Top Three Surprisingly Good Books

Top Three Surprisingly Good Books (why it’s surprising and why it’s good)

1. Twilight. I know right? With all the haters you would think this was a flimsy, bored-to-tears book, but I really like it. No, I am not an obsessed Twi-hard, but I think if you look at what the book was meant to be, an entertaining read, then it is good. I highly doubt Stephanie Meyer wrote this book thinking it would be as famous.

 I give it (on entertaining) 4 stars.

This book is the first in a saga (four) where Bella Swan has just moved to Forks, Washington to live with her father when she meets Edward Cullen, a loner who seems to be superhuman. Bella is nothing but resourceful and does her research, talking to childhood  friend Jacob Black to see if he knew anything on the subject of the Cullen’s after a fellow Native American of Jacob’s said they weren’t allowed on the reserve. He tells her an old legend concerning the Cullen’s. And Vampires. Bella puts two and two together to realize Edward is a vampire. But ironically it is he who must protect her when another vampire decides to hunt down, and kill Bella.

2. Ranger’s Apprentice. I judged. I will admit it, I judged this book and thought that is would not be good and therefore put off reading it for a loooong time. I then read it. And really liked to my great surprise.  I am not by any stretch of the imagination into fantasy/foreign creatures/weird names/long not-so-epic battles type of books. Never have been, never will. That was what I labeled this book, than I read it to find it had quick humor, good plot lines, and realistic characters.

I give it 4 1/2 stars.

Will is small. He’s short and thin with no muscles but to honor his dead father he never knew memory he wants desperately to be a student at the Battleschool, and certainly not be Ranger, people who protect the Kingdom, but keep strangely quietly about it. However, when no one- no one – will take Will on as an apprentice because of his slightness, except for Halt, the mysterious Ranger. The rest of the book is about Will learning about how to be an apprentice to the oddest protectors on earth, and how to stay alive in the upcoming war against a man who wants nothing more than people like him dead.

3. Hunger Games

It’s set in the future. It’s about people you’ve grown to love dying. And it’s amazing. I doubt I’ve read anything like it and ever will again. It has a strong shock value in every word.  One wouldn’t think it was amazing by just the description, but once you start, I promise you won’t end.

I give it 5 stars.

Katniss doesn’t mind hunting, she has to keep her starving family alive in the cruel times of the Capitols reign. But hunting people? The Hunger Games is a television ‘game’ show where the Capitol crushes the different districts spirits by having a boy and girl from each district thrown into an area where competition  takes place, one where you kill, or be killed. Katniss’s sister is chosen to be represent her district, and desperately Katniss volunteers herself to take her place. And so she is trust in the Game.

What are some surprisingly good books you’ve read?

P.S.( More will be added A.S.A.P.)