Unnaturals: The Battle Begins

Unnaturals: The Battle Begins

By Devon Hughes

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Perfect for fans of the Animorphs and Warriors series, Devon Hughes's exhilarating debut is full of friendship, heroism, high stakes, and epic adventure.

Castor has always been a stray, prowling with his pack in the back alleys of Lion's Head. That is, until the day that he's captured and taken to a dark laboratory full of terrifying creatures. They're called Unnaturals, and they're made to fight.

Soon Castor is transformed from a mutt into a powerful beast with huge eagle wings—and he's thrust into the fighting ring. He knows he'll need all of his courage to survive. But it will take unexpected human and animal allies and something even more than courage for him to save the Unnaturals....

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
ISBN-13: 9780062257550
ISBN-10: 0062257552
Published on 3/7/2017
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 368

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I'm an absolute fan of the warriors series... but this? What is this? The first four chapters are okay, but then the fifth chapter rolls in, introducing stereotypical teen boy, Marcus. He likes the violence of the fights and calls his reasonably-concerned stepfather brutal, and mentions how uncool he is. Here's a list of everything wrong with this trash. 1. Characters get introduced just to be shoved aside at last moment and get barely mentioned again. Castors little brother, Runt, felt like he was going to be given a big role in the book. Well, not apparently since he is shoved aside nd barely talked about later on. Also, Laringo was supposed to be the villain, but yet the author made him look good and the big build-up of the story, the climax, barely lasted a chapter and made no sense. 2. Every character is a Gary stu or a Mary Sue, and nobody has flaws. Castor was so perfect that I kind of wanted to root for Laringo. Leesa, even though she often contradicted herself, was the only character with anything close to actually having depth. I thought she was tolerable in the beginning, but still gets her personality butchered. 3. Author doesn't explain things often, or very well. NEVER in the story does she mention it being the future. She also has these weird chapter things where everything is in second person and in bold. I'm still not sure if it's how the author shows a dream, or if the author just wanted to add in more filler. Either way, these parts get incredibly boring and is overly descriptive. All the characters were shallow, one-sided animals who acted nothing like animals. I think the author tried to make it depressing and gory, but she failed miserably. If you really want book masterpieces from a dog's point of view, read A Dogs Life or Child of Wolf. This really hurt to read, and I suggest you don't do what I did and pick up this book.

We start this marvelous, awe-inspiring, journey with a classically lovable approach - we find Castor living on the streets - and yet, even from the very first chapter, I began to love Castor more and more. It's truly a rare thing to bond with the character from the first chapter; it takes very powerful writing to do such a thing. Mrs. Devon keeps the chapters flowing so smoothly that I could not put this book down. After we get a proper introduction to Castor's lowly existence on the street and discovering more of who he is, something terribly sad happens. He is tranquilized, taken from everything he knows and cares about, and caged. A needle is injected into his body. And then wings begin to sprout from his body. Then he is put in another cage - a permanent one. He is forced to endure horrendous beatings and death and despair. He is also forced to fight brutally deadly matches. But throughout all the agony, he has hope. I recommend this book to anyone - whether you're a dog-lover or cat-lover or anywhere in between, you will be cheering for Castor the whole way through.