Jaden Baker Book Review

* I really don't write many book reviews, but I guess that's basically because the books I read are generally not interesting to most people, they are mainly science books and stuff. but I have decided to read loads more books and write reviews of them, to start it off, I just completed Jaden Baker.

I have to say that I adored this book the same way I have adored Magyk and Harry Potter. It took me into a new world, and since I am a picky reader, not many books do that for me. The beginning was kinda confusing for me, at first because of the analytic speech and jargon provided I believed that the boy was a android meant to take the place of a human child. But quickly found out otherwise. I felt sorry for him because he had a bad past and distrusted people. I really didn't know which way this book would go.

And then all hell broke loose, and the boy is kidnapped and fastened with an electric collar, force fed, and is forced to train his mysterious power. Treated like cattle and even branded with a barcode like bread at the grocery store. But then later on the gates of hell were blast apart once the torture began, whippings, electric collar, beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation, the works! The consistent torture started to wear me out, although it did play an important role in the plot. And this is coming from someone who writes short stories on torture. The details of the torture were extremely vivid, and it was like i was there watching it all go down. Each and every shock of the collar, each and every whipping, I am curious to know if the author is well-studied on this subject or not.

I could connect with the loner, bookwormish, self-taught, astute, main characters Jaden Baker and Elizabeth James. Being self-taught, a loner, and a bookworm myself. This made it harder for me to put down the kindle, and ultimately got me hooked on reading the book. the main hooking moment was the 9 year old child prodigy in analytical thinking. I mean, this kid was not only a bad-ass, but he was as intelligent as Hermione Granger without the air of nerdiness. I also enjoyed the many references to Harry Potter and laughed at the fact that it is the main series Jaden Baker never read.

Although this really didn't annoy me, but I believe I must mention it, the free-version of this book for the kindle (although no longer free) contained many grammatical and spelling errors. I hope she fixed this in her newer versions. I found the advanced language very fascinating, and learned several new words whilst reading this novel, such as "camaraderie"! And I also love the reference to the old nursery rhyme "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree."

Since this book kept my mind on edge for a week with exhilarating twists, turns, and plot points, I will give this book a 9/10. I hope to read more by this author!

I recommend you read this book.

Astrobiology by Monica Grady: Book Review

I have never been a fan of a book that has more pictures than words, that being said I believe this book is more directed to those people who are adamant that life is out there, not skeptics like me.

At first I was shocked when I heard about a book on the subject of Astrobiology (there are quite a few), saying that life, or even the hint of it's possibility, has yet to be discovered. Any leads we have ever had on it's possibility turned out to be either:

1. Wrong/mistaken
2. Hype
3. Unprovable without a rocket that can travel faster than the speed of light to take us places within our life-time.

But I bought this book, thought it might hold something I cannot learn in 5th grade. I was wrong. This book really only goes though the possibility of life out there, which is all it really can do saying that there is no actual evidence that life really does exist off earth as of yet. The book is short, half of the book or more is composed of images, and just about all of the information you can find in the "Is there life out there?" section of just about any large astronomy book. And much of the information is just a vomit of basic knowledge on the subject.

I really don't think a explanation of how the universe was made, how the moon was made, how comet Shoemaker-levy 9 his Jupiter in 1994, space mission names, all the missions to Mars or the description of all the planets in our solar system, has anything to do with the possibility of life on other celestial bodies. At least in the epilogue it agree's that there are no guarantee's when it comes to life existing out there.

This book just seems to have been written too early for it to actually be of any help at all. Like writing a book about the cell-phone 100 years ago. This book may be of some help later on, but right now it's all just hypothetical.

I give this book a 3/10, it could be much better, and it was written at a bad time.

Pokemon The Movie 8: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew Movie Review!

Nothing makes you feel better than watching a movie for the second time! This time with a better appreciation of the story, plot, and characters!

I <3 Lucario! He is just the coolest pokemon I have ever seen, so this movie has earned itself a high rating just for that! His batman voice was slightly annoying, but I guess beggers can't be choosers.

The storyline about the past and of a pokemon that lived a thousand years beforehand trying to figure out why his “master” trapped him in a staff is an eye catcher. I will not tell you the whole thing, but pikachu is taken to this “tree” by mew and ash goes to find his friend. Ash and Lucario's master, sir Aaron has the same aura. Go figure. It seems like anything that can go wrong during ash's lifetime does go wrong, and ash is always the one to save it. What a rotten time to be alive, and the chosen one.

