What will you be doing for spring break? Nothing special planned? How about curling up with a good book? The Virtual Popstar community has recommended some of their favorite books! Who knows, maybe you'll like them just as much as they did!
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
At 16, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a three-year stage IV–cancer survivor, is clinically depressed. To help her deal with this, her doctor sends her to a weekly support group where she meets Augustus Waters, a fellow cancer survivor, and the two fall in love. Both kids are preternaturally intelligent, and Hazel is fascinated with a novel about cancer called An Imperial Affliction. Most particularly, she longs to know what happened to its characters after an ambiguous ending. To find out, the enterprising Augustus makes it possible for them to travel to Amsterdam, where Imperial’s author, an expatriate American, lives. What happens when they meet him must be left to readers to discover. Suffice it to say, it is significant. Writing about kids with cancer is an invitation to sentimentality and pathos—or worse, in unskilled hands, bathos. Happily, Green is able to transcend such pitfalls in his best and most ambitious novel to date. Beautifully conceived and executed, this story artfully examines the largest possible considerations—life, love, and death—with sensitivity, intelligence, honesty, and integrity. In the process, Green shows his readers what it is like to live with cancer, sometimes no more than a breath or a heartbeat away from death. But it is life that Green spiritedly celebrates here, even while acknowledging its pain.*
-DUH *Summary from booklist
Dragon Hunter by Cornelia Funke
Firedrake and Ben are dragons that live in an abandoned cave with a rat named Sorrel. A storm is coming their way and as the cave is in the middle of the field, they conclude that it will be flooded and they will have to find a new place to live for the second time. They decide to go to the Rim of Heaven since it will be forever safe there, but it is a long fly away from the cave they live in now. As they go through the city, they meet a young boy and that helps them go on an unforgettable adventure to the Rim of Heaven.
-Christina
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear...*
Reader comment: This was simply amazing! It truly captivated me and I felt like I was in the world of Ixia myself. 5/5 for sure. Good for fantasy lovers.
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