Robert Muchamore: CLASS A

James Adams was a Cherub agent, a British children undercover police.  He was on mission to infiltrate the drug gang KMG with Nicole, Kerry and Kyle.  They were told to befriend with Keith Moore’s children, children of KMG leader.  At last they succeed and Keith was caught for being a drug dealer.

Through this book, it told us to resist temptation through Nicole.  She was tempted to snort cocaine by Junior Moore and snorted it while James almost snorted but did not.  Then, Nicole got sick and was found snorting cocaine and was expelled while James stayed. Being a Cherub agent, you cannot keep a friendship between people you met during your mission.  It’s really a hard job to do that when you met a great friend or maybe your friend is injured.  During the mission, James met Junior and became great friends.  However, in the end of the mission, they got into a fight with some of Keith’s supplier.  James managed to escape and called John, a M15 agent while Junior was badly injured.  In order for James to be safe and to keep his identity secret, he then was quickly sent back to Cherub campus and could never visit the injured Junior again.  It was really sad to leave something you like, but sometimes you need to do that in order to do a more important thing.  

It is very interesting to see children being spies and how they deal with different targets.  Also, it is very exciting to see how they fight with them.

James Dashner: MAZE RUNNER

One of the themes of this book is to trust one another.  When Thomas first entered Glade, Gally and Ben, who had gone through the Changing (a process which would heal somebody who was stung by a Griever while their memories will be bought back), both said that Thomas was bad.  Then, Alby was stung by the Griever and went through the Changing.  Actually, brave Thomas ran to the maze to help Minho and sick Alby just before the walls closed though he knew that he would be killed and would maybe be eaten by the Griever.  Luckily, they all survived and as Thomas was heroic, he was not killed, but was put in the Slammer, which was like a prison, for one day. 

            Also, I understand that co-operation is very important.  Like the last part when Thomas and Teresa need to go to the Griever Hole to type in the code in order to get out of Glade, all the other Gladers need to fight the horrible Grievers or even sacrifice themselves in order to help Thomas Teresa to get into the Griever Hole.  Alby, their leader is one of the greatest examples.  A few days before their escape, Gally came and said that the Griever would pick and kill one of the Gladers.  Alby thought that the Griever would just pick on one of them and let the others in, so he threw himself towards the swarm of gigantic Griever and just let them kill him.  Unluckily, he was wrong and at last the Griever killed half of them.  I was even shocked when Chuck, Thomas's best friend, sacrificed himself for Thomas when Gally threw a dagger towards Thomas.  Chuck was like Thomas's shield dived in front of him to protect him.  It was really touching. 

            This book is the best one ever.  I love it very much.  Every bits of this book contains surprises you will never expect.

Gregg Olsen: BETRAYAL

This book talks about the investigation of the murder of Olivia Grant.  Firstly, Gregg Olsen, the author, told us how Olivia was killed in the Halloween party.  Throughout all the investigation, it was told that Brianna was the prime suspect in everyone’s eyes, but when Brianna was found killed, people at first thought she committed suicide.  They were wrong and it was Drew who killed her and he killed her for Brianna’s mom, whom he had loved.

Through this book, Gregg Olsen told us what betrayal is which is found that actually Brianna’s mom wanted to murder her daughter just for the sake of the insurance money after her death and she asked Drew, Brianna’s boyfriend to murder her at Halloween.  However, Drew mistook Olivia as Brianna and killed her instead.  Then, he tricked Brianna into escaping and strangled, tortured her to death.  I was really shocked to see that Brianna’s mom, who left the family for another husband, betrayed her daughter just for money.  Also, due to her selfishness, innocent Olivia was killed by mistake. 

Also, this book taught us not to see people by appearance.  Though Brianna act if she didn't care about the murder and everyone thought that she was the killer, but unexpectedly it’s her mom.

The way Gregg Olsen wrote in the eyes of Olivia Grant at the murder scene made me feel totally into the book and also made me curious on the murderer.  The plot of this book is also really marvelous as it created an ending of which is unexpected.  Therefore, I really love Betrayal and hope you can enjoy it too.