The Prisoner (The Blair Witch Files, Case File 6)

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Summary: The Prisoner
Review: Eliza Baynes is acused of a crime she didn't commit. She tries to confide in people what really happened, but everyone she tells she finds dead later. Is it the Blair Witch, Elly Kedward? Eliza is sure of it.

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Summary: A thrilling new book from the Blair Witch Files series.
Review: Eliza Baynes was devastated when her widowed father remarried. Gloria, his new wife, hates Eliza - and she hates Gloria. Worst of all is Eliza's hateful new stepbrother, Raymond, who terrifies her with stories about the Blair Witch, a local legend. Eliza feels desperate urges that tell her to get revenge - and her attempt at a spell leads to tragedy. Shipped of to boarding school, Eliza tries to confide the truth - that she was under the curse of the Blair Witch - but everyone she tries to get close to dies a horrible death. After she graduates, she takes a job as a live-in nanny to a twelve-year-old boy. When his older brother dies, Eliza is convicted of murder and sent off to spend the rest of her life in prison - eighteen years old, and fated to live what remains of her life behind bars. For Eliza knows that sooner or later, the Blair Witch will decide to kill her, too. Eliza contacts Cade Merrill, who tries to unravel the mystery before it's too late. This was one of my favorite books from the Blair Witch Files series. The writing quality was higher than in previous books, and the story was suspenseful.

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Summary: Interesting concept shattered by a lack of explanation...
Review: The Prisoner is only the second Blair Witch Files novel I'd ventured in and I must say that is fails to make me eager to read another. When I read The Witch's Daughter I was really impressed and I was very eager to read another entry in the series, but upon finishing The Prisoner I just kinda felt...empty? I don't know which word describes my post-Prisoner mood, but I just felt like I wanted more to the story. I mean it has an interesting premise of a girl, Eliza Baynes, who was convicted of a crime she didn't commit, Murder, and is desperately seeking Cade's help. Cade gets involved, reads her diary and a bunch of weird events happen which seem a little more than coincidental. But like other reviewers I wanted to know more about the Blair Witch and Eliza Baynes, some of the explanations seem a little too easy to come by, and some of the dialogue the characters used was simply laughable and seemed like something from a poorly written Teenage Soap Opera. But on a better note I will say that there were some elements of the story that were just flat out eerie, I mean the way the author describes them and the mental image that gets associated with those words is just plain eerie.

As a whole I would say that The Prisoner was mildly entertaining, there were a lot of elements that I wanted to be deeper explored and I wanted thought out explanations, not just sloppy one or two sentences to explain a few chapters worth of going-ons. The Prisoner left me wanting to desire fulfillment, it didn't leave things unexplained involving Eliza Baynes, it's just that every explanation was just so blunt and fast that it left something to be desired. I can only recommend The Prisoner if you are a true Blair Witch fan, as most non-Blair Witch fans would probably be lost and would laugh at the bland pre-adolescent dialogue. Simply put, The Prisoner only slightly provided a sense of satisfaction upon completion and I can only recommend that fans of the Blair Witch Project check into it. I hope my review will help you in your decision on The Prisoner, whether you pass or buy, thanks for reading.

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Summary: Great book, can't wait to read the rest...
Review: This book was a very good read, in fact it only took me a day to read it.(even though it was a short book)The story is about a young girl who is convicted of murder for a crime she claims she did not commite, that in fact it was the blair witch....and anyone who she tells her story to dies...so she asks Cade Merrill for help and he ends up reading her diary (which you will be reading in the book). While the story is really good...it was also depressing caues it turnes out sad. And of course sincs it is of the Blair Witch you still dont fine any truth about anything, you just read the story. I cant wait to ready the other 7 books in The blair witch Files. You can go to the website if you want to now more about the books, there are even clues to each of the books you can read, like the e-mails of the people who wrote to Cade Merrill and other interesting stuff. ...

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Summary: Another great book in the Blair Witch Files Series...
Review: When Cade Merrill is contacted by a girl convicted of murder, he is determined to uncover the truth about her crimes. At sixteen Eliza Baynes tried to take her revenge on the stepbrother she hated, but her attempts at a spell ended with the death of her father. Sent to boarding school, Eliza is haunted by her past and the fact that everyone she talks to about what happened dies in mysterious circumstances.

Finally convinced she has escaped from the witch's evil, Eliza returns to Burkittsville, where it is soon apparent that history is repeating itself. Eliza was only eighteen years old when she was given the death penalty for killing her then boyfriend Jake Henderson on the evidence of his younger brother Ryan. Her sentence is later retracted and Eliza is sentenced to life imprisonment, but the memories of what took place remain and she needs Cade's help. Eliza claims that she herself is innocent and that Jake's murder was committed by a person under the control of the Blair Witch. As she warns Cade, everyone who hears her story ends up dead. Will Cade be the next victim of the Blair Witch?

"The Prisoner" is the sixth book in the Blair Witch Casefiles series. It was a fast-paced, entertaining and genuinely scary book, although it did lack the suspense of some of the previous books. I love every book in the series so far and this one did not disappoint. I recommend this to all Blair Witch fans.