Variant (Variant #1) by Robison Wells

Synopsis:
Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.

Where breaking the rules equals death.

But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible

At one point I thought this would be a great book to read. Well let me just say it wasn't it was pretty bad. I mean it was okay but where was it trying to go? Nothing added up and I get that it wasn't suppose to but could they have made sense of anything?!?! It felt like the author didn't know what to do so he just made up anything. I mean maybe it was suppose to be like that, but a little explanation to one or two things would have made it easier to get threw this book. Make it feel less like a bunch of stuff just thrown together.
Also Benson was really boring. Some times I had to remember he was telling the story and not someone doing it from third person. He was really flat and I don't know there didn't seem to really be any conflicted for him with himself. He gets to this place then wants to go and that's pretty much it all he talks about is going going going going. That's all that seemed to be up with him. I was really sad with all the characters honestly I don't feel like we got to know any of them, which is something I would have really liked. 
It wasn't what I expected at all and I was really disappointed with this book.
Maybe the other books get better who knows, I really hope so but I may not decide to continue on with the rest unless I hear something at least half way promising on they get better

172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad

Synopsis:
It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space--and change their lives forever. Mia, from Norway, hopes this will be her punk band's ticket to fame and fortune. Midori believes it's her way out of her restrained life in Japan. Antoine, from France, just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible.
It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.
In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.

This book was creepy! I mean you think these three kids have a chance of a life time going to the moon. How cool is that? They will be famous, well know and get everything they could ever want or hope for.
Once getting there though it's like 'they should have stayed home.' 

172 Hours on The Moon keep me on my toes and turning the page, and a book that must be read down to the very very last sentence.

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?

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

The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner

Synopsis:
Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.

In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.

Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.

The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?

This was a good second book. Very well done though I think a lot of it kinda just came off as boring. I mean Thomas was always asleep, it seemed. Like always going in and out of sleep for days. Which wasn't bad but I felt that it could have more details or something.

I sorta wish that book was done from two different views any one else probably would have worked. Like someone in group B or one of the other guys. It probably would have made it more interesting. But not a bad book hope the third one ends a little better though.

Also I think some parts where explained to much. Like way to much to let your mind try and figure it out for yourself. It was like telling you how to feel almost, well that's how I felt with it. It just kind of made me a bit angry I guess I wished it was more explained in other places and less in some places. But the book worked out! 

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Synopsis:
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.

On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.

Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.

Heart Breaking! This is one pretty sad book not going to lie. But it is a spectacular read. We follow Clay threw getting a tapes from a girl who commit suicide a few weeks before and the 13 reasons why. Threw this book we get to know what Hannah went threw and why she decided to do what she did. We learn a lot about her. Also about Clay but i'll get into that later. Threw these tapes we learn who she was and who she was seen as by other people and they are pretty different images. Which is sorta major to this book.

Now I have heard some people say they didn't get to know Clay as much as they would have liked to threw reading this book. Honestly though what is there to know, good guy, gets good grades. Blah blah blah honestly his life is probably pretty simple and we just don't get that. It is interesting though to see how he deals with the information on this tapes and the people around him while listening to these tapes.

Honestly this book was one of the best books I have ever read and it makes you think. I think lots of people should pick up this book and read it. Even if you don't think you will like it read it. If you read it and you hate it? I would like to know. Yes I know some of you will hate this book like any thing there is someone who will like it and someone to hate it, but read it anyways.

Tell me what you think of this book or even my review.