps prove as elusive as any real cat.

 http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cat-statues-of-york


There is mystery is who put up those cat statues, definitely not Lewis Carroll. Besides the book being really wild and a little scatter-brained, I think it was an interesting one. If you are ready for some deep thinking, then I recommend this book to you, But i don't think its a good idea to multi-task while reading this one, because you will be in for quite a headache. Be ready for a lot of questions and a series full of answers.

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P.P.S. If you want to know more about the York Cat Walk, here is their  official website: http://catsinyork.com/

Magyk

Magyk
Angie Sage
564 pages
Septimus Heap Series

Overview: From Amazon. com (http://www.amazon.com/Magyk-Septimus-Heap-Book-1/dp/006223692X)

The Magyk Begins Here
Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow—a newborn girl with violet eyes. Who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to the Heaps' beloved son Septimus?

My Opinion:

Magyk was cute. It was the epitome of fairy tale books.It had different switching points of view. All the characters were interesting as well. Its a great book for kids of the maximum age of 12. I just wish the book spent more on this royalty. That was the part that truly hooked me.

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Free to Fall

So sorry that it has been 3 long weeks since my last post. School has picked up, causing me to not have a chance to read books and review them. Luckily, I have some free time today! :)

Free to Fall
Lauren Miller
473 pages 

Summary: From Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Free-Fall-Lauren-Miller/dp/0062199811)

From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes drama set in the near-future.  Imaginative and thrilling, this "intricately plotted, intellectually rich thriller...will please a range of readers, from those searching for a page-turner to those wishing to thoroughly engage the mind." (Publishers' Weekly, starred review)Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is to follow what the app recommends. When she's accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going her own way, questioning Lux and listening instead to the inner voice she's been taught to ignore--a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.

My Opinion:
This book made me free to fall into my feelings. Anticipation, worry, and satisfaction were my top 3 feelings. I was in love with Rory and North. Sure she was difficult at times but when you life begins to tilt upside with no warning i think you are allowed to have several messed-up days. North was her calm in the storm and his other persona is sooo cool. Why cant I have that type of super smart bad boy imaginary boyfriend? I always knew Hazel was a little too much; but when her truth was revealed, I loved seeing this other Hazel. Dr. Taurus was interesting as well. Also, i noticed mid-through the book that she was given an ethnicity. Interesting right? Liam was okay. He was pretty much just filler to me.  As you can tell, i had a deep love or hate for all the characters

Overall, this book was good. It drew me in and wouldn't let me put it down. I liked this world the author built. My question though is if it is supposed to parallel ours, because it is only in 2030, why were event in 2013 off a little bit. Some of the timeline seemed a little off-kilter. Besides my interest in dates,i really enjoyed this book and i recommend for you to read it as well.

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P.P.S This is a Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Book.