Customer Review - Eragon

Eragon
by Christopher Paolini [j Paolini]

The book starts out with a discription of an elf named Arya riding through the forest and she appears to be carring a very important object. A shade, or a bad warlock, named Darza attackes Arya and trys to take the object but she uses magic to transport it far away. On the other side of the country a boy named Eragon is tracking a deer when a burst of blue fire scares the doe away. When the smoke clears he sees an oval shaped blue rock. He goes around trying to find out what it is but no one seems to know. One night the rock began to move and out popped a little baby dragon. As Eragon raised Saphira, his dragon, a local storyteller named Brom started to take a particular intrest in what happened to his rock. After a while the town started to become suspitious of Saphira and two creatures called the Raz'zac came and scared Eragon and Saphira enough to leave. Brom came with them after explaining that he could help. So they set off on a journey to kill the Raz'zac but there are a few complications, Eragon feels compelled to rescure a beautiful elf from a near by town, Brom doesnt think that is a good idea. When they go to resure her Brom is stabbed and a man named Murtagh saves Eragon. After a few days Brom ends up dyeing and since Eragon doesnt know exactly what to do he ends up headed to find the Varden along with Saphira, Murtagh, and the sick elf. It takes a long time but they finally reach the Varden and for some reason Murtagh is put in prison. When Eragon askes why they say its because he is the son of an evil man named Morzan. There is little down time though because almost as soon as they get to the Varden a bunch of creatures called the Urgals attack. The only way the Varden ended up winning was because, with the help of Arya (the elf Eragon had saved) and Saphira, Eragon killed Darza whom seemed to be controling the Urgals. -- review submitted by Whitney L. - a customer of the Gere Branch Library

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Customer Review - The Boy Who Grew Flowers

The Boy Who Grew Flowers
by Jen Wojtowicz [jP Wojtowicz]

This was a charming little book about a boy who lived up in the mountains with his odd family. I say odd because his uncle tamed wild snakes and his brothers where shape shifters. His mom even used a bowling bag as a purse! Now Rink, didn't have any of those strange talents but by all means he wasn't normal either. His talent was that during every full moon he sprouted flowers all over his body. He met a girl at school who's left leg was a whole inch shorter that her right one. Rink liked this girl so much that he went home and took some of his uncles snakes left over skin and made shoes and the left foot had a heel one whole inch taller that the right one. He presented the shoes to her and she loved them, as they danced they told each other about their families. At last Rink told the girl about how he sprouted flowers every full moon. Instead of being grossed out like he thought, she laughed and liked him even more. Towards the end of the book, it stated that the two have been married for 25 years and had 7 kids. Rink has been making the girls shoes ever since. -- review submitted by Whitney L. - a customer of the Gere Branch Library

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Two New Customer Reviews - City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
by Cassandra Clare [YA Clare]

The book was really good. With the book being in a series, this being the first book, you could sense that there would be a love triangle in a later books without anything happening with it in the first. The ending was totally expected and made you want to read the series. -- review submitted by Taylor J. - a customer of the Gere Branch Library


The Book started with Clary (the main character) going into a club in brooklyn. She sees a couple of kids and follows them. Whats peculiar is that her best friend Simon doesn't seem to be able to see them. The kids go into a small room and MURDER a boy with blue hair! Her experiences only get wierder when a couple days later her mom calls her in a panic sayihng not to come home no matter what. One of the kids that had killed the boy at the club came and said they needed to talk. It turns out there is a whole world out there that Clary's mom was a part of that Clary herself was never aware of! The world of the Shadowhunters, or demon-hunters. Now Clary has to learn all about this world she was thrust into and try to save her mom from the evil Valentine. -- review submitted by Whitney L. - a customer of the Gere Branch Library

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