Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathon Stroud

After a short while (Ok a long one) I got through this very large tome of a book. It started off really well as all the Bartimaeus Books do, you have the layout of the actual book as the chapters switching from character to character, like all the other books, so far so good. Then you get some brilliant surprises that make the book really interesting. Again, this book is still going pretty strongly, the only letdown of this book though is the end. Obviously it is the end of the trilogy so the book has to be ended one way or another, but still- Having the epilogue before the final chapter is never going to make an ending 100%, and then in a one paragraph long finale having one of the three main characters being killed, then afterwards having nothing else to explain what exactly happened because it's hard to make out in a rushed paragraph- just makes this book disappointing.

6/10. The others are better

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Comments

Gone - Michael Grant

As thrilling as the Hunger games I'd say! This is an electrifying read! For older children, the gone books in order are: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague and Fear. You won't want to put it down, I didn't anyway! Michael Grant is a seriously good author and he also has a new book called bzrk. I rate this fabulous novel 10/10 A fantastic read!

Journey To Jo'burg - Beverley Naidoo

This was a novella My class read in school, and to be perfectly honest; for a fiction book it was very dry and just far too 'non-fiction' for a fiction book. So for me, this book was sadly a no. It had a lot in it for a novella, and I can see why we read it in class, especially for English. But unfortunately it just didn't have that 'humph' if you get what I'm talking about. 3/10 For me this wasn't a fiction it was a non-fiction, despite what the cover says...

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

This is the best book I've read in a while and I must say I'm quite impressed. I was gripped to the story during the first minute of reading. An amazing plot. An amazing style of writing, I just loved this amazing book! 10/10 I can't wait to read the sequel 'Clockwork Prince'

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