Nate's Book Reviews

By Nate Feldman Buster the dog is in big trouble!  He has violated one of dogkind's most sacred codes.....never let humans know how intelligent dogs really are and that they are able to communicate with one another!  But, Buster revealed this to Tonio, his young owner, and now he is at dog court and will be sentenced to life on the farm, a form of punishment for bad dogs, if found guilty! Buster admits to the court that he is guilty as charged, but he recounts why he showed Tonio the secrets of the dog world.  Tonio lives in a small town in South Carolina with his parents.  Tonio suffers from severe anxiety and has massive panic attacks often.  For that reason, he struggles socially with other kids.   Buster is a service dog for Tonio to help him deal with his anxiety.  He wants Tonio to make friends, so Buster tries to connect him with Mia, a girl in town who likes card games like Tonio does.   Tonio's anxiety continues to get in the wa...

  By Nate Feldman Sunrise on the Reaping is the fifth entry in the extremely successful Hunger Games series of books.  For those unfamiliar with the original trilogy and fourth story in the series, the books are about Panem, a fictional country, where an evil Capitol has forced 12 surrounding districts to put a boy and a girl into an arena in an event known as the Hunger Games, where the participants will all fight to the death until only one survives as a means of entertainment.  The purpose of this is to punish the districts for an uprising they had many years before due to mistreatment and inequality.   Sunrise on the Reaping takes place during the fiftieth Hunger Games, twenty four years before the original trilogy.  The protagonist and narrator is Haymitch Abernathy from District 12, who served as a mentor to Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the first three books.  The fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the second Quarter Quell (a special type o...