Mazerunner

-book by James Dashner
 What exactly would you do if you can't remember anything  all of a sudden, including your name let alone your family?What would you do if you wake up in a small box which   opens up in a humongous place surrounded by walls?What would you do if people tell you that this jail is your home from now on? i would probably cry like hell, then cause some traumatic destruction and then curl up in a ball and die of exhaustion....but Thomas is different.
 As the name suggests and yes!! you guessed it right, this book is about a teenage kid who is on the track of saving the world starting off  by running in a maze.
Thomas wakes up in a place called Glade, which is a green giant place covered on all sides by concrete walls that close every night protecting them from Greivers (giant mechanised animals always in ready-to-kill mode), and quickly works his way up in status by becoming a runner but it is not as easy as it sounds.Once a runner, you have to run up and down in the never-stationary maze and try and find a way out of it to survive.
With them being tested at all the time by an organisation called WICKED, they are thrown upon by many challenges but all hell breaks loose when there only protection , the walls, fail to close at night ,exposing them to the Greivers....
Will Thomas really be able to find a way to run?Will they all survive? And the most importaant question of all, Why is all this happening to them?
With excitement gripping you at every page,read the book to find out all the answers.
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My Brother's Secret

- book by Dan Smith


Torn between the anger of his father getting killed in Russia 
 fighting for Hitler and the frustration of being housekept is
growing  in the little twelve year old Karl makes many
important discoveries.
1)His papa didn't want to leave him and go to war.
2)Being a part of the Hitler Youth is nothing to be proud of.
3)His brother is not an embarrassment to him.
4)Hitler is a bad man.
With his father dead at war, he is taken to his Opa and Oma (grandparents) and is housekept.He is rescued from loneliness by a girl called Lisa. Together they find out his brother's secret of him being in the Edelweiss Pirates and the ruthless killings that Wolff has been doing  and just as a family should stick together they decide on opposing the war.
The book is written well in perspective of a small child's feeling at the time on the war and how he thinks being a 12 year old will not make him a negligible contribution or is going to stop him.
If family relations and war themed books are your thing then this is a definitely a must-read for you.

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The Fire And Flood Series

- book by Victoria Scott

Would you fight a hopelessly outnumbered competition in terms of strength and mental ability just to save a loved one? Because a girl named Tella Holloway just did.

With her brother on the sick bed and lack of excitement in life Tella is seemed to be rescued by the strange piece of device that is telling her to reach at a place for she has been selected for the Brimstone Bleed. But what she is unaware of is that what she has taken for fun is a lethal and mind twisting game that will prove her love for her brother and her steel determination to win the cure for him.  

Fire And Flood takes us through  the first two phases of the competition - the forest and the desert

and the Salt And Stone shows us the second two phases - ocean and mountain. With excitement gripping you at every page this is a must-not-keep-down-till-you-finish kind of book.

Does the fiery haired;fun loving, self-pampering and purple-glitter nail paint loving Tella Holloway survive the four deadly arenas and get the cure for her loved one? Read the fire and flood series to find out!

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Beneath The Dark Ice

- book by Grieg Beck

If you are a person who daydreams about action heroes with ripping muscles and lethal strength; or commando missions to deadly locations; or weird science expeditions which lead to shocking discoveries; or if you are always up to an adventure then the next book that you should have in your hand should be : Beneath the dark ice.
Grieg Beck's first novel, beneath the dark ice is all about the deep, dark ice capped cave that is hiding a lot more than it reveals . With a team of scientists trapped in the cave, superhuman and HAWC member Alex Hunter and his team have a race against time to save whoever has survived and escape because they are not the only living thing that the cave hold  within itself.
The cave holds ancient life feared and worshipped by the old civilization and is now back again to feast on Alex and his team - after all, wont you be hungry after 10,000 years of fasting?
Will Alex and his team survive and make out before it is too late?

  

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The Dark Anatomy

- book by Robin Blake

   Just as the name of the book, this one does really keep you in darkness of what is actually going to happen. 

   The novel ,set in the 1700s, starts off with a ruthless murder of a woman, who goes by the name Dolores Brockletower, which is investigated by a man called Titus Craigg, the coroner(now called homicide detectives).The investigation forks into many roads none leading to any conclusion till the very last of the chapters literally!!!The murder of three more people of the town is sandwiched between the murder of Mrs. Brockletower and the finding of the culprit. 

   The whole duration of the novel gives you a feeling of eerie and it is made quite clear by the author that he wants the reader to view the novel to be relating to something supernatural. The main reason for the murder of Dolores was the fact that she was "different". The "difference" was in comparison to the other human beings which is not known even by the coroner for most part of the book. It was actually this difference which led the victim to meet her end  which is very well understood and perceived by the coroner and to be perceived yourself about the "difference" and the end of Dolores, you will have to read the book.

   With the clues meeting at no ends till the very end and the people dropping dead every now and then, the book gives the reader far more time to actually relate to the book in real life in this era (which is one of the things i like to do while reading a book).

   The fact that Dolores died was because of a difference that she lived with, which was too shameful for her and her husband to share with anybody. She was shamed and feared at the same time by everyone , including her husband. Something similar happens even now my opinion. There are people around the world with many deformities and physical problems which are looked down upon and are made to feel small and weak. It is nature that made them different and we have no right to judge nature in anyway in my opinion. Had people understood this back in the 1700s and had The Dark Anatomy been a real happening, Doloros Brockletower would have lived and died in her own time peacefully.Keeping everything in mind, if you have a knack for mystery novels and if you don't mind a slow read, then this one is a must read for you.

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