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Summary: THE FIRE
Review: I was not too happy with this book. It was not as good as FLIGHT 116 IS DOWN. I look for suspence and thrillers. I could not get in to this book. I have not read the other two books in the trilogy. I don't have anything else to say except I didn't really like this book.
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Summary: THE FIRE
Review: Losing Christina: The Fire is the reissue of Caroline B. Cooney's original book The Fire. Why they decided to retitle the three books I have no idea, but the pages are set up just like they were in the original versions, so really the covers just look a little more slick. The Losing Christina trilogy details a year in the life of thirteen-year-old Christina Romney from Burning Fog Isle, who moves onto the mainland of a small town in Maine so that she can continue secondary school. She and three other students board with the Shevvingtons, the school principal and his wife, who delight in destroying the souls of young women. Christina has no choice but to fight the Shevvingtons, which isn't easy when she has no friends and her parents believe the Shevvingtons, not her.The Fire, as well as its counterparts Fog and Snow, is a chilling story because it presents a child's worst nightmare: for adults to ignore you when you're telling the truth. The Shevvingtons' evil power lies in the fact that they are the adults in charge whom everyone believes, rather than Christina. Their actions will make your blood boil because it is so easy to see how wrong, and how sick, they are, but it is also easy to understand how the townspeople would believe the polished faces they present. Caroline B. Cooney's gothic horror trilogy is not just about evil, though. Christina experiences all kinds of emotions that most people can relate to: the fear when she has to move away from her family and friends, being nervous about making friends, wanting a boyfriend, facing unfair teachers and assignments. She is a normal, well-drawn thirteen-year-old who unfortunately has to face something that most thirteen-year-olds do not. As the last book in the trilogy, The Fire ends more hopefully than the first two because the Shevvingtons perish in the fire that they claimed Christina set. It's probably my favorite book of the three because it does end somewhat happily. Christina has learned much about evil in her year at school. She says that it is no good to shield children from evil, that "in another town another thirteen-year-old girl might come face to face with evil for the first time. She should know what to do." It is probably one of the most beautiful lines in the book, and the most truthful.
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Summary: The story of modern triumph over evil
Review: Losing Christina: The Fire is the reissue of Caroline B. Cooney's original book The Fire. Why they decided to retitle the three books I have no idea, but the pages are set up just like they were in the original versions, so really the covers just look a little more slick. The Losing Christina trilogy details a year in the life of thirteen-year-old Christina Romney from Burning Fog Isle, who moves onto the mainland of a small town in Maine so that she can continue secondary school. She and three other students board with the Shevvingtons, the school principal and his wife, who delight in destroying the souls of young women. Christina has no choice but to fight the Shevvingtons, which isn't easy when she has no friends and her parents believe the Shevvingtons, not her. The Fire, as well as its counterparts Fog and Snow, is a chilling story because it presents a child's worst nightmare: for adults to ignore you when you're telling the truth. The Shevvingtons' evil power lies in the fact that they are the adults in charge whom everyone believes, rather than Christina. Their actions will make your blood boil because it is so easy to see how wrong, and how sick, they are, but it is also easy to understand how the townspeople would believe the polished faces they present. Caroline B. Cooney's gothic horror trilogy is not just about evil, though. Christina experiences all kinds of emotions that most people can relate to: the fear when she has to move away from her family and friends, being nervous about making friends, wanting a boyfriend, facing unfair teachers and assignments. She is a normal, well-drawn thirteen-year-old who unfortunately has to face something that most thirteen-year-olds do not. As the last book in the trilogy, The Fire ends more hopefully than the first two because the Shevvingtons perish in the fire that they claimed Christina set. It's probably my favorite book of the three because it does end somewhat happily. Christina has learned much about evil in her year at school. She says that it is no good to shield children from evil, that "in another town another thirteen-year-old girl might come face to face with evil for the first time. She should know what to do." It is probably one of the most beautiful lines in the book, and the most truthful.
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Summary: Well...............
Review: Out of all the books in "The Losing Christina" series, this book was the most disappionting. Lose strings arent tied until the last 2 chapters of the book. After reading the first to books, I expected more from this one.
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Summary: Final Book in Trilogy
Review: Thirteen-year-old Christina Romney has just 18 days until she's free of the Shevvingtons and Schooner Inne. By then it'll be summer and school will be out--and the principal and his wife will leave Maine for good to pursue another school--and other victims. However, for the couple, 18 days is just enough time for them to drive Christina crazy by strategically placing lighted candles in the house and matchboxes in her belongings. Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington hope by doing this Christina will be provoked enough to become an arsonist and have a nervous breakdown so they can finally prove she's a danger to herself and others. In the meantime, Christina befriends Val Armstrong, the older sister of one of her classmates (Robbie). Val was one of the Shevvingtons previous victims and consequently ended up in a mental institution--until she later escapes and seeks shelter with Christina. However, it's all Christina can do to hide Val and protect herself from the Shevvingtons. In the end will she, too, eventually go crazy like all the others before her? "The Fire" is the third and--mercifully--the final book in this trilogy, preceded by "The Fog" (#1) and "The Snow" (#2). Why this storyline was stretched into three books instead of just one is beyond me. In my opinion, these books are totally absurd and unconvincing, particularly how the Shevvingtons are supposed to have all this evil power over the students and adults. I still didn't understand entirely why the Shevvingtons chose young women as victims or what their purpose was besides just being "evil", but I don't intend on re-reading this trilogy to find out either. I'm content with being confused. The ending was one of few highlights to this trilogy, though; that's mainly why I gave "The Fire" three stars instead of a two. Still, I'd only recommend this series to avid Caroline B. Cooney fans. I doubt others will be as interested.
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Summary: The Fire
Review: This book was an extermly good book. I enjoyed reading about Christina and her life on the iland. This is a never pu tdown book. I read it in 2 hours.
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Summary: this book was great!!!
Review: This book was the last in a series of 3 books: "The Fog" "The Snow" then this one. This book is one of Caroline's best! unlike "The Face On the Milk Carton" this one is suspensiveful. It is scary too which I like. Even though I'm not a big fan of most Caroline B Cooney books I loved this one!!!
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Summary: this book was great!!!
Review: This book was the last in a series of 3 books: "The Fog" "The Snow" then this one. This book is one of Caroline's best! unlike "The Face On the Milk Carton" this one is suspensiveful. It is scary too which I like. Even though I'm not a big fan of most Caroline B Cooney books I loved this one!!!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was a great book. I was hooked from the beginning of the first book in the trillogy. I definitely recomend it.
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