The 100 by Kass Morgan is an interesting book that held my attention very well. The book has some plot elements and such that are not entirely new to YA Science Fiction, but are entertaining nonetheless, and I found myself pretty engrossed in the story. I think it had plenty to do with the characters that Morgan has created because I found myself liking them quite a bit.

Interestingly, the author chose to use an alternating point-of-view structure for the story - which I love - but she used four points of view. Now, this may turn off some people and an argument can certainly be made that it may be too many viewpoints at the same time, but I believe that the author is trying to set up her story and I think that each of these viewpoints brought something entirely different to the table.

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This book wrenched me out of my chaotic, stressy, unorganised life and into a whole new one; the life of Jacob as he journeys to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. His entire family life is shrouded by a feeling of mystery and almost spookiness. Yes, I was kept up quite late at night, having a heart attack every time the bed creaked, or even worse, when the Divergent poster fell down on my head. You don't recover from something like that.

You could tell that every part of the book was thought out carefully, which resulted in a generally beautiful thing. The vintage photos, which must've taken so long to find, worked amazingly well with the original and gripping writing style.

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In a dystopian world ravaged by war, there is a split between the Reds, poverty-stricken commoners with red blood, and the Silvers, those with unimaginable powers, their silver blood marking them as the ruling class.

Mare Barrow is a regular 17 year old Red who is about to turn 18 and because she doesn’t have any special skills who would allow her to get a job in this strict, stratified society, she knows she will be conscripted into war just like her brothers before her.

But one night, just as Mare is succumbing to despair, she meets a mysterious stranger who arranges for her to get a job inside the Silver Palace. On the most important night around the Silver succession for the throne Mare discovers she too has powers, powers that suddenly appear in front of the most important Silver individuals in the whole kingdom.

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Wow. I really don't know what else to say.

Well, maybe this:

Have you ever read a book so beautiful it physically hurts? A book that has you laughing one moment, crying the next? A book that makes you feel every single emotion the character does? Delirium is that book.

As I read, I found my eyes were prickling with tears, even as I felt like smiling at some little thing in the plot. It's left me with an ache, a longing, a need for the next in the series. I have to know what happens.

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A post-apocalyptic novel, The City of Ember begins with The Builders, who created an underground city that would save humankind from an assumed environmental catastrophe. The city was to last for 220 years, at which time they hoped it would be okay to return to the surface. They created Instructions to leave Ember, which they gave to the Mayor, to be passed down to every Mayor until it was time; the box containing the Instructions would then open.

The box was lost after the seventh Mayor tried to force the box open.

In the year 241, the City of Ember is failing. They are running out of food and supplies and there are rolling blackouts that last for longer stretches each time.

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