Saturday, March 30, 2013

BZRK by Michael Grant

BZRK by Michael Grant



After Grey McLure's wife developed cancer, he developed biots to help the medical field.  Biots are microscopic with parts of a human DNA along with scorpions and spiders that allow them to travel inside the human body to either rid the body of cancer, weave a web around an aneurysm, or fight nanobots (mechanical nano-scale robots).

Conjoined twins, Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, develop nanobots to take over the world so that everyone will live in peace with each other like they do.  After watching the Odyssey videos in class with the Cyclops, I picture these two looking like Polyphemus but with three eyes instead of two.  Creepy. . . .

This has a little of Innerspace, Osmosis Jones, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids. If you like the read about the workings of the human body on a microscopic level, this might be a book you would like to read. 

Grant uses multiple viewpoints to let readers know what is happening not only inside the various characters' minds but what is happening around them too.  Think of when you play video games and are focused on the screen in front of you but can also carry on a conversation with people around you, this is want some parts of the novel are like.  While reading some people may go BZRK trying to keep all the characters straight and if they are fighting for world domination or freedom. 

Thursday, March 14, 2013

UnWholly

UnWholly by Neal Shusterman











This is the second book of the Unwind trilogy.  I liked Shusterman's concept in Unwind in which parents can choose to have their child unwound, in which their body parts are used for organ transplants.

This one introduces more characters to despise rather than like.  Several characters I liked in Unwind are still there, but Shusterman adds to the conflict with new characters that are not likeable, which still makes this a good series to read because I am still rooting for the good guys.