Book Reviews

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Reviewed by R. Yelk, October 2019

13 year old Anna Fitzgerald has only one purpose in life. To donate whatever her older sister, Kate, needs. Kate is dying from acute leukemia and becomes in desperate need of a kidney. But Anna is tired of always giving Kate a part of her and having no one think of her own health. Since she doesn’t want to give up her the kidney, Anna decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation. She is forced to make a decision, keep her kidney to maintain her own health or save her dying sister at her own expense? 

 

The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay

Reviewed by W. Erickson, July 2019

Main character Cate attends an isolated boarding school on an island where the internet is very difficult to access and there isn’t much to do around the area. So, among the students at the school there is a tradition, a game called Killer is a tradition only few are selected to play. Members who are chose to play the game must be avoid being “Killed” through a series of pranks and identify the murder. Only this time it's different: the game stops feeling fake and things start getting dangerous.