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Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

This book is extremely overrated in my opinion; it has the plot to be interesting, but I didn't think it was executed very well. It was just like a massive comedy chase scene that dragged out throughout the whole book really.

I actually gave my physical copy away (that I can remember) to somebody who hadn't read it before in the hope that they would like it better than I did. Every book hits every single person differently so hopefully it can have another effect on somebody else.

Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever... because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead.

I wasn't keen on this book on the first read, I found Tris to be extremely reckless and stupid with her decisions. Overall, I was just so frustrated with this book and wanted to throw my kindle across my room in anger. However, upon rereading this book I started to understand a little of where Tris was coming from and her motives for doing what she was doing - I still didn't like this book as much as the first one but it definitely improved with a reread.

Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her to verify an amazing find by NASA, a find which will settle the arguments about NASA funding for ever. Reluctantly agreeing to view the find Rachel is whisked off to the North Pole. What she finds once she gets there takes her breath away. However, she quickly learns that nothing is what it seems, and, with two civilian scientists, is soon fleeing for her life.

For me, this review doesn't need to be too long winded; although whether that happens as I begin to write may be a different story however. Dan Brown never fails to create a page turner with his pacey action thrillers but Deception Point didn't really hit the mark for me I'm afraid in other categories.

The whole book for me seemed a little too one dimensional despite the many view points that the book was written from - nothing ever really happened. Well, a lot happened, but it wasn't exciting like his other books. It all seemed to be a bit too obvious and put together, (I'm not sure if I'm wording this correctly) like you had the obvious baddies and goodies and it wasn't too hard to fit the puzzle pieces together to figure out what was going on.

The story seemed to follow a strict structure of characters get into an "impossible" situation and miraculously survive, repeat. I know the story wouldn't be any good if the main characters just died at the first obstacle, but some of the situations that they got out of were ridiculously unbelievable and even when you think that there's absolutely no way out they find some even more ridiculous way of escaping. It was a book worthy of a lot of eye rolling to say the least.

Also. Unnecessary romance. WHAT?!

Don't get me wrong, the writing was the usual Dan Brown; interesting in it's factual research and pacey. However, the writing alone cannot hold the rest of the unfortunately disappointing read.

In order to showcase the books that I own, I have created a little segment whereupon I will go through each book one letter of the alphabet at a time.

The Hundred And One Dalmations by Dodie Smith

When the Dearlys' Dalmatians have their first litter of puppies -- fifteen in all -- everyone is delighted. But their joy is shattered when the pups are kidnapped! The humans don't have a clue as to who the culprit is, but the smartest dogs in London are on the case -- and on the trail of the fur-loving Cruella de Vil, who will stop at nothing to have a Dalmatian fur coat!