Example #1: “Last year, I met a serious accident that badly affected my performance in office. I suffered both physically and mentally. Now recovered, I am trying to fight tooth and nail for the promotion I failed to achieve last time.” As you read this mystery, you will encounter more than 1,300 words commonly found on the SAT, each one highlighted in boldface. The best part is, you'll remember the words better because you've learned each one in context, or in relation to the other words around it. And one thing the SAT will always test is your ability to comprehend what you read, and your knowledge of words in context. Did you ever imagine you could study for the SAT by reading a mystery novel? If that sounds like a better way to go, look inside.

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The phrase “tooth and nail” is said to have originated from Sir Thomas More’s In A Dialogue of Comfort and Tribulation, published in 1535, where it is stated as; “They would fayne kepe them as long as euer they mighte, euen with tooth and nayle.” Tooth and Nail features "infected", not "zombies", and the virus is a genetically altered mutation of the rabies virus. So not exactly zombies, but similar, though it reads like a true zombie book. Gut-wrenching. Lots of military action, lingo, names, ranks, acronyms etc. I couldn't really follow who was who, but you get there. Really good, really scary and horrible. Lots of shooting and stabbing and dying. Always with the dying. But there is humor and there are good people doing their job even when it seems like they are the only ones doing it.Example #4: “The government is fighting tooth and nail to eradicate corruption, terrorism and other social issues from the country.” After learning their captain's true identity, Luster was extremely inspired. He had given up on his goal not long after the clash with the stone hive started, but now, it did not seem as impossible anymore. It's also pretty light on the whole anatomy of a virus scenario - this is something that has resulted to me skimming in other novels of the same genre (I read these books for a guilty pleasure, not to increase my knowledge of virology!). I think this book is PERFECT for that. Wow, this book will be such a challenge for my students to read. I'm very excited to use it with them. From a teacher perspective 5 stars. This book is awesome.

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I guess what I'm, trying to say is: Tooth and Nail reads like a first try at an apocalyptic novel, complete with numerous issues, and it seems DiLouie then went away and re-wrote the book in a superior fashion, coming up with The Infection in the process. The most prominent support of this is how one dimensional most of the characters in Tooth and Nail are. Reading this at times felt like watching Battle: Los Angeles. Dispensable and interchangeable grunts battling a superior foe in an attempt to complete their mission and save the human race. I failed to care about any character in that movie (when I could tell them apart), and I had much the same trouble here for everyone other than Bowman, Mooney and McLeod, until very late in the novel. As such, I was never as fully engaged nor entertained by what was taking place. I must vanquish these abominable bugs! If I kill enough... I might get a hug from Master Winter! Oh, I can't wait!' Hace una semana que lo acabé y ya no recuerdo nada. Intrascendente pero se lee. No estorba. Historia de unos militares en NY cuando se expande un virus que convierte a las persona en zombies. No hay mucho que decir, es una novela de zombies pero un poco diferente.

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Tooth and Nail is one of the most immersive experiences you can find as a fan of apocalyptic fiction. As a former military officer, I can attest to complexity and uncertainty of the difficult decisions faced by second lieutenant Todd Bowman and his men, as they faced an increasingly deadly and nebulous viral threat on the streets of Manhattan. The buildup of tension, confusion and violence was expertly drawn from start to finish. Each soldier's role in the story is examined and expanded through gritty action, well constructed conversation and personal narrative introspection. With nothing better to do, he grabbed a severed chitin blade of one of the abominations and used it as a makeshift sword. Tooth & Nail shows us a very human side to the military during a situation in which NOBODY can really train. They have self doubt. The make good/bad decisions and all along the way their characters develop to where the reader feels a certain kinship to what they are going through. For a zombie-type book, it had enough of a different bent that it wasn't like just reading another self-published fanboy/fanfic piece focused on guns, gore, guts and rape scenes. Surrounded by a swarm of Nightmare Creatures, Sunny fought while feeling extremely aggrieved. Things were not going great for him... he was extremely tired, bruised and battered, and worst of all, his essence was running dry.

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From a reader perspective....yeah. A bit less. Other reviewers have said that some of the writing is very awkward and weird, and it is. And I don't mean the "SAT word" sentences. Like, it's going to be hard to use academic vocabulary this much, you know? I expected some weirdness. But some of these sentences were just like, WEIRD. No one would talk like this, ever. Again--this isn't about using the big words. It's just.......wow these characters are unbelievable. The whole situation is pretty unbelieveable.Sunny killed a few more enemies, barely avoided a stream of acid that one of the monstrous insects spat, and retaliated by neatly severing its body in half. Both a thrilling mystery and a test-prep masterclass, Tooth and Nail is an entertaining, genius way to conquer the vocabulary section of SATs and ACTs.

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Tooth and Nail is a 1992 crime novel by Ian Rankin, originally entitled Wolfman. It is the third of the Inspector Rebus novels.

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But it is not enough to stay alive. A man must also have something for which he wants to live as well." However, I'm really not a fan of the writing style in this novel. This is written in the third-person present tense, which made if feel like I was reading a film manuscript (if that makes sense). Another issue that I had is that the story didn't have a discernable plot until about 3/4 of the way through it. The Irregulars knew that the moments when hope finally shined from the distance were often the most dangerous, so they did not allow themselves to relax and fought with fierce determination. When Rebus is offered a psychological profile of the Wolfman by an attractive woman, it seems too good an opportunity to miss. [ citation needed] Connections to other Rankin books [ edit ] Un hecho muy interesante es que el autor baso el libro en el punto de vista del ejercito americano y no en la visión de los civiles (que suele ser el cliché de todos los libros de este género)