Reviewed by: Isaac
By Suzanne Collins
Scholastic Press/Suzanne Collins
343 Pages
This is the fourth book in a really great five book series. The book has a lot of great action, intense moments, and mystery. People who would this book are people who really love the dystopian novels like the Hunger Games series, Harry Potter series, and Divergent series. The book has a lot more elements to it than just the action part of it, it has a little bit of romance, it has a lot of drama and shows a lot of how the poor struggle, and it also gives a great lesson of how a poor kid can rise up to be an amazing hero in a completely different world. People who like an underdog, love action, find mysteries interesting, and like a little bit of romance and drama this is the book for them.
For some background information since this isn't the first book of the series, its about a kid who has a very poor family and lives in a apartment complex in New York. One day when he is down in the laundry room of the complex with his little baby sister she climbs into a vent and falls down and he goes after her. Down in the vent he gets caught by a gust of wind and find himself in a completely new world. He then finds out from the underlanders that he is destined to complete a number of different prophecies. In this particular book he is helping the queen of the underlanders, Luxa, to help find out what is happening to the mice in the Underland. The rats have been moving them around and Gregor and Luxa are trying to figure out why they are finding the mice dead with a weird specific mark that they have been finding by the dead mice's body. So it is just about them trying to figure out the mystery behind the disappearing mice and get to the bottom of the rat's plan.
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