Varjak Paw by SF Said

Varjak is a Mesopotamian blue cat. His family includes... Elder Paw, Jo, Jethro, Jerome, mum, dad Julius and cousin Jasmine. He's always wanted to leave the protection of his house cat life but his parents won't let him.

One day, a mysterious gentleman enter their owners room and carries away what looks like a dead body! One gentleman stays behind with 2 sleek black cats by his shoes. This was Varjak's chance to leave the house. The black cats see and give chase but Elder Paw holds them off! Sadly Elder Paw dies in the battle. Elder Paw gives him a mission to save the family with a dog.

Once Varjak is out in the open he takes shelter in a small shack by the park. Then he sees one slender figure and one fat figure; Holly and Tam. They soon become good friends.
Varjak also makes some enemies. He makes enemies with Sally Bones, the toughest cat in the city. Varjak fights her in a amazing battle near the end of the book. Once he beats her he befriends a dog called Cludge and persuades him to save the family from the evil gentleman but there is a secret that makes him more evil than ever... Will Cludge and Varjak be able to save the family in time?

Dave Mckean drew some fantastic pictures of the cats and I really liked how SF Said included just the right amount of detail. I'm giving this book 8 out of 10!!!!

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The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

This book is the first in the Series of Unfortunate Events books and I hope you enjoy it!
Violet, Claus and Sunny Baudelaire live a comfortable life with their parents in the Baudelaire mansion. Sunny has all the hard things she could chew (Sunny has very sharp teeth), Claus has all the books he could read in the Baudelaire library and Violet has all the inventing things she could wish for. All is going well until the Baudelaire mansion burns down! Unfortunately the Baudelaire parents die in the rubble. The Baudelaire children are now orphans! They spend a short time at the house of a friend of their parents called Mr. Poe.

A couple of days later, the Baudelaire orphans get taken to a very distant cousin called Count Olaf. He wants to steal the Baudelaires' enormous fortune! (The Baudelaire children inherit a enormous fortune from their parents.) The children have to sleep in a small cramped room with one bed all together.

To get the fortune Count Olaf comes up with a cunning plan, him and his theatre troupe put on a play and asks Violet to be in it. This play is about a wedding and he asks Violet to be the bride! With an official judge reading out the bindings the wedding becomes real and the readings say that the bride must share the fortune with the husband! Luckly, Mr.Poe finds out in the last second and puts a stop to the wedding but unfortunately he doesn't put a stop to Count Olaf and he is free to track the Baudelaire orphans once again and put more misery into their miserable lives.
I liked how Lemony made everything seem more miserable.
Rating: I'm going to give this book 8 out of 10!!



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Bureau of Mysteries by HJ Harper

This book is set in a small town called Little Obscurity in the late 1800s and is about a boy called George Feather, aged 12 (who is a chimney sweep) joins a secret society called the Bureau of Mysteries. He discovers this organisation when his boss (Ezekiel Grimes, better known as Grimy) takes him to the Brass Castle Hotel to clean the chimneys. George is basically Grimy's spy, bringing him back any juicy info so he could blackmail the manager for more money. When George climbs up the chimney he immediately panics, he had never been up a chimney this high before. He loses his grip on the side of the chimney. Instead of landing on a log fireplace he lands on a corridor with a door at the end. When he reaches the door he finds a note, it says "the Clockwork Octopus Society will finish what they started."
When George joins the Bureau of Mysteries he meets Hobb, the brains of the operation, Tempora the engineer and Imp, the experienced cryptographer (which means code cracker.)
When George joins he becomes an apprentice cryptographer and all of them together must defeat the Clockwork Octopus Society.
The first criminal is called Phil Lament, the engineer of the gang with his mechanical arm. George defeats him in a epic battle in the town's clock tower but Phil almost escapes on his mechanical dragon!
The second criminal is called Lady Lenora Ravenscroft (she can talk to ghosts!) This time George and Imp stop her from stealing all of Little Obscurity's wealthiest people's gems and capture her three ghost cronies, Rishin, Tom and Paul T. Giest.
The third criminal is called Dr. Morry Artery, the brains of the gang. George and Imp find him in the drowned quarter of Little Obscurity which is the underwater part of the town. The Dr. has an army of murkmaids (which are people but have been mutated into fish bodies and have been stripped of their memory), and a prisoner called whalen (half man-half whale.) They catch the Dr. when he tries to escape in his Octopod (a submarine in the shape of a octopus.)
The final battle is against the leader of the gang which is suprisingly Grimy! Imp warns the Bureau of mysteries and Hobb and Tempora change the Brass Castle Hotel into a brick person and crush Grimy. The end shows George becoming a full member of the Bureau of Mysteries.
I liked this book because of its funny illustrations and funny characters. Rating: 9 out of 10!!

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