Thursday, September 19, 2013

Taken (Taken #1) by Erin Bowman

Synopsis:
There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.

They call it the Heist.

Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.

Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side
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I really enjoyed this book. It was a good book.
Lots of the twist and things happening you could see coming. Which wasn't really bad I think because I felt like it covered up the cheesy-ness of the other things that happened. The things that just are usually cheesy and pretty common in books like this. Like finding a lost one or someone you don't expect or something being overly convenient. And I think that knowing that some things were going to happen, it made you look for the signs of what was going to happen missing other signs. It also miss how cheesy and over done some things were and how convenient one or two things seemed. So I believe it really worked out and it made this book surprisingly great.
I Like Gray's Character a lot! He is very curious and is has a lot of determination to look for answers and get what he wants.
Also let me say what a messed up situation they are in. All the places that have people taken away that is messed up but they don't really know how messed up. What Gray finds out is horrible and I really hate Frank's Character even though I kind of see why Frank is doing it. Still pretty twisted

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