Escape attempts have been futile. Ryan does have two other guys with him, Drew and Mike, the two guys that attacked Marco at the beginning of the story. But then the three of them try and team up with Marco to escape but no success. Ryan and Shay continue to build there relationship. Drew does ask who she is and tell him “my girlfriend”. No hesitation at all.

Lexi finally finds out what is going on. She was able to pry the secret out of her mother, who admits it is her fault. But she will continue to fight that she at the same time is not to blame. But Lexi doesn’t care. She makes sure that she keeps herself clean along with her newfound friends.

Shay is still at constant battle to keep her family safe. It seems that she finally gets it that even though Ryan does truly care, we will not set forth his entire effort to help her family to, but she does still like him none the less. Ryan and his friends do find another opportunity to escape. A couple of guys are down in the parking garage that are about to attempt to ram their cars through this wired door that is blocking the exit. There seems to only be plastic on the other side. He tells Shay to meet her there, but she never does show up. They start up the cars to prepare to leave. As they start the convoy and head towards the door they continue to speed up. As the first car hits the door it just smashes the front end and flips the car. The 2^nd car behind it hit the car and the third one that Ryan is in Steers out of the way and rolls. Nobody gets to hurt but they all get caged up right in the garage. But Drew is able to create enough of a whole in the cage that Ryan is able to slip out of the cage and take out the guard. He gets the keys and helps everyone else escape.

Later Marco runs down to the garage with Shay. They are gone but Marco grabs the walkie-talkie from the guard and his master key.

Ryan and all the others from the caravan wonder to through the mall towards the rock wall. But he is feeling sick. He has a fever and is very dehydrated. They go inside a sporting goods store where a man threatens to kill him. Eventually Mike is able to sneak up behind him and shoots him with a gun. He had stolen it from the cop without anybody else noticing. Ryan then passes out.

Shay and Marco stay together. Marco still does like shay but she does not feel the same way. They head towards the first aid area to check on her grandmother. She was getting even more and more sick. As she gets there she sees that her little sister is still ok. But soon her grandmother’s machines have a freak-out and doctors take her away. Shay and her sister freak out. Marco stays with them. Now Shay and her sister are starting to feel sick also but do not dare to tell the doctors. Soon another riot starts up and this time it is headed towards them at the first aid center. The doors break through and the people start to break in. Shay gets knocked onto the ground and is trampled. Marco carries her to safety.

Ryan wakes up. He is covered in blankets. He drinks some water and they start to think of a new way to escape. Ryan looks at the rock wall and thinks of an idea. There is a skylight right above it. They hook themselves up and everybody climbs up to the top and smash the glass. Many people at the bottom cheer. As Ryan climbs on top of the building a helicopter comes down upon them.

Shay wakes up and finds her sister. She is safe. She demands a doctor that was left behind in the riot to take her to her grandmother. As they pass through rows of dead bodies they see her body on a bead cold and stiff. She has also passed away.

The Senator sneaks away from everyone. She goes towards the ice rink that has been closed do to a malfunction in the coolant. As she opens the door it is plenty cold. She turns on the lights and sees hundreds of dead bodies.

This is the end.

The book “No Safety in Numbers” is very amazing so far in my opinion is very amazing. The author Dayna Lorentz seems like an author that I would read more of.  The book again I will state has been a very good read.

The story is given in the eyes between four teenagers, two boys and two girls, all of the same age, but very different lives. One of the boys is named Marco and he is Mexican. The only reason I do state this is because he is attacked and bullied for it a bit. But as he is being chased in the parking lot of the mall trying to get to work he hides in a janitor room. He quickly looks into one of the air ducts to hid in. As the coast is clear he sees a small machine in it. “That can’t be good” he said and then called 911.

You then meet Lexi who is the daughter of the state senator. Her mother the senator never seemed to care anymore but her father did. Lexi was a bit nerdy like him. Her and her family are at the mall trying to eat a lunch when for the millionth time her mother’s cell phone rings. But this time it seems bigger then usual. “Her expression changed…. “The found what?” She quickly ran out from her family after that.

