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Hi everyone! About 2 years ago I read The Rose Code by Kate Quinn which, since then, has been my favorite book. The Rose Code follows 3 girls, Mab, Beth, and Osla. All three of them are quite different from each other. Osla is very elegant and is in the upper class. Meanwhile, Mab is much more poor and is struggling to support both her mother and younger sister, Lucy. Beth is more quiet and introverted and when Mab and Osla found her living with her crazy mom, they helped her get out of that house and they all began to live together. Each of these girls work in a coding school to help decode letters that have been intercepted from the Nazi. Over time, the three girls get comfortable with their job until they discover a threat to attack Coventry.  Now, before I continue, I would just like to say that the following information is a SPOILER: Beth decoded the threat and did not tell her two friends. They end up going to Coventry and Mab loses her younger sister and husband. Osla was the on

(This blog contains just enough to make someone interested, but if you're already planning on reading the Maze Runner, skip this review.)         The Maze runner is an action packed five book series written by James Dashner. If you enjoy sci-fi and thrills, this book is for you. The first book starts with a boy trapped in a black elevator which is rising and shaking. The boy is devoid of all memory, and doesn't even remember his name. After some time the elevator arrives at the Glade, a big green space surrounded by gigantic stone walls. There are many other boys who also don't remember their previous lives, and they introduce the green been to his new life. The boy soon remembers his name as Thomas. He quickly adapts to the life in the Glade, and becomes a runner, which means he runs in the maze trying to find an exit.       With the appearance of Thomas, many strange things started to happen. The first girl appeared, and was in a coma. In a few days the sky turned gray, a

The Iliad The Iliad, a twenty four book long epic written by Homer, is widely considered to be one of the most influential and well known pieces of literature from Ancient Greece. It follows part of the ten year long Trojan War, where all of Greece lays siege upon the city of Troy after Prince Hector abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. From the very first page, the epic explores both the horror and glory of war. The book opens with a great plague brought by Apollo which devastates the Greek soldiers, and the death and killing of soldiers in brutal war are depicted constantly. However, at the same time, there are triumphant moments, where the great heroes of both sides, such as Achilles, Odysseus, and Meneleus on the Greek side, and Hector on the Trojan perform incredible feats, single handedly shifting the tide of battle as they fight their way through hordes of enemies. They sometimes even fight in single combat over the fate of the war, such as the duel between Menelaus