Grendel's Guide to Love and War by A.E. Kaplan

Haotian Jiang

Plot Summary
Tom Grendel was supposed to have a peaceful summer vacation by earning money through lawn mowing, and hanging out with his best friend, Ed Park. Everything changes when Tom's old neighbor moves away, and the new neighbor, the Rothgar family moves in. Tom has a crush on Willow Rothgar, but he hates her brother Rex Rothgar because of all the things he has done to ruin Tom's perfect summer. Everything goes wrong for Tom after the Rothgars move in, and now it is up to Tom to fix everything that has been broken after his mom's death.

Critical  Evaluation
 If I would write an essay on this book, I would talk about "What does the book tell you about communication and family?" Tom's family was shattered after his mom's death, but nobody in the family really talks about the real issue, and this only makes his family more broken than it already is. I strongly recommend you read this book because it shows how important it is to communicate to your family in order to built a strong bond among the family.

 I would give this book a 10 out of 10. I have never read any book like this before. The complicated relationships between the characters made the book really fun to read. And there are funny moments and serious moments which balance out the story's purpose.

Blackest Night by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis

Brandon Sanchez


Book Summary
Blackest Night is a comic book that explains how Batman died and the aftermath of that happening. Also, a great evil rises from the dark and leads an army of the dead as the black lanterns. Their mission is to make every superhero dead and make them join the black lanterns. The main characters of the story is Green Lantern, Flash, Batman and the Black Lantern Leader.

Critical Evaluation
I would rate this book 10/10. It´s a very good comic book and its very interesting- there´s a lot of plot twists. This book is very good because it has action, romance, tragedy and zombies.