Blog Post # 1 - Identifying.

{ February 17, 2012.}

Myracle, Lauren. Bliss. New York: Amulet Book, 2008.Print.

Identifying

There are three qualities I expect as a reader of said novel. The first, that it is interesting and can catch me when first reading it. Books that don't catch me within the first two chapters, I will not continue to read. I am a huge fan of books about teenagers and romance stories. I feel, that I can understand and connect to the characters in the story. In doing so, I can understand the book with more detail, where I can then make textual, worldly, and of course personal connections to the book. The last quality, is that the novel has lots of action and suspense. If the writer can not keep me motivated to read the book, to me, it is not worth the effort or time to force myself upon reading it. Therefore, the three qualities I expect, as a reader, is that it is interesting and can catch me when I first read it, that there are teens and romance and that the novel has suspense as well as adventure and action.
The novel I am currently reading, and that I am almost finished, Blhiss, has all the three qualities that I have listed above. The book is in the perspective of a teenager named Blhiss, who has an unnatural ability to hear the voice of a dead woman at her new school. This novel, also contains a bit of drama between her two friend groups, as well as romance between Blhiss and an boy named Mitchell, who is a year older than her. And finally, Blhiss has yet to discover that her 'friend' is actually plotting to use her as a sacrifice in order to revive the woman who died at her school. 
Therefore, this novel contains all of the qualities I have listed above.