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Posted by: evilcam
Also, you're not empathizing with animals. You're being judgmental and snooty. you're just using this as an excuse to prove to the world how great and noble you are. This is an ego trip, that only you and those who are on the same type of ego trip could justify and applaud. You take narcissism and turn it into an art form.
We're writing English stuff? My latest English thing(book report)
Introduce:
The title of my book is “Wolf Island” by the Irish Author, Darren Shan. (His real name is Darren O’ Shaughnessy)It’s the eighth book in the “Demonata” series. I would classify this genre as horror, though the horror is around 25% with a gore 75%.
Describe:
This story takes place, strangely enough, at exactly when the seventh book started. But it is done from someone else’s point of view. It begins in a hospital, and gradually moves to a whole host of locations, and eventually ends up in Wolf Island itself.
Now, meet Grubitsch Grady. But call him Grubbs, he really doesn’t like Grubitsch. And who can blame him? His parents and sister were viciously murdered by the Demonata, a civilization of sorts. (Well, it’s a race of creatures that live in countless other universes and hope for the destruction of humankind)You see, the Grady family has a Lycanthropy gene (werewolves). It only affects a Grady when they are children or teenagers. Grubbs’ sister had it. That’s why his family was murdered.
The only way to bring your child back to normal is to play a game of chess with a Demon Master, Lord Loss. His parents lost the game, so the family was brutally murdered because of that. At the time, Grubbs was just an innocent teenager who had a normal life. This all changed when he walked into the room to find his parents mutilated bodies. Now, he’s fighting Demons in other universes to find more information about The Shadow. The shadow is an element, strangely enough. That element is death. Somehow, it’s controlling the demons. Now he has heard that werewolves attacked his fellow disciples (magical people who fight the demons) in his house. He knows that the only people that could have the werewolves are the Lambs.
The Lambs are a scientific company. The idea is that the Grady families call The Lambs when they feel that they’re not up to fighting a Demon Lord with chess. The Lambs would come to their house, and put the werewolf out of its misery. Lately though, The Lambs have been trying to find a scientific cure to Lycanthropy. Then they take the werewolf, bring it to their labs, and tell the parents that they had killed it. But they didn’t. They experiment on them. So, naturally, Grubbs was suspicious. He, Shark (Shark is a massive disciple with military training) and their Dirty Dozen (12 men and women with expertise in all areas) set out to the skyscraper that was the Lambs HQ.
Once there, they found out that the Lamb Leader had disappeared, along with all the Werewolves, to a small island far away…
Judge:
This book could be described as over the top, and it is, really, to an extent. But you just don’t mind when you’re reading because its so action packed, it’s written very well, and it has more twists than a Curly Worley. I like the character Grubbs, because he’s funny and get’s a major change in personality towards the end. I loved that twist, myself. I also loved this book because it is one of the only books where I look up, say “Oh!” and wonder “How did I not see that coming?” because he delivers the twists so well.
It has great dialogue, with a lot of open speech. There were moments where I think “How are they going to get out of this now?” and relish the answer. Ending-wise, this is my favourite finish to a Demonata book. I just loved one particular thing that happened. (I think I mentioned it above, just didn’t say what it was). It was descriptive writing, the sort where you see one description and smile to yourself at the genius of it.
I would give this book to almost anyone over 11, unless they scare easily. I do, yet I love this book. Boys and girls alike will love this, and he’s into writing for adults as well, so it’s a real all-rounder. Not for the squeamish, though. I forgot to mention that.