Thursday, February 25, 2010

Molly Moon Book 4- Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine

Molly Moon Book 4- Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine

Last week I read the fourth and final addition to the Molly Moon series.

In this book Molly finds out that she actually has a twin brother. She promises her parents that she will go and find him. Her and Rocky go back in time to her birth, and follow his kidnapper forward in time to when he lands. She finds out that a young "princess" called Fang and her fellow companions have a machine that whips out people's minds and can put those memories into another person. She realizes that they are only using Micky to harvest his hypnotic powers when one day, the machine can also take out talents. Fang whips out her hypnotic powers and takes her crystals rendering her practically helpless!

Rocky gets hypnotized and Molly has to fend for herself. She gets help from Micky's old nanny, Nurse Meekles and together her, Petula, and Micky have to go on a wild adventure! Molly finds that on top of hypnotism, time- traveling, and time stopping she has another ability, to read minds!

The way that Micky acts like he isn't her twin, even though they look almost identical is crazy! I think that he just doesn't want to believe it so much that he doesn't believe it! Even though Micky was terrible, it is hard not to feel bad for him! He has just been so manipulated that he is that way. It is hard to think about how he has been living his whole life in the future without many friends. In the meantime Molly maybe hasn't had the best life, but she has had Rocky, Petula, and all her friends at the orphanage.

I like the whole futuristic ways of life that they portray. The part at the zoo was the coolest! All of the different breeds that scientists were able to make. Wildgust and Tortillus were so nice to Molly and Micky! Even Petula found that she could talk to someone, a bird named Silver. They were two men that were mutants. They, unlike everyone else in that village and surrounding areas, hadn't been under the effect of hypnotism. They were able to help Micky and Molly because of this fact. There was also a crazy scientist named Selkeem. He was just a boy, like Princess Fang, but he was smart! He also is a bit crazy! Slowly, through the zoo part, Micky starts to really loosen up!

In the end, of course, there are surprises like in every book of this series! But I, of course, don't want to spoil the ending for you! This was a great series and I hope you might want to read them some time!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Molly Moon series book 3- Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

Molly Moon Book 3- Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

Last week I read the third Molly Moon book, Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure.

After their wild trip to Los Angeles, Molly and Rocky return to Briersville Park. She is just looking around when she notices a strange looking gardener with a turban on his head. She figures that he is just strange and continues on. But then when she is watching Petula approach the man something odd happens! Petula and the gardener disapper! At first Molly is scared so she goes out and looks over the area. Suddenly she sees a flash going side to side and she keeps following it with her eyes until the turbaned man appears in front of her. He had put her in a trance! So he holds on to Molly and BOOM, they flash into a whirl wind, they are time traveling! Molly is in a trance so she can’t say a thing she just thinks hard. The man stops at a time and picks up Petula where he had left her.

Together they went and met a man names Waqt. He was in control of Zackya, the man who took Molly. He wanted Zackya to pick up a Molly before she learned hypnosis so he could kill her before she learned and then she would never foil his plans (he was the one who was actually in control of Primo and the Logans.) But she acted the a spoiled child and didn’t let him feel in control. So he goes back in time and gets the baby version of Molly, a three year-old, a six year-old, ten year-old version of Molly, Forest, Rocky, and a puppy Petula. It turns out that there are red and green stones to control time travel. Waqt wants to kill them but he doesn’t. He doesn’t because he knows that the younger Mollys’ would help him get crystals. See, Waqt knows of the thing called the Bubble of Light (which heals the wrinkly skin that time travel gives them).

So after Waqt tells them this he chains Molly, Forest, and Rocky to the wall. Molly knows that she needs to get out of the chains and she sees Petula sucking on a stone. So she calls Petula over to see if the rock is sharp but it turns out to be a time-traveling stone! So Molly experiments with time traveling. She goes back and gets the keys to unlock them. She gets them out and tries to form a plan. She can remember everything that happens to the little girls through their memories.

Over a period of time she watches for Waqt and the little Molly’s and thinks of the thoughts. One day they meet a boy named Ojas who helps them get an elephant and get across town. But when they are traveling back in time to 1870 Zackya steals her stones and Petula! He knows that she will want to come back to Petula so it is like a bribe.

She finds one green stone that can travel back in time. So she goes back in time. They are floating on a lake when she sees the body that is most likely a dog body, Petula! She is enraged and she knows that she can do nothing. But then Forest thinks of an idea that he once heard. That time is a big wheel so if you go back far enough time will start again.

Now if I said anymore it would ruin the end. Again, this book is just like every other book, with a huge surprise!

If I had to pick a favorite character it would either be Ojas or Forest. Ojas is so friendly even though he is a thief and he helps them so much! He just seems so fun! Forest is a meditating hippie that always has these crazy ideas! He just always tells everyone to be calm and relax.

This is the best book out of the series so far! I hope that you will raed this and the series!

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Molly Moon series book 2- Molly Moon Stops the World

Molly Moon Book 2- Molly Moon Stops the World
Last week I started to read the sequel to the first Molly Moon book. It is called Molly Moon Stops the World by Georgia Byng.
One average day after Molly has been back she receives a call from the librarian, Lucy, telling her to come over to her house. While heading over there Molly sees a bush shaped like an animal. She wonders whether or not she can hypnotize a bush like she can a living creature. But when she tries to hypnotize the bush she gets a strange cold feeling throughout her. She blows it off and continues. When she gets there Lucy is in a large cast and says that she has gotten in a major car crash. After that, Lucy informs her that there is a super talented hypnotist that is planning to become president. She tells Molly that she needs to go to Los Angeles to try to get information and try to take down the man, Primo Cell. So Molly packs up the whole Happiness House Orphanage and tells them that they have to go and work for an anonymous benefactor.
When they get to Los Angeles they check into a beautiful hotel! Molly and Rocky get to work right away while the others enjoy the trip. One day when they are all lounging at the pool Molly tries to summon this cold fusion feeling again and discovers that it stops the world! And her crystal helps her to resist the freeze! While they are there Rocky and Molly discover how bad this Primo really is! She is a spectacular hypnotist but he is even better! With the help of his son and daughter he has practically hypnotized the whole world! His next step, they find out, is to become the president!
After finding out so much and coming close to defeating him, Primo dicovers them snooping in his home. He straps them to this machine that will, no doubt, kill them! They are so scared and right before it hits them Molly freezes the world. But freezing the world makes her tired and she knows she can’t hold on much longer. So right before she slips everything blanks out!
Now at the end of this book the most unexpected things happen, and the surprises are endless! But if you told you any further it would ruin the whole surprise! So if you really would like to know what happens, read the book!