I also enjoyed the fact that all the characters were very different from each other.

Lastly my book had romance not a lot but a little bit when their mother fell in love with Murdoch which ended up ending quite dramatically.Saying this my book had lots of different emotions for me as the reader which I enjoyed. Like when they all faught and hid from eachother because they were upset.My novel also had some action involed like when they were driving home with their mother and she went crazy and drove on the wrong side of the road. However I also found that my novel had many different genres mixed into it. I say this because it started off quite well with lots of action when you first learn about the mother, But as I got to the middle of the story it seemed to be getting repetitive like I was reading the same parts over and over.It was getting hard for me to finish the book I felt I was getting nowhere. While reading this novel I found that it was alright. The story was in the perspective of the main character of the book,Matt.The book was written for his little sister Emmy for the future so she could read back and see how tough times were.Matt mostly wrote about His mom's anger issues and how she neglects and abuses them. (Mar.The rules of survival is a fictional novel written by Nancy Werlin. Slade's portrayal of Newton's sweep of emotions as he deals with his perceived fate-fear, fury, dogged determination-is especially convincing. ) offers readers plenty of humor (often at Newton's expense), as well as asides that include e-mails, character background and recipes. In brisk chapters, Slade ( Megiddo's Shadow But finding answers about the Starker “curse” isn't as easy. Stubborn and obsessed with all things culinary (especially truffles), Newton gains a new friend, an enemy/love interest and a pig with a talent for finding hidden objects in short order. (The teen's father, not part of the bloodline, is not a lightning magnet.) Now, Newton has enrolled at the Jerry Potts Academy for Survival in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and hopes to avoid a similar fate.

Check it again”-but even they couldn't save Newton's mother, killed two years earlier.

The family keeps a set of rules-“Beware of cumulonimbus clouds,” “Check the weather. The premise will snag readers immediately: except for his great-grandmother and father, every member of 14-year-old Newton Starker's family has been killed by lightning.

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