The Capture

After concluding that Fahrenheit 451 was a horrible and boring book, with an extremely confusing story line (with the soap opera wall and etc.). I decided to read a new book called The Capture by Kathryn Lasky. This book is the first one in a long series. The story revolves around a fantasy world of owls. But these are extremely sophisticated and intelligent. At a young age these owls go into different "careers" such as search and rescue (to recover owls lost in battles). The story starts out as Sorren is in his tree with his family waiting the arrival of his new baby sister. When she does hatch out of the egg Soren is obsessed with her (Egaltine) and cannot bear his excitement. That night Sorren falls out of his tree (which is found out to be his evil brother Kludd).One fledgling, named Soren is kidnapped by a different "evil" group of owls and starts being brain washed, along with hundreds of other young owls. Sorren befriends one of the owls who is resisting the mind-wipe, named Gyflie (along with himself). And the two of them explore the canyon they are in (the canyon prevents the owls from flying out because they (aren't strong enough yet). Gylfie and Soren are both assigned duties in the pelletorium, (they dissect pellets to find pieces of metal to make metal talons to battle with) where they learn that that at every new moon that bats suck the blood from the breasts of the owls so their bones become brittle and they can't fly (the moon-blinked (mind-wiped) owls think this is wonderful). And that was were I left off, I think I'm gonna have nightmares tonight because this is a really creepy book.