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Summary: Frank lives up to his reputation
Review: If you love Christian suspense, or even if you don't, you will after you read this. Twins Elijah and Elisha and their parents make up a highly secret investigative team. The family goes all over the country to find "not only the Facts, but the Truth behind the Facts." In a small Washington town, a highschool's star athletes are coming down with a mysterious illness that leaves them insane. The Springfield family is sent to investigate, finding a mysterious ghost, a second class system, and witchcraft surrounding them. They soon realizes that there is the Baker High that everyone chooses to see, and the second Baker High where people are harrassed, abused, bullied, stolen from, and made fun of every day. What measures will people go to to stop it? Enough to murder? I loved this eerie book! Not one section was boring, I was hooked to every page! The only problem is that I have to wait till the next book comes out...
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Summary: Pretty creepy in the end, but on par with Peretti's standard
Review: If you've ever read Peretti's work(s), then this is only a one-upper on it. The plot is excellent, the cast are great, the theme and message are appropriate, and the dialogue is cool.Picture Peretti's Cooper Kids Adventure Series family (Dad and the kids) with a cool Mom, and you've got the Springfields. The family moves in on the school and blends in, and investigates the mystery. They help out some of the troubled students and teachers at the school along the way. The new characters are awesome. Perhaps a little over-perfect, but one can overlook that. The dialogue is pretty cool, especially when the Springfield kids square off with students and teachers in an Evolution vs. Creation debate, using some pretty witty dialogue Peretti's theme applies to young kids today, as well as paralleling his own childhood experiences. Along the way, he manages to get back at some of his coaches that used to bully him in school...boy, should those guys be sorry! Don't read this book before going to bed...you'll sure be sorry. Otherwise, an awesome new series from Peretti...and he's under contract to do at least three more in the series too!
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Summary: fantasy or truth?
Review: in Hangmans Curse by Frank Peretti though this is a good book it is hard to tell whether this book has any truth in what it is teaching. i believe it is a good book to read but dont take everything you read in here so seriously. It talks about how these kids (Elijiah and Elisha)find their strength in God when really they find their strength in manipulating people. This book was a quick read and i would reccomend this if people want to hear both sides of stories but otherwise if your searching for truth (or veritas as this book calls it) you should look somewhere else.
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Summary: Hangman's Curse
Review: The Hangman's Curse is Frank Peretti's first installment in a new series, The Veritas Project, aimed at young teens. The story unfolds just as if it is a story right out of today's headlines and deals with the issue of bullying on the high school campus. The Springfield family, consisting of twins Elisha and Elijah and their parents, make up the investigation team working on The Veritas Project. The program's mission is to investigate and solve strange mysteries, crimes, and occurrences, seeking not only the facts, but the truth behind the facts. In Hangman's Curse, the Springfield family's assignment is to discover the truth behind the mysterious form of madness that is inflicting Baker High School's athletes. What is causing this madness? Is it tied to the superstition of a curse left by the ghost of a student who has haunted the school since he hanged himself at the school in the 1930's? Who is the ghostly figure with a hawk on his shoulder that is seen by those tormented by the mysterious madness? Is he Abel Frye and is Abel Frye the student who hung himself? What is the meaning of the crude etching of a hangman figure on the lockers of each victim? It seems that it is the bullies that have been targeted and are the ones contracting the mysterious illness. Are they suffering a form of revenge from a group of students that is meeting secretly practicing witchcraft? What is the truth? The answers are uncovered as you follow the Springfield family's quest for the truth behind the mystery. The Hangman's Curse is a fast-paced and riveting page turner. The truth behind the mysterious madness will surprise the reader. Teens as well as adult fans of Peretti will enjoy this book. When finished, the reader will be eagerly awaiting the next installment in this series.
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Summary: A good lesson
Review: The Springfield family (Nate, Sarah, Elijah, and Elisha) is very Christian. They try to help whoever they can. And they work without being too judgmental.
This is a strength because teens like to do the opposite of whatever they are told, especially if being PREACHED to. It becomes a minor weakness, though. The religious aspect is a tiny part of the novel; but when it comes in, a reader will notice that the author and his editors have held back...the novel may be too politically correct.
The novel begins as the Springfields bust a drug ring. Then they are asked to investigate weird incidents at Baker High School. They accept the assignment and begin separating the truth from the legend of Abel Frye (a student who committed suicide in the 1930s and is now helping the weaker students exact revenge on their tormentors).
Children and teens will enjoy this novel because it not too preachy. Parents will appreciate the good message taught by HANGMAN'S CURSE. Other adults will be intrigued as well.
While aimed for the 12+ crowd, okay for 9+.
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Summary: Peretti's Must Read Book
Review: this was a really creepy, suspensful book. An average high school is suffering a mysterious outbreak of.......curses? When several of the school's most popular students end up in the hospital, crazed and muttering "Abel Frye, Abel Frye", the administration begins to wonder: are they on drugs, or being haunted by Abel Frye, the kid who hung himself in the school 60 years ago? Enter the Springfields, a family of undercover detectives with the Veritas project. As the 2 kids, Elisha and Elijah, begin searching, they discover a lot more than they bargained for. Is it a ghost? Or are the students being cursed by an underground witch coven? And what happens when Elisha is targeted? This book is excellent, and really suspensful. If you are looking for a great teen thriller, this is it!
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Summary: Decent.
Review: While this novel was a decent mystery/thriller, Frank Peretti went overboard with the religious preaching (i.e. Elisha "proving" evolution wrong, Elijah getting into arguments about morality relating to the Ten Commandments with an athiest teacher, etc). Enough people here have given summaries of the book, so I won't do so. If you're Christian and are looking for Christian viewpoints towards the occult, etc in a mystery book, this is for you. If you don't really want to be preached at, I wouldn't read it.
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