Life of Pi

Life of pi, by Yann Martel is a fantasy, adventure novel, but with a hidden thought-provoking theme that was only revealed at the end. The novel follows a teenage, indian boy called Piscine Patel (Pi) son of a zoo owner and his adventure at sea. In the beginning he is just an ordinary teenager, except he is a Hindu, Christian, Muslim. His experiences growing up with animals (his father is a zoo owner), his family, and his faiths are the main topic of the first part. His family decides to immigrate to Canada, bringing most of their zoo animals with them to sell in North America. They board a cargo ship, but the ship sinks, and Pi spends a total of 227 days floating in the Pacific Ocean, with a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger for company. The first three animals die one by one, but the tiger and Pi survives until they float and reach the Mexican shores. This is the longest and in my opinion, most gruesome part of the book.In the end of the novel, Pi is interviewed about his traumatic experiences and the truth is uncovered.
I recommend this novel to anyone who is interested in adventure and suspense. Throughout the book I really felt empathy for the main characters and although i cannot relate to the experience i felt some of the emotions they where experiencing. Overall a great novel, winner of a Man Booker prize!

World War Z

This book is extremely interesting and suspenseful. Although it may only cater for a certain type of interest. It has recently been made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. It is a zombie book although not the classic type. Every Chapter has a new person discussing there experiences with the zombie out break. Each opinion and experience is entirely different to the previous one, which makes it very suspenseful. You also begin to feel and empathise with the characters as the talk about there personal stories. I recommend this to anyone interested in zombies, action, emotion, medicine, current affairs and the world as a hole!

The Abundance of Katherines.

The abundance of Katherines is yet another John Green novel I am obsessed with. There is something about every book he writes that resinates with me. They are so relatable and realistic that I cannot bare to read any another book. Although I think I should branch out! Anyway this novel follows an 18 year old, anagram-loving boy called Colin singleton. Colin has Dated 19 girls all called Katherine and is depressed about his recent break up with Katherine #19. He and his friend, Hassan Harbish, a funny, lazy and obese Muslim, set of on a road trip to take his mind off the breakup. During his adventure he makes unlikely friendships and meets a girl called Linsdey who he ends up falling for. Overall it was a very witty and funny novel that I found easy to relate to (even though it was a 18 year old boy, I found the ideas and themes extremely realistic. I recommend it to any john green loving reader or anyone who is interested in real life drama and experiences.

The Outsiders

I have read this book recently and it is officially one of my all time favourite novels ever. The book follows two rival groups, the greasers and the socs who are divided by their socioeconomic status.I recommend this to anyone who is interested in the 1960s era of greasers and jocks (similar to Danny in grease). The novel is also very relatable as the main character ponyboy deals with family and social issues that everyday people endure.  

Diary of Anne Franks

The Diary of Anne Frank, if you don't already know, is a diary of a jewish teenage girl. It is set in world war two, and Frank is hiding with her an another family in an Annex.

This is a really interesting and tragic novel. I found this really sad because as I read it I couldn't get it out of my head that this is real, and a real human being had to go through this. It is really thought provoking because it is written from Annes perspective. Also it is very relatable as Anne is a teenage girl struggle with not only discrimination, but also every day problems with family, boys etc.

Looking for Alaska

'Looking for Alaska' By John Green is an excellent novel. It displays many different themes throughout, involving love, comedy and tragedy. It is very humorous, and I found myself giggling more than once. I really grew to love the characters, and was very upset at the alarming tragedy at the end. I recommend this to anyone who loves adventures and love as well as comedy.

The fault in our Stars

Very emotional, and slightly depressing in some parts, although the message is very thought provoking. i enjoyed reading it because of the humour.