Sunday, March 12, 2017

Attack on Titan: Volume 12

Attack on Titan Vol. 12

This well known manga series and anime has been dubbed one of the greatest works of anime and manga. The author of the series Hajime Isayama keeping readers coming back.

Previously Eren, Armin, and Mikasa along with the rest of the Survey Corps discovers that Bertlot and Reiner are the Armored and Colossal titans. After battling with the armored Titan and losing Eren and Yimir are captured and taken to the forest of giant trees. Now Erwin the leader of the Survey Corps devise a plan to rescue Eren and Ymir. Their plan is quite simple there are 3 groups one to ride straight at them as a distraction than two groups one on each side to ride use their 3D Maneuvering Gear to go up into the trees and get Eren and Ymir and to kill Reiner and Bertlot if it comes to that. Meanwhile on the border of the Forest of Giant Trees Bertlot and Reiner look out on the land looking for Survey corps and talk about their plan of what to do once they get Eren and Ymir to the secret village. Just out of earshot behind them Eren and Ymir talk about their own escape plans. Their plan is as soon as they move out both Eren would turn in to his Titan form and run also carrying Ymir then when he exhausted his power they would trade Ymir running in her Titan form and carrying Eren. But just as Bertlot turns back to check on Eren and Yimir Reiner sees the frontal team charging at them. To keep them occupied Reiner turns into the armored Titan and Bertlot grabs Eren and Ymir and hops onto The armored Titan. The teams that were going to run in from the side missed their chances so they grouped up and charged at them from behind. The armored Titan just kept running and Mikasa being Ming the front chargers saw Eren on top of the Titan and jumped off of her horse and grappled onto the Titan to go get Eren the armored Titan saw her coming and hit her out of the air. Seeing this Eren immediately broke through his bonds and jumped off of the Titan to go get Mikasa Bertlot and Reiner didn't care at this point they needed to escape but they kept Ymir with them. But after seeing Mikasa was okay Eren would not let Bertlot and Reiner escape for betraying them and breaking the walls. So Eren tried turning into a Titan but for some reason it didn't work but instead a bunch of random titans came out of nowhere and started attack the armored Titan and that is where this volume ended.


For me this book is one of the best in the series it had plenty of action good story and overall flowed very well I definitely recommend it but make sure you read the other 11 volumes first but they are worth it because of the great story and amazing characters that you get attached to. I give this book a 9.5/10. It's not 10/10 because the cliffhanger.


Book Review by Jared N.

Friday, March 10, 2017

Lockdown

The book I read is lockdown by Alex Gordon Smith. The book is based off of a prison in hell Called the furnace, the whole story is about a prison in hell full of teenage boys that did bad things. And some of them gets executed for no reason.the main character Alex is 14 and framed of murder do his best friend.

I liked this book a lot because it has a apacolyples type of feel to it, and it's a horror story to which makes it even better. I really suggest all you horror book readers to read his book because most of them are good.



Book Review by Brenton T.