I read the book Gregor and the Prophecy of the Bane. It is a book by Suzanne Collins and it is the second book out of a five book series. The main characters name his Gregor. His family is short on money so he has to wear old clothes and live in an apartment. He has two sisters name Lizzie and boots. Boots is 4 and Lizzie is 8. In the first book boots and Gregor fall into the Underland. It is a land filled with huge, five foot bloodthirsty rats, three foot cockroaches, oversized mice, ants and moths.
Down in the Underland Gregor is called the “warrior” and he’s supposed to kill a huge white rat called the bane. It’s supposedly the meanest, toughest and strongest rat of all. But Gregor is just a normal kid who likes school, friends, family and track, and they think he is just supposed to kill a huge bloodthirsty rat?! One day when Gregor is in the Underland they have Gregor do a test to see how many blood balls he can hit. Blood balls are little balls filled with water colored red. They are shot out of the cannon at the person doing the test, which is Gregor. He goes up to the cannons and boom! He hits all 15 of the blood balls. After that a rat called Twitchtip tells him that he rager. She says a rager is a “natural born killer”
After Twitchtip tells him he is a rager he fells sad, angry and proud all the same time. He feels proud because he has cool skills that you can’t learn. He also feels angry and sad because he doesn’t want to kill thing and have fun doing it.
There are many conflicts in this book because he and his are always getting in trouble and letting attacked by serpents, rats and many other creatures in the Underland. Gregors group is Luxa, Boots, Mareth, Howard and Twitchtip the rat. The have to overcome many obstacles through out the book to survive.
Since the book has so much action and suspense it is a book that keeps you thinking and hook on the book. This is a book for all ages and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.
