Identical - Book Review

Title- Identical
Author- Ellen Hopkins
Number of Pages- 565
Genre- Literature and Fiction, Poetry.

Many teenagers have situations at home with their family members and at school with their peers, and I think this book does well with showing some very common situations which many teenagers experience. Identical, written by Ellen Hopkins, is about two twin teenagers who seem to have a great life. They're pretty, they have a nice home, and they have wealthy parents. But, their home isn't nearly close to perfect. Kaeleigh and Raeanne are sisters and are the twins that I just mentioned, and they have many issues in their family, mostly involving their mother and father. Their mother is well known, she's a politician, and their father is a well known lawyer, and has many secrets. 


I think that this book is very interesting most of the time. I would give it a rating of 6 out of 10 because it has some dull moments through out the book, and I lose interest and I stop paying attention to the story and eventually, I get confused. Some of the time there's very interesting parts where I can't stop reading, but usually that doesn't happen. However, I like this book because its very realistic. Absolutely everything that happens in this story could happen to anyone. I would recommend this book for young adults and older, not really for students or teenagers in middle school level, because it has some parts which would be inappropriate, and has parts that middle level students probably wouldn't be mature about. Furthermore, I think this is a very good story.

Dead Is The New Black - Book Review

Title- Dead Is the New Black.
Author- Marlene Perez
Number of Pages- 190
Genre- Mystery, Supernatural.


This story was much different than any other book I have ever read. Even though it was out of my normal comfort zone, I enjoyed it because it had many differences and similarities to my real life and experiences. The book was centered around the life of Daisy Giordano. Her sisters and mom are psychic and she's just a plain norm. Her sister Rose, can read minds, her sister Poppy has telekinesis abilities. Her mother has psychic abilities as well, but she uses them to solve crimes in her hometown of Nightshade. Daisy once wasn't the only person in her family without "powers", her father was a norm as well. However, her father is missing, and that's a long going mystery that is a small problem throughout the whole book, but a very emotional subject for the characters. Furthermore, Daisy goes through many changes throughout the book, big or small.


In this book you learn about how Nightshade would never be considered an average, quiet, small town. It may be small, but it definitely shouldn't be described as average, or normal, for the most part. Many things happen in Nightshade that make me think this. As though it seems that mostly all of the "unusual" things happen to only Daisy and her family, you later learn that many people experience things like Daisy does.


This book was highly interesting to me because it never had a dull moment, something dramatic, or action-like was constantly happening. I personally would give the book a rating of 9 out of 10. I would do that because I really like the book and I think it'd be appropriate for most ages, but no lower than junior high level. I also think that it deserves that because some things that happen in the book would just never happen in real life, and I like books that are mostly realistic and also, there's a lot of books about vampires, werewolves and other creatures, and it just too common to me. Overall, it's a very good read and shows me how you should always expect the unexpected.