Book Review for "Forest Born"

Author: Shannon Hale
Good evening fellow bloggers!
This is the last of the Bayern Books, and I failed to mention in my last post that River Secrets is the third.  Let's get started!

Rinna was born in the forest.  And having so many brothers and sisters she deals with loneliness and feelings of being unwanted.  Her main comforts are the beautiful, majestic forest trees, and her favorite brother Razo.  Razo, apart of the Bayern's Own group of warriors is hardly ever home anymore, and when he is, he brings his pretty new Tiran diplomat friend, Dasha.  Rinna feels quite jealous and unwanted.  In the past years, Rinna has felt the ever growing apartness between her and her precious trees.  In desperation of purpose, Rinna leaves for the city, to find work and a new life.  She winds up in care for the queens son and ends up on a wild, dangerous journey, in trying to protect his life, in which she'll need every power she possesses to guide him safely home.

I would hate to spoil the story anymore, and its hard to stop writing, but let's take a look at the pros and cons.  The Cons: A few curse words, (if my memory serves me right) and violence.  If small readers rad this book I'm not sure exactly how they would take it.  I remember wincing once or twice at what all happened.  The Pros: Ending on a positive note, this is a beautifully written story about, friendship, loyalty, and family, and was pleasantly very much surprised at what evolved in the plot.  I for one never saw it coming and my jaw literally dropped open and hung there for a second.  Like I've said a bizillion times before this is my favorite series I've ever encountered so far, and if you read it, (which you should!) I think you'll enjoy it thoroughly!
Stay tunned, NEXT BOOK REVIEW CLUE: The Crow  

Book Review For "River Secrets"

Author: Shannon Hale

Sometimes I just want to shoot myself!  I feel like I never get to write on here anymore, and it drives me absolutely insane! Ah, enough of me though. :P Lets get down to business! River Secrets, I truly and sincerely love this book!
Razo is a boy from the forest filled with a duty to serve his country.  He is a loyal friend ho loves to mess around with his best friends Finn, Enna, and Prinncess Anidori (Isi).  He longs to be an important part of the up and coming war with Tira, Bayerns new enemy.  He finally makes it to a training camp and makes new friends and enemy's right away.  But that is not the most inportant of Razo's problems, he thinks he might be falling for the lovely and closed Dasha, and why does everyone keep finding charred bodies everywhere, and who is the cause?

This book was a mystery, thriller, and action/ romance.  I couldn't put it down and was constantly telling my mom the new turn of events.  I loved the action and Razo firey spirit.  The evolving romances between some the characters was very well done and descriptions were beautiful.  The pros and cons...The pros: I think I've told you most of them!  The cons: there was some cussing, vivid violence, and obscence jestures between a few characters. All in all though I will always love this book and its amazing author!