Book Review: Gregor and the Code of Claw

Title: Gregor and the Code of Claw
Author: Suzanne Collins
Pages: 412
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Genre: fiction
Rating: 9/10

                                 THE PROPHECY OF TIME

THE WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED,

YOUR ALLY BEEN ENSNARED.

IT IS NOW OR IT IS NEVER

BREAK THE CODE OR DIE FOREVER

TIME IS RUNNING OUT

RUNNING OUT

RUNNING OUT.

TO THE WARRIOR GIVE MY BLADE.

BY HIS HAND YOUR FATE IS MADE.

BUT DO NOT FORGET THE KING

OR THE CLICKING, CLICKING, CLICKING.

WHILE A RAT’S TONGUE MAY BE FLICKING,

WITH ITS FEET IT DOES THE TRICKING.

FOR THE PAW AND NOT THE JAW

MAKES THE CODE OF CLAW.

TIME IS STANDING STILL

STANDING STILL

STANDING STILL.

SINCE THE PRINCESS IS THE KEY

TO UNLOCK THE TREACHERY,

SHE CANNOT AVOID THE MATCHING

OR THE SCRATCHING, SCRATCHING, SCRATCHING.

WHEN A SECRET PLOT IS HATCHING,

IN THE NAMING IS THE CATCHING.

WHAT SHE SAW, IT IS THE FLAW

OF THE CODE OF CLAW.

TIME IS TURNING BACK

TURNING BACK

TURNING BACK

WHEN THE MONSTER’S BLOOD IS SPILLED,

WHEN THE WARRIOR HAS BEEN KILLED,

YOU MUST NOT IGNORE THE RAPPING,

OR THE TAPPING, TAPPING, TAPPING.

IF THE GNAWERS FIND YOU NAPPING,

YOU WILL ROT WHILE THEY ARE MAPPING

OUT THE LAW OF THOSE WHO GNAW

IN THE CODE OF CLAW.

That is The Prophecy of Time. It is the last prophecy that will end either the life of the rats, or the humans. The setting is under ground, in the city of Regalia. There humans live with bats. The people have purple eyes, and pale skin. But when Gregor first falls in the underground, (the entrance is in the laundry room of the apartment he lives in) Gregor leads a mission to go and find his dad, who he thinks fell into the underland. But for some strange reason, Gregor is a warrior in the prophecies of Regalia. He must train, fight, and argue against his enemies and so called friends.

But now after going to the underland to go see his mom, he and Luxa, the future queen of Regalia, must find out why the nibblers/mice are in trouble. Luxa had given the mice her crown. If they were in trouble they would send it back. And they do.

As they (Gregor and Luxa) take a second trip though, Howard, their friend, Hazard, Luxa’s little cousin, Boots, Gregor’s little sister, and Nike and Thalia, the bats, come too. And soon they are on their way. On their journey they meet up with Ripred. As they finish the journey out of the treacherous tunnel, the group tells Gregor to go back and get Sandwich, the great future teller’s sword. Otherwise, Gregor wouldn’t be of any use to his friends.

Now it is the time of war and the warrior in the Prophecy of Time comes in. Gregor must get the sword and kill the Bane in the battle between humans and rats. The prophecy says he will die killing it, but Gregor still has the choice of whether he wants to do this or not. In the prophecy it says that they need to crack the Code of Claw. What is this Code? Will they succeed? Will Gregor fight the Bane, or will he go home with this on his conscience? Join Gregor, Ares, Luxa, Aurora, and of course little Boots on an adventure that might end the species of either the rats or the humans.

My favorite character in this book is Luxa. Luxa is the future queen of Regalia. She is a daring girl. Her bat’s name is Aurora. When Luxa was little, they had bonded. Bonding is when you pledge yourself to save the human or bat you are bonded to as if you were saving your own life.

The reason that I like the Gregor the Over Lander series, is because just like The Hunger Games, and Catching Fire, this series is interesting in a way that it is more dangerous, scary (a little), and very engaging. It appears that Suzanne Collins wrote this book with just more enthusiasm. This book isn’t as full of questions as The Hunger Games. It is more straight forward, so you can probably guess what is going to happen. Some parts are just too hard to believe. But all in all, I enjoyed the Gregor the Overlander series better than a lot of series I have read, but that isn’t a surprise to me, since Suzanne Collins is one of the best authors of books I’ve read.

And if I had to chose between Suzanne Collin’s writing and J.K. Rowling’s writing, (author of the Harry Potter series), I would pick Suzanne Collin’s writing, because J.K. Rowling’s writing isn’t as captivating. Harry Potter is interesting, but it says that he is the only person in the whole world that has survived a killing curse, and then it goes on about how Harry Potter escapes from the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, and how he trains in the magical school, Hogwarts. Now that is interesting, but not as interesting as Suzanne Collin’s writing.

But when Suzanne Collins writes, she writes so that it can hook anyone’s attention. Now I’m not saying that J.K. Rowling doesn’t do that. She does, but after I read it, parts of it just don’t jump and grab my attention. I could read Suzanne Collin’s books over and over again, and not get bored.