Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline
Reviewed by Caleb Chang

REVIEW: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

ISBN#: 9780804190145

THE STORY: 

Ready Player One takes place in the future where virtual reality has taken over everyone’s daily lives, called the OASIS. Halliday, one of the creators of the OASIS, has just passed away and has left no one inside his will. Instead, he started the “egg hunt” inside of the OASIS. The rules are simple, there are three keys and three gates, and the first one to find the keys and pass the gates wins Halliday’s entire fortune. One riddle, for the first key, is announced to the public.

The House of the Scorpion

by Nancy Farmer

Reviewed by Anshika Yetchina

Fall 2021

REVIEW: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
ISBN#: 978-0-689-85222-0
REVIEWED BY: Anshika Yetchina


SUMMARY:
Matteo Alacran was conceptualized in a glass plate, and birthed by a cow. He isn’t boy or machine, but he still is scorned on all the same. A clone of the twisted but great El Patron, Matt was raised in the Big House, in the intersection of the United States and what used to be Mexico, by a servant named Celia and branded with “Property of the Alacran Estate" on his foot.

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Reviewed by Harvy Chang

Fall 2021

REVIEW: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

ISBN#: 978-0-307-88743-6

THE STORY:

Wade Watts, a young man, lives with his aunt in the mid-southern United States in the mid-2040s. In this time period, Earth is trashed, and people turn to the OASIS, a massive multiplayer metaverse, for an escape from the Earth. After the death of James Halliday, the creator of the OASIS, Wade is dedicated to finding the easter egg Halliday hid deep inside the metaverse before his death. Wade starts the search for the Copper Key, the first of six steps to finding the egg.

The Darkest Minds

Alexandria Bracken

Reviewed by Richard Zhang

Fall 2016

REVIEW: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

THE STORY:

When a disease known as IANN hits America, many of the youth die, leaving only a small percentage of children as the next generation. These remaining children are not normal, as they seem to have been given freakishly powerful traits and abilities. Each group of children is organized into red, green, orange, yellow, or blue, some being more dangerous than others. To control the remaining youth population, rehabilitation camps have been created, but the public doesn’t know the truth

1984

by George Orwell

Reviewed by Michael Zhao

Fall 2016

REVIEW: 1984 by George Orwell

ISBN#: 0451524934

THE STORY:

Winston Smith is a man who lives in London, now a city in Oceania, a new superstate formed when the United States absorbed the British empire. Oceania is ruled by a government with complete control over its citizens’ thoughts and actions, directed by the omnipresent Big Brother. The story begins on what Winston presumes is April 4, 1984, though he is unsure if he is correct due to the government continually rewriting history, which is also

Hollow City

by: Ransom Riggs

Reviewed by Bella Ishizaki

Fall 2016

REVIEW: Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

ISBN#: 978-1-59474-805-9

THE STORY:

Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends are fleeing with their headmistress to London. Attempting to find a ymbryne to help their headmistress, who is trapped in the body of a bird. Besides having to find a cure, they are also being hunted down by monsters called wights and hollows. After traveling on boat for what seemed like forever, they finally reach land. Only to be hunted down by hollows and wights again. The children seek refuge in a raided loop that has a bunch of peculiar animals in it. The children stay there for a little but then move on. They then stay with the gypsies for a while but then must board a train. Before they could