Discuss the way the author built suspense in the book.  Was it effective?

I am reading The Eye Of The Minds, and it has a lot of suspense. There is a lot of action scenes and you are always wondering what is going to happen next. There are random people and situations that pop out in the story. This makes it interesting and unpredictable in such a strange environment. There are a few specific scenes that really showed suspense such as the scene where Michael and his friends are continuing their mission through The Path. A strange man appears. As soon as the man is mentioned, there is suspense because you don't know who this man is. The quote that introduces this man is, "And standing next to the beginning of the trail, under the boughs of a huge oak, was a pale man dressed in a red cloak, the hood pulled over his head." The description of the man is creepy and suspicious so the reader is left wondering why this creepy man is suddenly in the scene.

I think suspenseful stories are my favorite because they persuade me to keep reading. I get hooked and want to find out what is going to happen, so I keep reading. I personally feel that books without suspense are not as fun to read because you are not reading to discover what you have been wanting to know. You are reading a story event after event, but you might be able to predict what is going to happen. Suspenseful books can be unpredictable and I think they can even make you shocked when something happens. I think it is more interesting and entertaining to read a book that is unpredictable because the story could go anywhere. In The Eye Of The Minds, I think the suspense is very effective because I like reading suspenseful books. The suspense sucks you in to read more. A book full of suspense is a book that is hard to put down.

I like to relate it to math. If you have easy math problems, it gets boring to do them. If you have hard math problems, they are hard to figure out and you have to work harder. You are learning with the hard problems and it feels good to gain knowledge. It is just like books with and without suspense. A book without suspense is easy to predict. A book with suspense is unpredictable and sometimes hard to figure out what is going to happen next. It is fun to read a book where you don't know what is happening. Books are boring if you already know what is going to happen.