Genius by Leopoldo Gout

你好, Kedu, and Hola my bibliophiles,
I suppose that very few of you know what the words above mean, but that's part of the fun. If you really want to know then go translate it. What do words in foreign languages have to do with books you ask? Well everything for some books and nothing for others. The subject of this review lies somewhere in between. This is about a book called Genius by Leopoldo Gout.
Genius is about a LODGE,group of three teenagers, who are put into a contest of two hundred of the smartest people under the age of eighteen. LODGE is made up of Rex, Tunde, and Painted Wolf. Each of them has a different set of skills but together they make a great team.
On to the characters.
Rex- sixteen year old Mexican American and one of the best programmers/hackers in the world. All he wants is to find his older brother who ran away two years ago.
Tunde- fourteen year old, Nigerian, self-taught engineer who can build anything out of anything.
Painted Wolf- sixteen year old Chinese activist blogger. No one knows who she actually is.
Kiran Biswas- twenty year old Indian tech mogul who founded won of the leading tech companies in the world before he was eighteen. He's hosting the game.
General Iyabo- corrupt general in Nigeria who tells Tunde he got in but demands that Tunde build him a high-powered GPS jammer while he's there or he will kill his family.
So this was an absurdly amazing book and I can't wait to read the sequel. I give it ten of ten paw prints. Personally I recommend it for seventh or eighth graders and up.
So long my dears,
Merlin:)

Genuine Fraud E. Lockhart

Yoohooo! Hello there my dears!
Tis I Merlin once again resuming Informing you of the plots of various books. In today's episode we will hear about E. Lockhart's new book Genuine Fraud.
I personally love E. Lockhart and could not wait for this book to come out, so here goes. This was a good book (yes I know that this is not quite up to my usual word choice but it's coming) however it was rather confuzling. Describing this book will be hard for to reasons 1)I'm still not sure of everything myself and 2) The chapters are not chronological they go backwards. This makes everything a bit more confusing because you have a vague idea of what happened but then what happened isn't what you expected at all. Not to mention that it is laced with lies.
Okay the main characters:

• Imogen- she's an heiress who is left a lot of money but doesn't want to be that person anymore.
• Jule- She is way more complicated but I can't get into that without spoiling sooo much so for now let's say that she is a social chameleon and fighter.

The plot can't be explained without spoiling things so this will be short. Jule and Imogen are best friends but then there is an incident. A murder or two, dreams galore, and girls who refuse to be who they are told to be. It goes backwards so I can't really describe it.
I say that this book is not suitable for those under the age of thirteen. I enjoyed the suspense of this book and would give it ten paw prints. 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Goodbye my dear bibliophiles,
Merlin:)