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As is common these days, I first saw the trailer for this flick during another one. Sometime last year - who knows when. I was immediately intrigued by the relatively original concept. The initial idea was automatically reminiscent of Superman, but theirs is a different story. Nine extraterrestrial children are sent to Earth to escape the demise of their planet. Or rather, in the case of Lorien, their species' extinction at the hands of a vicious race known as the Mogadorians. Each of the Lorien children are sent with a guardian to protect them, should the Mogadorians track them down. John can only be killed in order, due to a charm each have. This is meant to protect them. Not having much luck... After number three's murder, John's guardian, Henri, takes them to Paradise, in Ohio, to take care of some things. Disobeying Henri, John decides to go to school. There he starts to fall for the outcast babe, Sarah, (Dianna Agron - Glee, Veronica Mars) and befriends the resident

Book: “The Hunger Games” Trilogy Author: Suzanne Collins Publisher: Scholastic AU Opinion: I was raved to about this series for weeks, by a girl friend. Admittedly, at first glance, I wasn’t too sure I’d actually like it – my sister had a similar reaction to the first few pages. The same day I bought the fist volume, I wached the cult Japanese film “Battle Royale” at a friend’s, which incidentally, has a mutual component. We’re introduced to one Katniss Everdeen, a resourceful and strong-headed young woman. From a very young age, Katniss has had to shoulder the burden of her family’s survival, upon her father’s death. Her post-apocalyptic North America, now known as Panem is ruled by a fascist regime where twelve districts are forced to serve the Capitol, the city. Every year, each district has to give up two children, a male and female, to compete in the extremely cruel, televised event known as the Hunger Games. Each ‘tribute’ must fight for survival by killing all the other trib

I've discovered the following covers for the new Orbit reprints of Kelley's Otherworld series. I'm wondering why they haven't shown up at the shops yet. I guessed; perhaps it has to do with selling the old stock first, before they order more copies of the reprints. Bummer... Might have to resort to A & R ordering them in for me. I'm loving the covers as well. Still understated and simple, like their previous, but much more mature and non-fantastical. I'm kind of glad they did away with the cliche icons like demon masks and pentacles and the like. Loving it! :)

Most excellent news, although I'm terribly late in updating. (surprise) Kelley's publishers have released the cover art for the first book in the upcoming "Darkness Rising" trilogy, also known as book four in the Darkest Powers series. This series will see a bunch of new kids also connected with the Edison Group . The North American cover is really beautiful, keeping in line with the previous three, however this one now shows the person's face. The colours are blue tones with the earring being highlighted. I wonder if it will bear any relevance to the main character, Maya, as the gem did to Chloe. I really am in love with this cover. The UK publisher, on the other hand, has decided to go with their own design. Where have I seen this before? Orbit pulled this stunt at the start of the Darkest Powers trilogy and whilst I had no problems with their design, they quickly changed back to the US covers, but thankfully re-released the first book with the US cover. I just

Book: Beautiful Creatures Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Publisher: Puffin Opinion: Ethan Wate lives in the town of Jackson * (?) in Gatlin County. “The Middle of Nowhere”. To paraphrase; it has no Starbucks, no McDonald’s and no movie theatre. A small, simple town. Nothing ever happened there. “There were no surprises in Gatlin.” Heh… Famous last words. As luck would have it – a new girl comes to town. Lena Duchannes – the hottest thing to hit Gatlin since Savannah Snow. To say her arrival causes a storm is a joke as well as a colossal understatement. Through a series of events, we come to find a lot of secrets, a lot deceit and a lot of bad decisions made with the best intentions. Quite a bit of Jackon’s history comes to light, culminating in a big showdown in the final chapters. However, we’re still left with a fairly open ending, as there will indeed be a sequel – much to my delight. The characters are quite believable and some of the minor characters are given decent

As soon as I saw the trailer, I was sold. Noooo... It was not "Poker Face" playing in the background. Although, that naturally raised my enjoyment of the clip. The way the speech seemed to flow naturally and the story truly looked funny. I thought: I would seriously, (and willingly), pay to watch this at the cinema. So we start with Olive, sitting down at her computer, starting a live web-cast. She is about to tell the story of her downward spiral from noticed to downright infamous, without omitting truly hated. When a rumour gets out that she's lost her v-plates, Olive becomes the talk of the high school. She does a poor job of dissuading people and the mill keeps turning. Chinese whispers is a gross understatement. However, after reluctantly helping a gay kid achieve some fame as a straight stud, Olive comes to achieve the rank of slut, skank - choose your colloquial synonym. All the social outcasts begin to go to her for help. As expected, it starts to go dow