NEW BOOKS NEW BOOKS NEW BOOKS!!!

Hi!
It's May 1st, and you know what that means...  FIVE BOOKS RELEASED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!

1. INSURGENT, by Veronica Roth

              This is the sequel to Divergent, and the second book in the Divergent Trilogy.  In the first book, you are introduced to Tris, who lives in dystopian Chicago. (Wow, it took me two readings of this book just to figure that out!)  The society has been split into five factions: Dauntless, Erudite, Candor, Abnegation, and Amity.  The Dauntless are daring, fearless, and... dauntless.  The Erudite are smart and knowledge hungry.  In Candor, you don't lie.  You are always honest, about everything. The Abnegation are selfless, they think only of others, never of themselves.  And in Amity, everyone is cheerful and kind.  When you are sixteen, as Tris is in Divergent,  you pick which one you live in for the rest of your life.
  
    2.    SERPENT'S SHADOW, Rick Riordan
  
                 The plot will be really rising in this book, (No, I haven't read it yet, I'm just predicting!) as Sadie and Carter Kane battle Apophis.  In this series, The Kane Chronicles, the Egyptian gods and goddesses are key characters.  The first book in this series is The Red Pyramid, and the second is The Throne of Fire.  This is the final book in this series!

    3.   THE FIRE ASCENDING,  by Chris d'Lacey

                   This is the seventh book in The Last Dragon Chronicles.  The books follow tenant David Rain, and the Pennykettle family.  I won't write a lot about this one, because it is the seventh book in a series, so I don't ruin the first book for future readers.  But the first book, The Fire Within, is about when David first moves into the Pennykettle family's house.  And how he finds their secret... and numerous clay dragons.

    4.    BITTERBLUE, by Kristin Cashore
      
                  Well, we really don't know the name of this series, (I believe that in the Coming Soon section it is labeled as "book #3 in the Fire/Graceling companion novel series thingy.")  but the first book is Graceling and the second book is Fire.  Graceling is about Katsa, who has a special power, and therefore a graceling.  Fire is about Fire, who is a monster, and is sort of a prequel to Graceling.  Bitterblue is about Bitterblue, and Katsa is in it too!  The characters in these books: Katsa, Po, Archer, Fire, Bitterblue, Leck, are wonderful characters, and each have their own distict personality, which I love!

     5.   THE INVADERS, by John Flanagan
  
                 This is the second book in the Brotherband Chronicles.  John Flanagan, the author, also wrote the Ranger's Apprentice series, which is one of my favorites.  The first book in the Brotherband Chronicles is The Outcasts, and is set in the same world that the Ranger's Apprentice series is, except the main setting is Skandia, not Araluen.  The first book is about eight Skandian boys who are competing in the Brotherband competition, as all boys do at a certain age.  But no one wants them in their Brotherband, so they form their own.

I cannot wait to read these!!!
~Bookworm