Drawn by Cecilia Gray

DRAWN BY CECILIA GRAY

 

 

PLOT:

A wholly original tale of friendship and betrayal through the eyes - and lies - of one extraordinary girl.
Sasha has a secret - that she can make you spill your secret with nothing more than a question. Her strange gift makes her a burden to her foster family and a total freak of nature. Not that Sasha cares. Why should she when no one cares about her?
Then the CIA knocks on her door. They want to give Sasha a new identity and drop her into a foreign country to infiltrate a ring of zealous graffiti terrorists. They want to give Sasha something to care about.
To survive a world where no one is who they seem, Sasha needs to make people trust her. But when that trust blossoms into love, Sasha is forced to decide between duty and friendship, between her mind and her heart, and whether to tell the truth or keep her secrets.

REVIEW:
I thoroughly enjoyed 'Drawn'. It has a unique concept and was pulled off well. I found the comic strips at the start of each chapter to be fun and quirky. Overall I found 'Drawn' to be a little bit short at 157 pages, but the story/plot was well executed.

~LW



 

The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner

THE MAZE RUNNER BY JAMES DASHNER

 

 

PLOT:
Book 1:
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift. Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

Book 2:
The Gladers have escaped the Maze, but now they face an even more treacherous challenge on the open roads of a devastated planet. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. Can Thomas survive in such a violent world?

Book 3:
Thomas knows that Wicked can’t be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they’ve collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It’s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. What Wicked doesn’t know is that something’s happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can’t believe a word of what Wicked says. The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine. Will anyone survive the Death Cure?

Review:
I got my copy of 'The Maze Runner' for Christmas. I started it on Boxing Day and finished it a few days later. I love the first book in the series, it was fast paced and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked that the story didn't focus on the relationship between Thomas and Theresa, which is quite different as many of the books I read are a romance of sort.
I ordered the second book in the trilogy 'The Scorch Trials' immediately after I finished 'The Maze Runner'. I found it to be fairly dragging, they were walking through a desert pretty much throughout the entire book. It was good though as the action that there was, was gripping.
I ordered 'The Death Cure' at the same time I ordered 'The Scorch Trials', thinking that if 'The Scorch Trails' was as good as 'The Maze Runner', I would need the trilogy's finale soon. I started 'The Death Cure' and as soon as I did I felt it to be unnecessary and a filler, just to make the series a trilogy instead of a pair. I struggled through 15 chapters, before thinking I should read something I actually want to read. I didn't finish this book, it sits on my shelf, still with my bookmark inside.

~LW