Ruby Redfort Catch Your Death by Lauren Child

Hi Guys, this book is the 3rd Ruby Redfort book and is equally as good as the 1st and 2nd. Also, this is the first book that I've read on my new kindle! Hope you like it!

Ruby is off on another mission, though not one for Spectrum (the secret spy agency Ruby works for), this time to investigate the weird appearance of wild animals roaming around on the streets of Twinford. Ruby's mum has sighted a weird hippo in the Redforts' swimming pool and some of Ruby's best friends have seen strange animal appearances too.

While this is going on, Spectrum are doing a survival test for all their employees. They are dropped out of a helicopter into the woods and are left to make there way back to camp. (Warning! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!) Ruby gets a little bit too cocky and falls into a fast flowing river. Even though she survives, she checks into camp 13hrs after the end of the time limit. You know what that means - she failed. Fortunately for her, LB lets her off the hook (again!) but LB takes no prisoners. The next time she flops, that's it, she's out of Spectrum. As well as LB letting her off the hook, she also lets her investigate the current Spectrum case, The Missing Perfume Of Marion Antoinette. Some strange happenings have happened at the perfume launch. The perfumer who was up on stage at the time fainted! Spectrum began to piece information that they gathered together. They found that the perfume consisted of the smell of the cyan wolf (also known as the blue Alaskan wolf) which radiated such a smell that it would draw people in almost hypnotising them! The weird thing was... this wolf is extinct!

If you want to know what happens next, get the book for yourself!!!!!

This book is a wonderful addition to the Ruby Redfort series and I really hope that Lauren Child writes another book to maybe cap off the series because I still think there's more to come.

RATING: 10/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney

This is the eighth book in the bestselling Wimpy Kid series and has loads of crispy laffs (!!) included in its pages.

Rowley, Greg's best friend has ditched him and is instead hanging out with his girlfriend, Abigail (see Diary Of A Wimpy Kid - The Third Wheel.) Greg is trying to find new friends but it's proving to be a tough task and his options aren't the best. Even his little brother Manny has made a friend! Things are getting worse for Greg and he needs to think up something... and fast.

It's Easter and the Heffley family are off to Greg's Grandma's for the day. All of the family is there for the celebration. The family used to go to Meemaw's house (Greg's Great Grandma's house) for the day. Meemaw would do this egg hunt for the kids where she would buy some plastic eggs and put prizes in them but soon Meemaw began to get a little bit loopy and put some strange things in the eggs. The last egg hunt was the year that Meemaw passed away. Soon the relatives were wondering which one of them would get Meemaw's diamond ring. There was a lot of bickering but finally they decided that it was every relative for themselves and started to search for the ring. Aunt Laura looked in the photo albums to see if there was any trace of a will but there was nothing. They began to flick through the pages and found a clue to the ring's disappearance. In one picture, Meemaw had her ring on and was putting prizes in the plastic eggs, in the next picture, taken right after, Meemaw was holding up her homemade apple pie but the ring was no longer on her finger. It didn't take a genius to figure it out. In about five minutes every single adult was out in Meemaw's garden with one of those wicker baskets that are seriously overrated!

Greg's options for friends are at an all time low. He has resulted in looking in his brother's room for something that can help him with his big decisions (in the past, looking in his brother's room has proved very helpful.) He gets lucky and finds one of those magic eight balls that when you shake it an answer comes up in a small hole at the back. Can this eight ball really change Greg's luck or is it just a gimmick?

This book, for me, feels a little bit short but that's only because it's so good you want there to be more!

RATING: 7/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

All The Wrong Questions - When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

This is the second in the series of All The Wrong Questions and if you want a review of the first one it is also on my blog.
PS. I hope you got loads of presents and books for Christmas!! I did!

The first book has a very strong link to the second one so I suggest that you read the first book to get a good understanding of what's going on. In this book (as well as in the first one) Lemony Snicket is the main character. I know it sounds cheesy but it fits in really well.

Lemony Snicket is on another case but this time in search of a missing girl called Cleo Night, part of the wealthiest family in Stain'd-by-the-sea. Lemony doesn't know if it has something to do with the evil villain Hangfire who has a talent of mimicking people's voices or some other evil villain. Cleo Night is a brilliant scientist so Hangfire could use her for all sorts of reasons.

Lemony soon finds out that Mr and Mrs Night have been dosed with Laudanum, and drug that makes people go all crazy and forget anything that has recently happened in their lives. Lemony has already noted a suspect, Dr Flammarion, the person who has been injecting them with it. He calls upon Moxie Mallahan, a budding journalist and close friend, to help him do some research on Dr Flammarion. They both find that he worked on the Colophon Clinic, the clinic of a famous war hero called colonel Colophon who had an accident with a statue. (Get the book if you'd like to find out what happened!) Lemony decides to investigate. He calls up his old friends, the Bellepheron brothers too give him a ride up to Colophon Clinic. There is quite a crucial part to the story in the middle and coming up so I'll leave them out so as not to give too much away. (It includes Ellington Feint and her search for her father.)

I think that any Lemony Snicket book is a good book because they include a nice amount of humour and always leave you wanting to read more.

RATING: 9/10

The very cool Lemony Snicket website is here