Becoming The Dragon

The Storyline was very good, but it was not the same as the book. The director made a good choice with having the intro be with the girl in the red dress because if they did that in the middle of the movie as a flashback, then that would have made it confusing for the audience. This choice was good and even better than the book because it made the storyline easier to understand.

One may argue that this book was too long and partly too descriptive in both the storyline and the characters, which made it hard to follow the storyline throughout the book.

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

It is very shocking to read about the journeys he goes through, traveling all over New York, just to find his parents while taking care of his siblings. I really enjoy how the author puts tension into Alex's day-to-day struggles through chilling moral dilemmas, whether to rob the dead, who to save during a food riot and how long to preserve the hope that his parents might return. Throughout the book, it was amusing to read and notice how Alex matures as he goes through each obstacle, caring more and more for his sisters and wondering if they all will ever see their parents alive again. The journeys he goes on involve several natural disasters making the novel so astounding. Just imagine seeing volcanic eruptions and tsunamis flood all the way to New York City.

The plot was uncertain at times but overall was detailed enough to present the over all struggle of one mans' journey through the cosmos. The transitions from one chapter to the next were very well organized. Through many weeks passes in the book, it seamed to flow into one seamless efficiently written story.

Alex and Zee wind up in solitary confinement, and even though he never though that would be possible, Alex starts to miss the safety and comfort of his old cell in the general population. “The hole” is a terrible place, and as Alex went deeper and deeper into despair, he was visited by a boy named Simon, who lives

The author did a brilliant job of putting together all the facts of every aspect of what happened but at times I felt bogged down with all the information. Therefore, the prose was not badly written it felt overwritten also containing an overabundance of

     I believe that this was a pretty decent book, at times it was boring and

I cared about what was going to happen to these characters and even though I saw what was going on through each characters eyes I still questioned which one was truly in the right. This book does start to go into relationships between characters much more than, Legend, using love triangles, relationships that, "would just never work out," and more than one stolen kiss. This was a part of the book that I was expecting, but at first I did not really buy it and it seemed overly complicated and forced at times. Eventually however I got swept up in the crazy relationships and truly cared about who was going to be with who. Overall this book exceeded my expectations and was really interesting to read. Almost every chapter had a "wow" moment that made me keep reading. I wish the author had eased into the love triangles slightly more to make it seem more natural, but it works out in the end.

The book itself was hard to comprehend for me because it was so detailed I didn’t remember the important parts. It was a good story with a good moral but I never was excited or eager to read it. In other words it never put me on the edge of my seat. So basically what i’m saying is that this story was boring. Yes there was some action but it wasn’t intense in my opinion. To make this book better I would say don't depict the details on what doesnt matter and focus more on the moral or the lesson of the story. But the book did very well putting the lesson out there, but adding more detail would make it that much easier to

On to the positives! From the plot line to the writing style, to the character development, it was well put together. Quite a few times, I even found myself looking up certain words as I had never seen or heard them before. I, for one, will not complain about learning some new complex words. The pacing was also steady, once I started reading the book, I found it difficult to put down, especially towards the end, when everything came to a head. Lastly, the character development was wonderful.

He is deceiving his parents, Pee and Em, insinuating that he has a job and that is why he is out all night and comes home with a bunch of money. Instead, he is out causing havoc among the city. He and his droogs start off every night by going to the Korova milk bar. There they go out to see the old ladies where they buy drinks and make friends with the old ladies so that the older ladies can cover for them. There are a couple of events in the night that happen and show the reader Alex’s true colors. There is an incident with and old drunk man in the streets. The man is talking about how the kids have ruined his beautiful country. Alex and his friends decide that this man has to be stopped and proceed to beat the hell out of him and leave him there to rot. Alex and his droogs also run into someone around their age in the night. The only difference between Alex and his droogs and this kid is that; this kid is a bookworm and is more into books rather than violence. They harass this kid by beating the hell out of the kid and shredding all of his reading material. They also arrive at a shop where they decide that they want to go in and rob the shop owner. Though they are young, Alex and his friends are smart. They use Masks to go in and rob this store of their cigarettes and money. While in the process of robbing this man and his store they also decide to just have fun with him and torture him. Alex and his

This book was just a mess for me. It seemed like the wrong direction for this book to take, with so much of the story being taken up with travelling, and the reader being assaulted with new people, new places and new things every hundred pages. It was too much at once, and there was at least two books worth of content in Shadow Scale, and it was really too much information and not enough actual story. Seraphina struck the right balance of story and character development,

How would you feel if you were plunged into a world of chaos in one split second. That is what a average teenager Alex felt during a normal day at his home in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Alex show a lot of bravery during the book was daring enough to travel 6 weeks to find his parents and was very kind to people on the way, maybe even too kind.

Some readers did not like the book, feeling that they had no connection with the main character and felt that they took way too long to figure things out and just go over and over the same clues, getting nowhere with them. Some thought there was a good idea, but that the author does not do a great job of executing it. Some readers seemed to be missing something, almost as though part of the novel was missing, and you were just supposed to know who everyone