Then you meet Ryan. He is a jock but pretty cool at the same time. Not some meat head like the rest of them. He is just looking around the mall at random. He goes into a store and looks into a rack and finds a girl inside that is just reading a book and listening to music. Her name is shay; She has a henna tattoo of a rose wrapping around her neck then blossoming on her cheek. He finds her very attractive but at the same time knows that she is different. Somewhat of a no no for him. But that’s just another thing that makes her attractive. Her being different and a little bit off limits. Only because she is not the same as everyone else. But then the mall is on lock down all of a sudden; Nobody is allowed to leave. She asks him to come with her to find her grandmother and little sister. She walks towards the entrance to the parking garage. They are not even to leave the store that they were in. there were to guards at the doors but he followed anyway even though he might get into trouble. The guards yell at them even as shay pleads to be allowed to go through. As they are forced to walk away shay gets a text from her grandmother saying that they were at the food court. As Ryan leaves her because he is afraid of getting into more trouble Shay gives him her number and the book she was reading full of poetry.

Shay you then get to follow in the book as she heads towards her family. She is upset for many reasons. One that she is confused about her feelings for Ryan, two that he kind of bailed on her because of the guards and three because she just gave him the book of poetry that was over  fifty years old that she had just recently received from her grandmother. As she is thinking about all these things she comes up to the the food court and sits down with her grandmother and watches her little sister play.

I am really enjoying this book because the mall is just getting worse and worse. Lexi’s mom gets even more distent. Marco trys to keep figuring out the truth. Shay’s grandmother is getting sick, possibly from her diebities, and Ryan is caught between shay and his friends, and other kids he rivals. Lexi does gain a new friend and Marco does learn new info. But much more has yet to get figured out. Now hazmat suited people are in the mall getting blood samples from people. Things are not looking good.

The Catcher in the Rye is a very well-known book. When I first saw it I was excited to grab it. However I was not ready for how depressing it was going to be. Throughout the entire book I could just feel myself becoming more and more depressed with the main character in it. Not only is he depressing but on every page it seemed there was always some moment when he was swearing.

The main character’s name was Holden Caufelid. Throughout the entire book he just keeps becoming more disappointed with life. Everything around him will at first give him some hope but then he will just get disappointed with every action and thought and everybody else and himself. It starts out with him getting expelled from his school and this is not the first one that this has happened. He is used to dealing with this and it does upset me. I am not the best student. My grades are not pretty at all. But I do try. It just takes me a while to really get going. But once I do motivate myself there will be nothing that stands in my way. I truly don’t see whey Holden doesn’t see it that way too. All he does really in the end is makes mistakes, picks stupid fights, and ruins his good time in life.

You will very easily see this happening throughout the entire book. He fights with his roommate that wasn’t truly dong anything wrong. Holden just had to have him mind set on that everything in the world had no good true reason. Later when he runs off he gets a whore. Big mistake right away, because all that happened is that he felt crumby, didn’t do anything, paid her and she left.

Throughout the entire book he feels alone. He keeps thinking about one of his old friends that he was in my opinion was truly in love with. He just keeps trying to find distractions that will help him through the pain. He constantly keeps going out places and buys food and drinks. He sometimes/commonly is able to get served alcohol even though he is still a teen.

He thinks about his little sister a lot also. That makes me happy because I am an older brother also. If I am gone for a week from my house I will wonder what they are up to and hope that they are having a good time.

After more wondering around town he goes home. This is where I really get happy and sad. He finds his sister at their place. She is overjoyed to see him. He explains to her why he fails school. After being able to be with her for a while he tells her that he is leaving again. She demands to go with but her is able to make her stay. He sleeps like a homeless man for a night. He breaks down somewhere along the way. He goes home again then. At the end he just says that he is getting psychiatric help and that he will be going back to school in the fall.