Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl. A child genius who finds the fairy race, makes a lot of money and outwits his foes. In this book however you might say he has met his match, himself.

After disappearing for three years, Artemis returnes home to find he has two brothers and a sick mother. His mothers health continues to decrease and has only hours to live. So as you would expect Artemis calls in the "Calvary", the faires. They soon find that Artimes' mother has a old fairy apedemic that killed heaps of people, brought devestation to everybody, caused world wide panic and... you get the idea. The only place that has the cure for the disease is the past, so guess what Artemis and Holly do? They go to the past.

The Time Paradox is a typical Artimes Fowl book that gives you some action while also building and developing the characters. There are some clever plots even if the time paradox thereoms may confuse some younger readers. A well writen book that shows a new side to Artemis.

Cherub:The General by Jack Muchamore

I love the cherub series. Why? Because it is action-packed, witty, funny and brilliant, all put into one. Yet the last book, Sleep Walker was in my opinion terrible compared to the rest. So I wondered, has Cherub had its time now into it's 10th book? But as I started to read The General the old Cherub came out and reminded me of the first few books of the series.

The General is about James and all the main characters going to a American training facility and playing out the terrorist's. The Ukrainian, American hater, Cherub trainer comes along as well and the party kicks off. The story has a few jokes and plenty of action making the cherub series proud.

P.S: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK WHEN YOU HAVE LOTS OF HOMEWORK TO DO BECAUSE YOU CAN'T STOP READING IT.

Peak by Roland Smith

An action-packed adventure about friendship, sacrifice and risking everything for Everest. That was the publishers review, and Peak is basically that. It's about a teenage boy who gets caught climbing a skyscraper, you know, like we all do. He is faced with the choice of going to live with his father in Thailand or Juvenile detention. As you would expect he chooses to live with his father. The only thing is that his dad wants him to be the youngest person to climb Mt.Everest.

The story has lots of suspense and you seem to be one of the characters, which is good. The real life facts about climbing I found interesting but some bits in the story made my teeth grind. An easy book to get into with it's fair share of action, Peak makes a good read for ages 12-15.

Money Run by Jack Heath

Jack Heath has written a third novel called Money Run. This story is about two teenagers, a hit man, the government and a very smart billionaire. As soon as I heard of this book I wondered would it live up to the expectations of his other popular books, The Lab and Remote Control and after reading it, I can say it did. This book starts with action and then there's some more action and then guess what, more action again. I found that even though it was interesting and well written it was a bit to fast with no real introduction but a few glimpses of the characters past life. It's not until near the end that you start to think that you know the character, but that was in my opinion the only major floor in this story. There are lots of complicated problems in this book that characters have to work out, but the reader, from past chapters knows the answer to them. Yet that character has the answer to a question that the other character does not know. Its like a murder mystery, but there's no murder and you don't know what your trying to work out (it's confusing but interesting). Everything is explained in the end and they give you some time to marvel at Jack Heath's genius before the 24 hour story is concluded. After reading it, though there are some problems, I found that it was a great and interesting book that I will happily recommend to anybody who likes the other Jack Heath books, Anthony Horowitz or the Keys to the Kindom series.