The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda A few weeks ago my little sister kept begging my mom to take her to the library and one of those days that my sister asked I volunteered to walk with her there. As we were in the little Olmsted Falls library I took her over to the teen section because she's a strong reader. While she was browsing I started to look around a little bit too and came across a book from the series The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda and it seemed intriguing so I did a little bit more digging until I found the first one. The Hunt is the name of the first book in the series and it's hard to put down. It's about this boy named Gene who seems like he's just another one of those shy studs that everyone talks about for a week or two but eventually just fades away to that kid everyone forgets about. And that's exactly the guy he wanted to be, unnoticed. The thing that was different about Gene was that he was a human, or a heper as they call it, in a world of vampires. Every day he had to make sure he didn't sweat, didn't laugh, didn't get called on because he couldn't see the board. He had to de everything he could to be invisible. But one day an announcement came on declaring there would be another lottery for a heper hunt. A heper hunt is when the winners of the lottery get to hunt down some of the few heper left and feast on them. Gene was one of the few lucky winners of the lottery... you can bet he was stoked. He struggles with young love, and hiding his identity throughout this book and I would suggest it to any teen looking for an easy read. The Hunt is a good book for any level of reading. It's written in a way anyone could understand and it won't be too challenging for struggling freshmen, but it's not so childish that an AP student would feel like they're losing brain cells.
Related Books: The Hunger Games Twilight Divergent I would give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
It's only getting 4 because it is a very intriguing read but something about the book feels a little bit strange and rather repetitive of many of the other popular books that are out right now. Other than that it is a very good choice book and I recommend it to every other high school student that's looking for something to read.
A few weeks ago my little sister kept begging my mom to take her to the library and one of those days that my sister asked I volunteered to walk with her there. As we were in the little Olmsted Falls library I took her over to the teen section because she's a strong reader. While she was browsing I started to look around a little bit too and came across a book from the series The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda and it seemed intriguing so I did a little bit more digging until I found the first one. The Hunt is the name of the first book in the series and it's hard to put down. It's about this boy named Gene who seems like he's just another one of those shy studs that everyone talks about for a week or two but eventually just fades away to that kid everyone forgets about. And that's exactly the guy he wanted to be, unnoticed. The thing that was different about Gene was that he was a human, or a heper as they call it, in a world of vampires. Every day he had to make sure he didn't sweat, didn't laugh, didn't get called on because he couldn't see the board. He had to de everything he could to be invisible. But one day an announcement came on declaring there would be another lottery for a heper hunt. A heper hunt is when the winners of the lottery get to hunt down some of the few heper left and feast on them. Gene was one of the few lucky winners of the lottery... you can bet he was stoked. He struggles with young love, and hiding his identity throughout this book and I would suggest it to any teen looking for an easy read.
The Hunt is a good book for any level of reading. It's written in a way anyone could understand and it won't be too challenging for struggling freshmen, but it's not so childish that an AP student would feel like they're losing brain cells.
Related Books:
The Hunger Games
Twilight
Divergent
I would give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
It's only getting 4 because it is a very intriguing read but something about the book feels a little bit strange and rather repetitive of many of the other popular books that are out right now. Other than that it is a very good choice book and I recommend it to every other high school student that's looking for something to read.
-Christine Bolton