Nightmare Academy :

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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts as you embark through a journey of twists and turns, of suspense, and of captivating details. Nightmare Academy is a fascinating story of the Springfield family, Nate the dad, Sarah the mom, and Elijah and Elisha who are sixteen-year-old twins. This family appears ordinary, but actually works undercover for the President, discovering the truth when it seems lost.
Two teenage boys ran away and one is later found, but his mind seems to be erased. He answers all questions by saying, "I don't know." That is, until his parents come. He seems to remember more, and when asked where he was at, he shudders and says, "Nightmare Academy."
The Springfield's are called upon and they start by posing as individual runaways while they look for clues. Then a bright, cheerful lady approaches Elijah and Elisha and offers to take them to a youth shelter. There, she shows them a brochure about a "camp" named the "Knight-More Academy". The next day Elijah and Elisha are missing, and they end up at the camp where nothing is right, nothing is wrong, and the only thing that controls is whoever has the most power.
I enjoyed reading this action-packed, page turning, and overall excellent book. I not only enjoyed the words and plot, but I also enjoyed the message it left in my heart after the last page had been turned and the last words read. The idea is this "Take away Truth, and a tyrant will rule...and where else can Truth, Real Truth, come from, than from God". This book was well written and thought provoking. I hope you enjoy it as well!

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Summary: Truly Magnificent
Review: Nightmare Academy is an awesome book about the forces of good and evil,right and wrong,justice and injustice. If you like mystery, action and suspense this is the book for you. This is a great tale for the real world.

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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: Nightmare Academy was an overall awesome, thriller fiction book. I'd have to say the book was one of the most suspenseful books I've read. After the first few chapters, which start out slow compared to the rest of the book, I couldn't put it down. Nightmare Academy is about a family, the Springfields, who are put on a case to find out how a boy's memory was almost completely wiped out. The Springfield's twins, Elijah and Elisha, act like homeless kids and are taken in by a mysterious woman. They are asked to stay the night at her hotel, but when they wake up, they are in a completely different place where rules don't exist and all communication to the outside world is gone. Their parents have to find them before they are killed or turn out like the boy who almost lost his memory. I won't give away any more of the book, but I would recommend it to anyone.
I would suggest that the reader reads the first book in the series, Hangman's Curse, before they read Nightmare Academy so that you can get to know the characters and also read another good book. Frank Peretti, the author, does an amazing job at building mystery and suspense. He also described the characters so well that I felt like I really knew them by the end of the book. Additionally, the tension and excitement by the end of the book makes you feel like you have to keep on reading until the end.
In conclusion, Nightmare Academy is a very good book, except for the slow beginning, that I would recommend to any fiction lover. The plot is excellent and the characters have interesting personalities that anyone could enjoy.

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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: Nightmare Academy was an overall awesome, thriller fiction book. I'd have to say the book was one of the most suspenseful books I've read. After the first few chapters, which start out slow compared to the rest of the book, I couldn't put it down. Nightmare Academy is about a family, the Springfields, who are put on a case to find out how a boy's memory was almost completely wiped out. The Springfield's twins, Elijah and Elisha, act like homeless kids and are taken in by a mysterious woman. They are asked to stay the night at her hotel, but when they wake up, they are in a completely different place where rules don't exist and all communication to the outside world is gone. Their parents have to find them before they are killed or turn out like the boy who almost lost his memory. I won't give away any more of the book, but I would recommend it to anyone.
I would suggest that the reader reads the first book in the series, Hangman's Curse, before they read Nightmare Academy so that you can get to know the characters and also read another good book. Frank Peretti, the author, does an amazing job at building mystery and suspense. He also described the characters so well that I felt like I really knew them by the end of the book. Additionally, the tension and excitement by the end of the book makes you feel like you have to keep on reading until the end.
In conclusion, Nightmare Academy is a very good book, except for the slow beginning, that I would recommend to any fiction lover. The plot is excellent and the characters have interesting personalities that anyone could enjoy.

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Summary: Mix Sleator, Dixon, and L'Engle. Bake 10 minutes at 250.
Review: The characters and tone of this story were strongly reminiscent of those from three other authors: William Sleator, Madeline L'Engle, and Franklin W. Dixon.
First, Sleator's "House of Stairs" explored a very similar concept (though without the religious element), and in general did it with better writing.
Second, the atmosphere was in many ways similar to that in L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time".
Which brings us to Dixon, of "Hardy Boys" fame. Elijah and Elisha are essentially a Christian, 21st-century version of Frank and Joe Hardy. They are smart (Elijah has actually memorized trig tables); they're courageous, often to the point of recklessnes; they are skilled at self-defense techniques; they know how to use gadgets and equipment (for Frank and Joe it was motorcyles and ham radios; for the Springfield twins it's computers and cell phones); they communicate with each other by secret family code. Definitely a Hardy Boys type feel to much of the story.
The reason my title says "Bake 10 minutes at 250" is that I believe the overall concoction is under-cooked -- not as solid and finished as it needs to be in order to be considered a really good story. I agree with a previous reviewer who says the story is heavy-handed; does the whole family have to have Biblical first names? (And by the way, I assume the girl's name is pronounced "E-LEE-sha", since it would be pretty odd to pronounce it like the Old Testament male prophet's name). And the introduction of the number 666 at the end was over the top. As the other reviewer noted, if you're going to get across a Christian message in a kid's adventure story, you need to use some subtlety -- as C. S. Lewis did. Peretti is just too obvious.
One more thing: There is a definite ideological bias in the public schools today. The education industry is actively inculcating in our kids such things as radical environmentalism, multiculturalism, and moral relativism. I'm vigilant about that ideology and make sure my two kids understand the threat of political correctness. But I think it's going a bit far to suggest that there might be a secret government project to abduct, brainwash, and perhaps even murder kids as part of an overt goal of eradicating religion and morality from the United States. I think Peretti could make his points with a little less conspiratorial (if not hysterical) approach.

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Summary: Nightmare Academy: an exceptional book
Review: This book is amazing. Frank Peretti gives the reader a view into a world without truth, morals, or any idea of right and wrong. It shows us how important God and Truth are to our society. Without them we couldn't know anything. Plus it's a captivating book and very well written. A must read for just about everyone.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is even better than the first! I couldn't put it down. I read it for three days straight! (But I'm slow). Twists, turns, suprises, suspense, good stuff.

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Summary: So Cool!
Review: This book was awesome. A great read for teens, and probably even adults. It kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire book, I didn't want to put it down. A great book to read, you won't regret reading it. And through the adventures the Veritas Project has, they never waver in their faith with Jesus Christ. It was just such an awesome and powerful book! I would definitely recommend it to everyone!!

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Summary: An Awsome Book!
Review: This book was awsome! It was captivating and inspiring. It made you think. You got scared at some parts and other parts were ok. The auther kept the characters alive and strong and made them easy to like and not to like for the bad guys. Great story and ending. Over all this book is great!!! Read it. Great christain book for everyone.

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Summary: Great book for all to read.
Review: This is a great book to read. Something you wouldn't be worried your kids got ahold of.