Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Revived ~ Cat Patrick 1





This author has a very creative mind. With this book there are a group of kids that got in a bus crash. They were rescued by a group of scientists who were testing this medication called Revive. What Revive does is it brings people back from the dead. When they used it on those kids it worked. So the kids became the scientists "guinea pigs". Now when I say it like that, it sounds really mad scientisty. It's not. The scientists take a kid and pretend like the kid's parents. In a way they are. The kids really love them and have grown up with them. One of these kids is Daisy. She has died 5 times. Right now she is 15. Every time she has died she has gotten a new name, new place, new identity. She is used to not getting attached to any place, not to make any good friends because if she does it would be harder to keep Revive a secret. But then she meets Audrey McKean and her gorgeous brother, Matt. Let's us just say she goes against all of her instincts and she gets attached.

Now, I am not done with this book yet. So the most fun thing to do is to make a prediction of course! :)

My first prediction is that Daisy will end up telling Matt about Revive for reasons that only you'll know by reading the book. And after she tells him he will get mad and they will get in a really bad fight but of course like in any romance novel they will find a solution and will make up and live a happily ever after!
" 'I really like you,' Matt continues. 'You're like this good thing that showed up in the middle of the bad. You're sort of helping me remember that there actually is positive stuff out  there.' "(132)

*SPOILER ALERT*

My second prediction is they use Revive on Audrey because she is going to die of cancer. The only reason she hasn't done it yet is because first of all they are supposed to keep it a secret and second of all it won't work on cancer because the body has to die healthy but from a sudden death. With cancer, you always have this illness that you die from. But I predict that they will(and this sounds violent; don't judge) make Audrey die a sudden death before she dies from cancer.

" 'How long did they give her?' I ask.
'Three years,' Matt says. 'It's been two and a half.' " (109)

I have to decided not just to put a prediction but make a connection based on my prediction! I have made text-to-text connection. In the book, Daisy spots Matt in class and immediately thinks he is "flat-out, undeniably, unbelievably, hot."(34) And this happens almost exactly in another book. Can you guess which book I am thinking about? Yep! Twilight!! When Bella sees Edward in the lunchroom, she saw him and thought that he was gorgeous too. And like my prediction they of course get together and live the happily ever after.

In the video is the first time Bella sees Edward and his family.


1 comment:

  1. I really love this blog post. What I really like about it is that you use a very clear voice that is your own like Mrs. Bowman was talking about doing in our authentic experience narrative. This book seems alike a really interesting read. I also really like how there's a person in the book named Audrey...you don't see that often.

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