Mystic, being the third book in the Soul Seeker series, starts out with the ongoing problems of Cade (Dace's evil twin, literally) attempting to take over the Middle World and Lower World so that he may wreak havoc until he controls everything and can break into the Upper World as well. Cade is power hungry and egotistical. While Dace having just lost his soul in an attempt to save Daire, only to have her taken to the Upper World, is lost in the vast darkness of the Lower World.
When a young girl finds an object floating in the river she never thought that by picking it up she would have to make the biggest decision of her life. Clare has to decide whether to keep the object she found and save her father from death or just place it back into the river and let faith take over.
The book that I am reviewing is Belonging by Karen Ann Hopkins. The maturity level of this book is VERY high. The book contains a lot of graphic scenes about sex. If you are in 7th grade or below think about reading this book very thoroughly. I thought it was a very good book.
A boy gets killed and the suspect has gone missing. But is this a normal victim and a normal killer? No. Travis is a were-armadillo and Ruby is a were-cat. This paranormal mystery is told from three different points of view: Yoshi, a were-cat and Ruby’s brother; Aimee, a human; and Clyde, a were-possum. Travis’ ghost only reveals himself to Clyde and tells him the events of his murder.
Ben has been running his whole life, trying to escape the memories that he left in back in Wisconsin. Now a marine in Afghanistan, those memories have finally caught up with him. Instead of running he decides to write, recalling every fragmented thought, every gruesome detail that occurred the night Billy died. Immersing himself back into the dark world of a boy whose life changed from the moment he chose to help a grieving family and their son, Ben recounts every action, every word that drew his darkest demons to the surface and pushed him closer to the brink of insanity.
Plum Coyle is an interesting and poetic fourteen-year-old girl, ready to leave behind her childhood and embrace adulthood. Like many young teens, she is self-conscious and ready to explore the world on her own.
Jane is just like all the other girls in the island orphanage, a Jane with a number. Searching for her own name starts when she meets John who tells her that his real name is Nova. It turns out that the whole island has a lot more secrets other than names. Like the fact that she has magical powers and that she, just another orphan, is destined to save the whole island.
Sophie is a young teenage girl who thought her life was that of any teenage girl; that was until she found out she was a Greek goddess named Persephone. Sophie's memories of being Persephone came back to her slowly after she kissed a guy named Kai. Kai isn't just a normal guy though, he was the son of the Greek God of the Underworld, Hades. Theo is one of Sophie's best friends and is also a Greek God named Prometheus. Prometheus puts Persephone's goddess qualities into a human form when she almost died; Persephone becomes Sophie.
The book starts off with a boy named Alex that is always getting bullied by a kid named Jackson. One day a dog came and helped Alex. Jason got distracted with the dog so much that Alex hears a voice in his head that says “run”. Then he gets a weird book and necklace for his birthday. After he finds out the powers of the necklace he goes on an awesome adventure through time and Egypt, and finds out more than what his textbooks say. He gets beaten up badly helping a friend. Will he ever make it back to his own time?
