Taken

     My eighteeth birthday is in a month, the only thing Gray Weathersby could think about as day after day went by. In Claysoot, every boy vanishes on his eighteenth birthday with no trace of how they were abducted..
     As soon as I read the first five pages, I immediately attached myself to Gray as I love his first name. Gray, to me, sounds like a very tough name, like a large grey wolf scouring the snow basin for anything it can get it's paws on. I also love his personality as it almost reminds me of mine; strong and brave hearted while also couragous and caring. Although, Gray also is very violent and he never seems to think through situations. Gray finds himself in a serious problem as his eighteenth birthday is coming up and he has to make a big decision. He either has to take a risk and see what lies after the wall,because of a note his mother left him, or be taken by the unknown.
    All throught the first quarter of the book, Gray searches and searches for answers but always seems to come up empty as to what lies beyond the great wall. Gray never gives up and is so determined to find out what's on the other side. Gray is more the 'speak before thinking' kind of guy where he'll say whatever is on his mind, or do anything he thinks of. Gray decides to leave the wall and search for whatever he can find with his love life Emma. They're thrown into many dystopians, or fictional societies used to draw attention to world issues in society or environment, and quickly realizes that most dystopians are just like his own, the bad guys being easy to figure out, except there's no abduction of young men on their eighteenth birthday.