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Untrustworthy Doofus’s mind is blown by the crazy ride of “Full Tilt.”
Title: Full Tilt
Author: Neal Shusterman
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 
Neal Shusterman’s Full Tilt will stretch your mind with its psychedelic imagery. It’s a fantasy in an amusement park that turns out to be full of danger. Blake, a sixteen-year-old, visits his town’s regular amusement park, where he receives a strange invitation from a mysterious yet beautiful girl to go to a different, unknown amusement park. With two friends, he follows his younger brother to the new park: an unreal carnival. Once they enter, they learn that they have to complete seven impossible rides before dawn if they want to get out alive. One ride, for instance, features bumper cars that turn into real cars trying to ram each other in the dangerous alleyways of a city. Will they survive and make it out of the park?
I loved this book because it’s chock full of very immersive imagery. It has a completely unique plot that intensifies with each page. It pulled me in, and once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop.
Reviewer: Untrustworthy Doofus
Age: 14
Untrustworthy Doofus gives high praise to “Bruiser.” This review is an EXEMPLAR!
Title: Bruiser
Author: Neal Shusterman
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Rating:
I just read a fantasy book for young adults titled Bruiser, by Neal Shusterman, that made me feel tremendous sympathy and empathy for the characters. Bruiser is about a kid everyone calls The Bruiser, who wants to have friends, but shuts them out at the same time. When Tennyson’s twin sister, Brontë, becomes The Bruiser’s girlfriend, Tennyson is bothered by it and investigates. He discovers that the Bruiser steals pain from everyone he cares about. When someone breaks an arm, for example, The Bruiser’s arm breaks instead.
What I like most about this book is that Shusterman is a master at switching perspectives between multiple protagonists. Bruiser shows the power of emotions to their fullest extent when the twins’ parents are affected by his “gift” in a strange way. I would rate this book 5 stars!
Reviewer: Untrustworthy Doofus
Age: 14
First Review! Untrustworthy Doofus writes about the darkness of “Unwind.”
Title: Unwind
Author: Neal Shusterman
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian
Rating:
The Unwind dystology (a four-book series), by Neil Shusterman, is a book that will make fear for the future. Unwind is the first book in this young adult science-fiction series, and is my all-time favorite. Unwind has a dark topic: after a war, a scientist discovers a way to use 99.44% of a human body for life-saving implants. Without the scientist’s permission, the government decides to begin the process of “unwinding,” in which parents can decide if they want their misbehaving kid to be unwound between the ages of 13 and 18.
I like how the author chose to write from many different perspectives, switching between characters for each chapter. The characters act and talk like real people, and the plot is so full of action that once you start reading it, you can’t stop. I would rate this book five stars out of five!
Reviewer: Untrustworthy Doofus
Age: 13
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