The ending kinda threw me off, if it takes an aura master years to learn how to use aura, than it puzzles me how ash was able to use it on a whim like that and never knew of it before, nor ever uses it later. But the ending was also really adorable at the same time (crying Lucario, awwwww!).

I also didn't know mew had the ability to transform into other Pokemon O.o But hey, screw the rules! They have money!

The storyline and everything else made the movie deserve a 7 out of 10, but since it has Lucario in it, I give it a 8 out of 10! It didn't make me stand on edge, nor did it have any truly shocking points, but that's Pokemon for you.

I recommend it! Watch it... NOW!

The Avenger's Movie Review

I just watched this movie today, and I have to admit that it was a pretty good movie. In the theater some of the scenes flashed a little too much and the sound was booming in many scenes, but I guess that's just the cinema for you.

The plot was great, I don't want to go into too much detail and ruin it for anyone. Basically the earth is under attack and they have to college these super-hero's to save the way, which, of course, they do. The main enemy in this movie is Loki, Thor's brother. The characters were also pretty well established, and I enjoyed many of the costumes the characters wore, showed off the muscle and butt <3  they were really well made.

The humor in here is really well established, witty comments and "ownage" galore. I laughed at many of the scenes. There was also lots of explosions, so if you like funny and explosions, watch this movie.

Iron man seems to be the focal character in this whole movie. Although the other characters all get their 15 minutes of fame, it just seemed that Iron man hogged most of the time. Not that it was bad or anything, just an observation.

But I am infatuated with Thor, and Hawkeye was pretty cute too, I would rate this movie as a 9 out of 10. I liked it. And I assume you would too if you watched the previous movies, so you don't get confused.

The Last Unicorn Movie Review (spoilers)

I hate to say it, but I honestly thought I would like this movie much more. But all it really seemed to do was baffle me. This movie has most likely not been seen by many people and I only found out about it via a random chance occurring on YouTube.




The bad guys were ugly as usual, and there was a tripping scene where the human-unicorn almost dies, but nothing says old animated movie like cliche's do.

Lets see... oh right, I liked the movie because it was unique. But there were a lot of plot holes and everything happens so fast without any reason for them. I really did not understand why anything was happening, and there really wasn't any dramatic moments, or romantic moments outside of one song about love, and even then there isn't a single kissing scene. I can actually tell why this video was forgotten.

The voices are also not that great, the prince really can't sing well, and since this is an actual movie and not a YouTube video, I believe it should have been better.

I guess the only real big plus in here is that it has a unicorn in it. And it mentions narwhals in passing! I like magic but the spells in stuff in here really did not catch my interest.

But watch it and see how much you like it. but I will give it a 4/10

(Spoiler alert from here onward, summery of video)


It starts off as a bunch of hunters are searching for food, and found that (upon assumption) that the forest must belong to a unicorn and thus they would not be able to hunt, therefore they leave the forest and go elsewhere. The unicorn becomes confused because the hunters said that she was the last one. She talks to a butterfly that can only quote things it has heard and learns that the unicorns are being held by a red bull. The unicorn runs off to search for this red bull and gets captured by a magic-wielding circus group. One of the magician free's her and a harpie that kills everyone but the magician and the unicorn.  They set off down a road and the magician gets captured by a group of rouges who kidnap him for no reason and takes him to camp. He magic's his way out and meets up with the woman (who appears out of nowhere) at the camp who see's the unicorn and decides (for no reason at all) to go with them on their journey.

During their trip to this castle where the red bull lies they meet up with the red bull, who, although apparently cannot touch the unicorn can scare her into the castle, but before that can happen the wizard saves her by turning her into a human. In this shape they go up to the castle and asks to see the king, which he is able to do easily, and goes up to the kings broken down thrown room and easily gets jobs as the kings helpers.

Yadda yadda blah blah, she falls in love with the prince and almost turns completely human. now they find the unicorns in the sea and they are corned by the red bull, the magician turns the girl back into a unicorn, the prince dies failing to save her, and the unicorn fought back and drove off the red bull, something the other hundreds of unicorns could not do... the king falls of a cliff and dies, and his kingdom crumbles down. she revives the prince and goes to live in her forest, the prince goes on his own, and the women and the magician stay together. The end