Books - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Rate the book: 8

I started off as a twilight hater. Every time someone mentioned Twilight I brought my steel tipped stakes out [Buffy style]. Once I actually took the time to read the books, I quite liked them. Yeah the books are not particularly well written and yeah Bella appears to have lost her brain at times. Yet their romance still has a certain appeal to it. Bella comes across as a more understandable character than in the movies, probably because it’s written from her point of view. Edward Cullen isn’t nearly as annoying as in the movies and hey what do you know, he has a sense of humor! Well sort of a sense of humor… Actually I don’t know why I like it maybe it’s a generational thing [I’m a generation Z not Y]

----reviewed by Jasper

Books - Out of the Frying Pan by Andrew and Ben Whitehouse

Rate the book: 7
 
Put your hand up if you have ever felt like you are jumping from the frying pan only to realise you have landed feet first into the fire?  I think most of us have been there at some stage as we have grown up and this book puts it down on paper oh so well!  

Out of the Frying Pan is a collection of 15 Australian stories that recount the trials and tribulations of growing up.  Covering the hilarious, heartbreaking and the tragic, these stories are from real people who reveal that no-one escapes their childhood and adolescence unscathed!  

Great read....especially for someone finishing up at high school wondering what now!  

You can buy it from bookstores

----reviewed by Shae