Melanie's+E-Journal

// Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 //
 * __ E-Journal Entry 1 (chapters 1-9) __**

I am happy to have gotten my first, and only, book of my choice. Before even reading the book I knew I would like Night Runner because, I have read a book similar to I except the guy in the mental ward didn’t have serious allergies. I liked how the author started the book by having a motorcycle accident, it was a different starting then the ones I am used to. I enjoyed reading this book and wondering what was going to happen next. As much as I liked that the motorcycle man came back I would have liked to read that his Uncle came back and saved him from the mental institute instead because his Uncle said that he would come back and get him the night he broke out. If I could I would change the story and make it that his father didn’t die and somehow made it out of the mine collapse alive. I think this would make it ruin the story because the only reason he turned into a vampire was because he wanted to investigate the mine collapse. The main character is Daniel Zachariah Thomson. Zack has serious allergies, he is allergic to all foods and sun light. Zack’s parent are both dead. His father was an archaeologist, supposedly, and he died at a dig. At first I found it strange that Zack liked being covered in other people’s blood. But then, we found out that he a is vampire around the begging of chapter 9. I found it interesting that his father was an undercover vampire hunter.

// Friday, January 28th, 2011 //
 * __ E-Journal Entry 2(chapters 10-26) __**

Nurse Ophelia all of a sudden disappeared and I still wonder where she went. The main character, Zack, thinks something bad must have happened because she was never late for work ever and if she was she would have told him. Zack was in a “Safe House” but it turns out that it wasn’t quite accurate. Zack was attacked by a giant bat that hovers, and worse yet there were people trying to break in. Luckily for him he got out alive but as he was running away he landed on a car and broke his arm. I wonder who was chasing him and if they were the “Fallen”. This part was very realistic because the author put in a lot of detail and used a lot of similes and metaphors. For example, “My stomach was buckling...” After Zack broke his arm he knew he had to go somewhere safe. He decided to go to his old house, the one he lived in before his father’s death. When he got there, he made a new friend, it was a huge, mean dog. I wonder why he never had the courage to go in there before. If I was Zack when he had to confront the dog I probably would have chickened out.

// Wednesday, January 2nd, 20﻿11 //
 * __ E-Journal Entry 3(chapter 26- The End) __**

I really liked this book and felt that it should have ended the way it did because, this way he gets to be with Nurse Ophelia, Charlie and Luna beca﻿use they are all now Vampires, just like Zack. I don't understand why Zack's uncle would have set him up face to face with his mother's and father's killer. His uncle seemed so nice when they were in the car driving to his office, but he did lie and tell him that the voices were coming from his earpiece when they were coming from duffle bags in the trunk. I think there are many explanations to this. One might be that he was actually brainwashed, like Zack thought, or he truly was evil. I would have liked it if the author, Max Turner, would have extended the book and added in more information. I would have liked this because I have many unanswered questions like, what exactly did his uncle and his dad do to Vampires who reached their limits and went insane because they have out lived all of their family and friends? What did his mother know about the Vampires and what roles did she play? What was going to happen to Charlie's girlfriend, Suki, now that he is a Vampire? Would Charlie turn her into a Vampire so that they could be together forever? What happened to the Baron before Charlie awoke, because he was missing? What would have happened if Charlie did die instead of being a Vampire? Sadly most of my Questions will not be answered. 

Hi Mel, A very thorough job at providing a summary of you novel. First, I am really pleased that you enjoyed it and that you like this genre. I think your insight and inferring skills are very strong and reading your posts, I too feel that this is a novel I would enjoy. Sometimes when the reader is left guessing, it is a clue that possibly a sequel will be written! You can only hope! As next steps, I challenge you to consider how you might answer your questions as the writer of the sequel! Kind of like our Chapter Summary for Maximum Ride by James Patterson! Well done!