Monday, 8 June 2015

Twilight

Synopsis:
Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. Bella attracts much attention at her new school and makes friends quickly. Much to her dismay, several boys compete for shy Bella's attention.
She discovers that Edward and his family are vampires who drink animal blood.


Sunday, 7 June 2015

Allegiant

Tris is shocked by the video released to the public at the end of the Erudite headquarters raid. The video revealed the truth about the faction system and announced that Divergent are needed outside the borders of the city.
Factionless leader Evelyn Johnson appoints herself leader of the city. She forces citizens to operate under her command and live as equal, factionless citizens. Tris questions Evelyn's motives and is kidnapped by the Allegiant, a rebel group determined to reinstate their old way of life. The Allegiant invite her to a meeting the following night.
Tris' brother Caleb is put on trial for assisting former Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews. Caleb's betrayal prevents Tris from forgiving her brother. Caleb was found a traitor and sentenced to execution in two weeks. The Allegiant, led by Cara and Johanna, plan to send a group outside the city to find the truth. Tris volunteers to go on the condition: that Caleb is taken with them.
Four, Tris, Christina, Cara, Uriah, Tori, Peter, and Caleb are ambushed after they jump off the train, which results in Tori's death. Driving through the unknown, they meet Zoe and Amar, Four's former instructors who were believed to have been killed for being Divergent.



Insurgent

One choice can transform you or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves and herself while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships. Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.


Divergent

Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another - for the rest of their lives. Tris Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow faction-members have to live through a highly competitive initiation process to live out the choice they have made. They must undergo extreme physical and intense psychological tests, that transform them all. But Tris has a secret that she is Divergent, which means she doesn't fit into any one group. If anyone knew, it would mean a certain death. As she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly peaceful society, this secret might help her save the people she loves... or it might destroy her.



Mockingjay

Synopsis:

Katniss returns home and sees the remains of District 12. Mockingjay centers on the districts' rebellion against the Capitol. It is revealed that District 13 survived The Dark Days by living underground and is led by President Alma Coin. Katniss, after being brought to 13, agrees to become the 'Mockingjay' to recruit more rebels from the districts. She sets conditions that Peeta, Johanna Mason, Annie Cresta, and Enobaria, fellow victors captured by the Capitol, would not be seen as traitors and a condition where Katniss would be able to kill Snow as an act of vengeance if the rebels won. It is revealed that Peeta has been 'hijacked', brainwashed using Tracker Jacker venom, to kill Katniss. He tries to choke her to death upon their reunion. After her healing, Katniss and a team known as the Star Squad, consisting of Gale, Peeta, Finnick, camera crew, and various other soldiers, embark on a mission to go to the Capitol to kill Snow, thus winning the rebellion




Catching fire

Synopsis:

In Catching Fire, which begins six months after the conclusion of The Hunger Games, Katniss learns that her defiance in the previous novel has started a chain reaction that has inspired rebellion in the districts. President Snow threatens to harm her family and friends if she does not help to defuse the unrest in the districts and marry Peeta. Meanwhile, Peeta has become aware of Katniss's disingenuous love of him, but has also been informed of Snow's threats, and promises to help keep up the act to spare the citizens of District 12. They tour the districts as victors and plan a public wedding.Snow announces a special 75th edition of the Hunger Games in which Katniss and Peeta are forced to compete with other past victors.





The Hunger Games

Synopsis:

The Hunger Games follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games in place of her younger sister Primrose Everdeen. Also participating from District 
12 is Peeta Mellark, a boy who has developed a secret crush on Katniss. They are mentored by District 12's only living victor, Haymitch Abernathy, who won the Games 24 years earlier and has since assumed a solitary life of alcoholismCinna, Katniss' stylist, makes her the girl on fire, getting the attention of the sponsors, vital for surviving the games. Katniss and Peeta fight against the other tributes together, pretending they love each other to win public favor.


"Sueños"

Here you have the first lines of Nidia's book "Sueños":

Since ancient times dreams have been considered a form of communication with the divine and the best way to predict future events. We bring every night unusual universes, mysterious characters, infernal or angelical visions and wonderful episodes that we can't live when we're awake.These chimeras can have a meaning, but many of them never come true because at them some facts that happen are beyond our reasoning, our logic.

If you want to keep reading visit Nidia's blog: El rincón secreto de Nidia

"La cara oculta"

Here you have the first lines of Nidia's book "La cara oculta":

The sound of the great battle unfolding around her was ringing in her eardrums, but she couldn't give it the attention she should. Inexplicably, her hand pressed hard on the sternum, felt a kind of viscous liquid covering her palm; her head was spinning , she couldn't understand what was happening yet. A little frightened, she put away her trembling hand of that part of her body, it was totally stained of reddish liquid. What happened? What was happening to her? For a moment she forgot everything , she forgot why she was in that scary place . The pain suddenly was atenuated and then she realized why she was losing so much blood, she had been wounded and she was the one who done it.

If you want to keep reading, visit her blog: El rincón secreto de Nidia

Monday, 1 June 2015

"Bajo mi piel"

Nidia Represa visits Sigüenza to talk about her book "Bajo mi piel". In her book she talks about bulling. She suffered it when she was 15.

Synopsis:

I wasn't even able to understand those horrible feelings playing in my chest oppressing my soul. It was torture , a sharp grief . I tried to go away that feeling of a million ways, but the wounds only got worse .
I became just a weirdo they used as entertainment in unbearable moments of high school. Painful memories blinded me, left me breathless.
It was too late. No one could save me.

High school is not what it seems, its walls hide more secrets than you can imagine. Are you ready to discover them?