Being
By Kevin Brooks
This book is about a 16 year old boy named Robert Smith, who lives in Essex, England. He goes into the hospital for a routine endoscopy. His safe and comfortable life is soon destroyed by an intense discovery made by an innocent and unsuspecting doctor. What is he? Is he an alien from outer space? Is he a monster from the sewers? Is he a lab experiment gone wrong? So many questions, no answers. What he does know is that he needs to run away from a man named Ryan and his men, because they want 2 cut him up and find out whats wrong with him. Robert goes to the only person he can trust, Eddie. Will they run away and hide successfully or will Robert end up being cut up to pieces?
This book has a lot of description and vocabulary but is still easy to understand.
"Memories about his birth parents feel manufactured. Hopping around from foster home to foster home through the years, he doesn't recall ever getting sick or seriously injured. All he has are his dreams, and those bad dreams feel real enough."
This extract shows us the extensive use of vocabulary that the author has used. He uses a lot of description to introduce us to the environment. He uses all the five senses, sight, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. This is, why I think, he wrote this book excellently.
I recommend this book for anybody aged 12 - 16 who likes a slow but intense action book.
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