Independent+Novel+Study+3


 * Birth Marked**
 * p.g. 149-218**

The book is written in modern language, so it's pretty easy to understand the language and context of the book. The characters in the book speak the same way I do in real life. For example, here is some of the text from the book itself, "If you're Madbrother Iris, do you know where my mother is?" "Of course I know where your mother is, but now, you need to watch this."
 * Is the language in the novel difficult or easy? GIve examples and explain.**

Even though I haven't completed reading my novel yet, I would totally recommend this novel to a friend because it's extremely captivating. When I first started reading the novel, I was really happy with the plot and story itself, but also a little disappointed because I didn't want to stop reading, yet had to. This novel also has great imagery, so great, in fact, that I can almost imagine I was there myself when the events took place.
 * Why would you (or why wouldn't you) recommend this novel to a friend?**

The author simply got me to read his book by the short summary he/she wrote on the back of the book. It got me interested, so I decided to start reading it. The author held my interest because he kept adding new plots. I'm not exaggerating, every time I turned the page, there was a new plot. I'm predicting that the author isn't going to sum up everything in this book, partly because I'm guessing and partly because I looked the author up and saw that he was planning to make this book a trilogy. I think that's a great idea because he really is a very good author whom I look up to now as a writer.
 * How does the author get you to read on or hold your interest?**