Bobby+Dearden

=2nd quarter blog- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare=

#4-Final Blog-January 5, 2011
First I have to say that it is really weird having to put 2011 instead of 2010. Next, about my book. It is getting really good. Tessa has already met most of the Shadowhunters, but when she wakes up in the middle of the night on her first night there, and she hears the music coming from one of their rooms. She finally gets to meet the last of the Shadowhunter family, but he is really ill, and she is made to swear not to tell the he is so ill. That part kinda scared me a little bit. I didn't understand why she couldn't tell until I read further in. I won't ruin it for the rest of you. Anyway, we learn a little bit of information about Tessa's brother. We learn where he worked. Two of the Shadowhunters go and talk to the man who owns the company, and learn that he knows they are Shadowhunters and that he was expecting them. It scared me because normal people don't know about the existence of the Shadowhunters, which means either he is a friend or a foe.

#3 December 6, 2010
This next blog starts with a question. Why? Why would the Dark Sisters take Tessa and her brother, Nate captive? Because Tessa has a gift, a very special gift. She can change her appearance into that of someone else, she can become someone else. It's scary because we find out later that she is the only known person to do this. She eventually is rescued unexpectedly by a person who didn't mean to really rescue her. Just happened to find her there in the Dark house. They battle the Dark Sisters on the way out. One is killed, the other wounded and retreating to an unknown place. Tessa is taken to a new place where she is treated better, and meets the Shadowhunters. I like this book this week because there was a lot of action, a lot of fighting. I say to the book Why? because it confuses me. Where? because there is still information i want to know that hasn't yet come up. They have only just started to look for Nate. In the meantime, though, they are after a group of people who want to be wizards and warlocks. The group is called the Pandemonium club. I have relations to this because the Pandemonium club is an actual teenage club in the Mortal Instruments series, which is the series that follows this. That's where the main character in that book finds her Shadowhunters.

#2 November 18, 2010
===Within the past couple weeks, I have continued to read my book, Clockwork Angel. Most people say that it's hard to first start a book. Some people even quit books because they aren't eventful enough for them right away. Well this book is exactly the opposite. Right away, you can tell this book is going to be good, if you have read this author's fantastic work before. We start out in London, where Tessa has come to meet her brother. She had been living with her now deceased aunt after her parents had died. Now she was to live with her brother. He said he would meet her at the docks when her ship came in, but he wasn' there. Instead he sent two trusted women called the Dark Sisters. But the dark sisters have a twist to them... they have taken Tessa's brother captive and will kill him unless she does as they say.===

===After a few weeks of reading this book it has come to my attention that the characters are just a little strange. Even after Tessa is saved from the Dark House, she is taken in by weird shadow hunters. But i thought the same thing in City of Bones, and turned out to love reading about them, to hear their sides of the story. To hear their story, the story behind why they are the way they are.===

#1 November 4, 2010
===This next quarter i will be blogging about Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare. I have already read a couple of her books- the Mortal Instruments series. I really liked this series, it was fully of action and intense family drama. I personally liked the fact that it keeps changing facts about the characters. One minute the main character thinks she has a normal life. Then her mom goes missing and her place is trashed. Then she finds some people like her and her mother, whom she finds out was brought to an evil creepy dude who is trying to take over their world as they know it. Her mom awakens from the coma she is in and her daughter her daughter isn't even happy to see her, or at least she doesn't show it. She is mad at her mom for not telling her about who she really is. If interested, I have the first two books, City of Bones and City of Ashes, or you can find them in the library.===

===Anyway, that's how I found the author. This new book is part of a prequel to the Mortal Instruments series. The series is called the Infernal Devices series. The book, shown above, looks very interesting. Going off what I got from the last series, it should be very interesting. I already know, based off the intro to it, it is based in the earlier times, definitely before modern times and before the Mortal Instruments series.===

=1st quarter blog- First to Die by James Patterson=

#1
===First to Die, by James Patterson. This book was given to me by my Uncle. In this book, the main character, Lindsay, is a police detective working on a homicide case. A couple who had just been married was in their suite doing what married couples do, wishing good luck to the marriage. There was a knock on the door and the groom decided to answer. There was a man there, Phillip Campbell, and he had a bottle of wine for the couple. After talking for a second or two, he stabs the groom, and then steps in the room. The bride comes out of the bathroom and he kills her, too. It then flips to Lindsay, who is in Dr. Orenthaler's office. He tells her that she has a rare disease, Negli’s Aplastic Anemia, which robs the body of its ability to transport oxygen, and has to have transfusions of blood to try and reverse it. I like this book because it is full of excitement, something new always turning up on each page. This book makes it seem like this actually happened, which it didn’t. I like how the murderer has to think about what he is doing before he does it. Almost like he can’t believe he is doing it. I cannot wait to read the rest of the book.===

#2
===Hey this is Bobby and this is my second blog post on First to Die. I have been reading a lot, and if you are queasy you won’t want to read this. So far, our detective and her friend in the autopsy lab have concluded one gross conclusion: he does things post-mortem to the dead bride. We find the second murdered couple in the act when he killed them, if you know what I mean. The detectives in Napa, where the first body was found, didn't know what to look for. But Claire, who works in the autopsy, knows just what to look for, and found it. He is also stealing the wedding rings, as is concluded by the detective, Lindsay, when she goes to the second area where the bodies were dumped. This book is full of excitement. I like how the character Lindsay is a big time detective but still breaks the rules. I hate it though how she doesn’t want to tell her best friend that she has that awful disease.===

#3
===Hey it's Bobby Dearden and I have just now finished reading the book First to Die by James Patterson. In this book, p.450, Lindsay calls her partner, Chris Raleigh, the First to Die, a.k.a. the title of the book. I thought the title meant the sequence of murders that take place, so that was a total twist. It turns out Phillip Campbell was actually a writer named Nicholas Jenks, and he wasn’t even the real killer. If I tell the real murderer, then what is the real point of reading this book? In the midst of all this, Lindsay is told that she was going to get over the Negli’s disease. She will get better! Most people don’t get better, they just let go and let the disease take them.===

===All in all this book has been pretty exciting- the forming of the Women’s Murder Club, the bond they each shared; the revealing of each of the murders and the murderer; it all ties into the making of this great novel.===