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Summary: Very Cool Book!
Review: I too finished this book the same day I started it. It was so brilliant I couldn't put it down for a second. It showed me that God can take something seeming very bad and bring people to Him through it. The character Liz really touched me. She was so full of hope and was really into sharing her faith. People really noticed something about her was different. I admire this character the most. I reccomend this book for anyone wanting to read a good book.

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Summary: Student Reader
Review: This book is an EXCELLENT book for STUDENTS not for REVIEWERS who think they know what students want to READ. It is filled with gritty characters, a plot that is a thrill ride and a message that goes farther than most teen fiction books I'
ve ever read. It's the kind of reading that I, as a student, LIKE to read. It reminded be about my school, the world I live in and the life I want to live. All that...from this book.

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Summary: Great new fiction
Review: This book is awesome! I got it and read it all the first day. I went straight out to get the next book, Breakout, that same day. This book really helped encourage me in my faith, and it was just a great story to read. I really enjoyed how the plot jumped around a lot from future to past, that kind of stuff. I look forward to reading the next ones...

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Summary: Abolutely atrocious...Transit books should be ashamed.
Review: This is without a doubt the worst book I've ever read. It is inexcusably bad. Without even commenting on the ridiculosly simplistic theology, it is simply the most poorly-written book I have ever encountered. I'm a PhD student studying literature for adolescents (particularly evangelical writing), and so I've read any number of bad books. This one, though, takes the cake.

It is absolutely horrifying that this book made it to the presses. I have no doubt that the author simply ran his first draft through the spell-check and handed it in, and then Transit published it. It's really that bad. It is riddled with errors in grammar and punctuation (including using "her" instead of "she" as the subject of a sentence in a compound, which is a middle-school level error). The book contradicts itself at any number of points, and many times things whole sentences are basically repeated two or three times within the same paragraph. And, none of the conversations resemble reality in any way.

I cannot believe that an author who obviously has so little regard for his audience was allowed to write more books for this company, and I can't believe the publishing house would allow such a mess of a book onto the presses. (And, again, this is just based on style, not even on "substance," which is another place where the novel is a mess.) There are plenty of Christian novels that don't sacrifice decent characterization, some degree of complexity, and a basic grasp of English grammar and mechanics in order to make their point. This novel, however, isn't one of them. I gave it one star because there isn't a "0 star" option.