LitPick Review
In the book Aaden Bluestar: The Awakening, Aaden Green is just an everyday kid. He goes to school, watches baseball, and has normal friends. The only thing particularly special about him is that his father is a senator. Everything changes, though, when he tries to get his baseball out of a tree and gets struck by lightning.
Not many people know what was really special about that incident, other than he lived. Once he gets out of the hospital, he, his best friend Fleur, and his sister Tiffany discover the special powers that he had been given from being struck. These powers have given him the ability to do many extraordinary things. The strangest part, however, is the recurring dreams he has been having. In them, he dreams that he is flying in a spacecraft along with others not of Earth, but that couldn’t be real, could it?
Opinion:
I thought that Aaden Bluestar: The Awakening was a well thought out book. The plot was unique. I have never read a book about a boy who got powers from a lightning strike, and it was a really cool concept. Another thing that was interesting about it was the fact that it centered around today’s environmental issues and showed some ways that might help fix them.
However, I felt like this book repeated itself sometimes. It would say something, respond to it, and then say essentially the same thing again. Also, I couldn’t picture the characters as well as I would have hoped; I didn’t know the ages or most of the features of the characters. It wouldn’t have hurt to have flesh them out more.
I would recommend this book to ages 11 and up because the syntax and vocabulary are more for older kids. For example: “Naturally pretty, her anxious expression accentuated the intensity of her hazel colored eyes.” With plenty of action and danger, this book is sure to please many readers.
