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Summary: Deeply Psychological
Review: Caroline B. Cooney never ceases to pull off writing a great book. The Snow is the second book of The Fog, The Snow, and The Fire trilogy. I think it is the best of the three. It's a really psychological trilogy. It deals with those difficult times when you're telling the truth and no one will listen or believe you. We can all relate. I'm sure our stories are not as life/death as Christina's (the main character). I highly recommend this book if you can relate to not being listened too when you really need to be.
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Summary: Deeply Psychological
Review: Caroline B. Cooney never ceases to pull off writing a great book. The Snow is the second book of The Fog, The Snow, and The Fire trilogy. I think it is the best of the three. It's a really psychological trilogy. It deals with those difficult times when you're telling the truth and no one will listen or believe you. We can all relate. I'm sure our stories are not as life/death as Christina's (the main character). I highly recommend this book if you can relate to not being listened too when you really need to be.
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Summary: Slightly Better Than the First Book
Review: Now that Anya Rothrock has officially gone mad, the Shevvingtons have found a new victim to take her place: Dolly Jaye, Michael and Benjamin's younger sister, and Christina Romney's best friend on Burning Fog Isle. Since one of Dolly's fears is of heights, Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington insist she overcome it by taking skiing lessons. But Christina knows firsthand they don't want to help Dolly. If anything, they want to destroy her mind like they did to Anya in the previous book, The Fog. And it's up to Christina to protect her friend and disrupt the Shevvingtons' plan.My opinion of the first book (The Fog) wasn't so great, and neither is my opinion of this book, but at least in The Snow, Christina discovers the identity of the rubber man on the beach, as well as the secret in the cellar. The girls--especially Christina--are constantly being tortured psychologically and pitted against one another, just like in the first book. There seems to be no hope or any apparent possibility of being saved, which I found way too depressing and irritating. The one good thing I can say about this book is that it's very quick and easy to read. (I finished it in one day.) Cooney's writing is still pretty good, but I can't say that I liked the story at all. So, unless you're already a fan, I'd skip this trilogy: The Fog, The Snow, and The Fire. Caroline B. Cooney can do--and has done--much better than this.
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Summary: Suspenseful and well-written
Review: Snow, the second book in Caroline B. Cooney's Losing Christina trilogy, is just as good as the first, Fog. This time, the Shevvington's target is apparantely Dolly, Christina's best friend from the island who is a year younger than herself. After losing Anya to the Shevvingtons, Christina does all she can to hold on to Dolly. Much to her dismay, very few people believe her evidence about the Shevvingtons. Not her parents, not Dolly's brothers, not Dolly herself. The only ones who believe it are Christina's best friend, Jonah, and a few other of her classmates who have felt the wrath of the Shevvingtons. This is a fantastic sequel, and a high point is the reappearance of Blake, Anya's boyfriend. I would reccomend this book to anyone who has read the first book in the trilogy (a must) and who is looking for a fantastic mystery and all-around good story.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is like the first book, but it takes place in the winter. Dolly, Christinas friend from the island starts school on the mainland. Christina figures that they got Dolly to live w/ them because Anya is already destroyed, and she (Christina) is to strong. The Shevvingtons treat Dolly better than the rest of them. They buy her new clothes, and stuff. But they force her to do things to, like take dancing lessons, and forbid her to do her fav thing, read(kind of weird coming from an English teacher, and a high school principle, huh?). Then Anya seems to be recovering, so Christina wants her to see her old b/f, Blake while they go skiing one weekend. Christina is pushed off the advanced ski cliff, but no one believes her. When the return, Dolly is missing, but the Shevvingtons dont do anything to help. When the police finally do come, they say they will do everything to find her, but Christina knows that the Shevvingtons are hiding her /in/ the house. So Christina goes and looks in the forbidden cellar. Does she ever find Dolly? Read the book to find out.
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