Book review

BOOK REVIEW - THIS SHATTERED WORLD

(Disclaimer, this is REALLY long)

Super short recap! GO!

Capt. Lee Chase and Flynn Cormac have to save Avon, A war-ridden planet, from La roux industries - led by Roderick Laroux, who’s A teeny bit insane - who are going to corrupt the soldier's minds with something called the fury. (There’s a bit- okay, a lot of romance*, just saying…)

Set In -

The whole Starbound trilogy is set a long, long, LONG way into the future, a place where holograms and hover cars are replacements of digital items and sports cars. Roderick Laroux is the richest man in the galaxy and rules over the different planets with an iron fist. Avon is a planet created by La Roux industries and is in the stages of terraforming so it cannot support life fully. It is a land of swamps and deserts, and one small town sits on its face, surrounded by military barracks, and placed right next to a military base. Out in the swamps, a rebel base underground houses a group called the Fianna, rebelling against their bad holo-signal, and how the military gets better resources and a better holo-signal.

*By romance I mean Lots of kissing, but it isn’t as bad as the first book in the trilogy. On that note, it’s time for a...

Age recommendation- young adult, 15 & up.

My response…

I liked this book. Like, I really, really liked this book. The reason I’m writing about the second book is that it was my favorite one. Amy Kaufman also wrote Ice wolves, which is also a young adult’s book, so that led me to search up her name in my dad’s kindle on a ski trip. I really actually do judge a book by its cover, and the cover of the first book in the trilogy, “These broken stars” was absolutely phenomenal. I would describe the genre as something in between action and romance. Or both. The third book in the trilogy is called “Their fractured light and all three book have a connection. In the first, Lilac Laroux and Tarver Merendsen  discover the whispers, and defeat them, In the second, Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac call Tarver, who was Lee’s old captain, to come to Avon, then Tarver Holo-calls Lilac Laroux, his fiance, to get advice on how to defeat the whispers on Avon, and they find out the whispers were taken to three different planets, Verona, Avon, and Corinth. In the third, Sophia Quinn, and Gideon (?) meet with Lilac, Tarver, Lee, and Fynn, Sophia's old village friend, and take down Roderick Laroux in one epic finale.

Characters

Jubilee chase

Captain Jubilee chase. Grew up on Verona, around the time the rebel attacks were at their worst, her parents were killed by husks, people whose minds had been taken over by whispers, then she dedicated her life to defeating the rebels.

Flynn Cormac

Flynn Cormac, younger brother of Orla Cormac, who was the first leader of the Fianna rebellion, Flynn is now the leader, it’s in his blood, yet he is a pacifist. He kidnaps Jubilee Chase, then he helps her find out how to defeat the whispers who are corrupting the minds of soldiers and giving them the fury.

My Response… Continued!

I would totally recommend this book. The storyline and connections will make you gasp over and over again at every twist and turn in the plot.

Rating- 10/10

Cooking class for... Last week of term!

On Tuesday in cooking, we made a rice salad. First, we made the rice, then we cut up carrot, ham, broccoli, spring onion, and onion, then we fried the veggies with ginger and garlic to add flavor. Today, I learned how to fry the veggies and how to know when they are ready, and how to make rice without spilling water all over the place. I like the dish because it had good flavor but I feel like we need to add more ham next time or use bacon bits. I would rate it 9 out of 10.

Well, now I know what to make for dinner... YUMMY!

Cooking Lesson 26th June Trimester 2

Today in cooking class we made pinwheel scones, AKA cinnamon rolls, AKA DELICIOUS! at first, our mixture looked crusty, flaky and dry but then as we rolled it out it started to look better.

I learned that the pictures in our recipe book don't match exactly what we were making, for instance, the picture in the booklet was a normal scone, and we made cinnamon scones! 

Rating: 9/10      Why?   Needs more cinnamon

Before

After

DNCE Biography by Georgia

Rollercoaster

Rollercoaster

AH! I yelped. We spun round in a full loop. As the roller coaster sped up, I felt like all of myinsides were being pressed into the back of my body. Then I felt it.
The motherload. In the middle of a 50-meter downward spiral at 100kms an hour,
I lost my stomach. Well, I felt like I'd lost everything that was my insides.
I felt light-headed light-footed and it was like the ice cream and various foods
I had eaten that day had been flung into the air on the 20-meter drop. I then realized
what would happen when the track went flat again. The drop was coming to an end.
Just at the part where you feel like you're flying, whump! Annnnd hello, my insides are
back.

I felt a jump in my stomach sort of area and then I felt like my insides were trying to escape through my
mouth. I grimaced and gulped down air like I'd been underwater for a little too long. I prayed and hoped
that the incline would start. And whoop de dang doo. It was still what seemed like miles away. I tasted dry in my mouth and my head started to hurt, and I realized I no longer wanted the incline on the track

to come, remembering my fear of heights, and I was slightly relieved. That was pretty short-lived though

because as soon as the incline came my inside were gone again. We shot up that tunnel so fast the seats on

the car tilted back, and I heard someone behind me scream:  "NO! MY PHONE!". We sped out of the tunnel, and I saw the end of the track, I sighed/screamed in relief, only to be cut off when we abruptly whizzed past the stop. That's when I completely lost my mind. someone screamed, "I'm too young to die!" Then I realized that person was me. SKWEEEEEEECHHHHHHHH! the rollercoaster shuddered to a stop. I looked towards the other people on the ride, I think some were laughing, and some crying. I couldn't tell though, because The screeching noise was so deafening I couldn't hear anything. just as well because there was some spoiled rotten 10-year-old who was having a tantrum and waving an expensive-looking phone that was cracked in her poor mother's face. 

     

I could barely stand and my head was spinning, but I got off the ride in one piece. The ride engineers had
come to get us after the teenage clerk who was meant to stop and start the ride walked off to buy a
milkshake. I had thoughts of walking right up to that stupid clerk and slapping him square in the face,
but my common sense got the better of me. At the end of the day, I was just glad I was still alive.

Ratio

This week in maths we are revisiting ratio.
A ratio is like quantity VS quantity.
An easy question would be:
There are 12 boys in a class of 26. what is the ratio of boys to girls?
In this question you basically need to think: How many boys compared to girls?
Let me break it down-
12 + X = 26
X = 14
Boys - 12      Girls - 14
Ratio = 12:14
Can we simplify that answer? Yes!
Both 12 and 14 are even numbers. we can simplify our answer by splitting both numbers into twos.
Then our answer would be: 6:7
Sometimes we can simplify answers more than once but in the case you can't, because these two result numbers can't be multiplied by the same number, so we'll have to stay with 6:7
The reason people simplify is that sometimes you may be asked to state your answer in the lowest terms. so remember to check and double- check you can't simplify your answer even more.
Tip- when you read or are asked your question, look at the way it says to put your ratio. Here is an example:
Jo has 6 pencils and 12 sparkly gel pens.
What is the ratio of gel pens to pencils?
now, look how it says pencils first and gel pens second, but it asks for gel pens first? if it asked for pencils to gel pens, the ratio would be 6:12, and simplified, 2,4 and then 1:2, but because it asks for gel pens first, the answer is 12:6, then 4:2 and then 2:1
Thanks for reading, bye!

Trimester 2, week one - Cooking lessons

Today we made mousetraps during food technology. a mousetrap is a cheese toastie except with ham egg and parsley too. First, we made the mix, and then we spread on the half - grilled bread, the toasted in until it was cooked, and our teacher made banana smoothies to go with them.
It was tasty. 😊😊😊