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Book ReviewsThe Train |
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Book: The Train
Written by: Diane Hoh |
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Bit Unrealistic but Stays on the Tracks of an Enjoyable Read
Rating:
4 / 5
Hannah and her other high school friends are part of the school's field trip to San Francisco travelling by train from Chicago. Kerry who needs to put on makeup every ten minutes and change clothes every hour is enraged when the conductor takes her vastly too large carry on to the baggage car from her whipped boyfriend who was struggling getting it onto the train. When she goes to get it she finds the coffin of a recently deceased class member is also going to San Francisco. Even though she, Hannah and the rest of the gang had treated the kid they had forced the nick name of Frog onto like a social leper and made his life miserable she throws a tantrum about having to share the train with his corpse which much to her disgust gets her nowhere. When the train enters its first tunnel and the Frog's girlfriend is found nearly strangled to death the terror begins for the gang of friends. Hannah seems to be of special interest to the murderer but she won't tell her friends why. It seems that Frog is not happily staying in his coffin and she and her friends are in grave danger.
It was an enjoyable quick read and is ideal to read if you have to kill a few hours somewhere, maybe even at the train station. You do have to overlook that surely after an attempted murder the train would be stopped at the next town and all suspects removed to an interview room with the local police but obviously they have to stay on the train for the story to happen. I've caught the train from Chicago to San Francisco and it doesn't stop for a half a day in Denver either, it stops at places to refuel yes but not a whole morning and there's no way it would delay hundreds of passengers to wait for one teenager to reappear or not. Also why they would expect the corpse of Frog to be in the very same coffin they rescued Hannah from seems to defy logic. If you can overlook these things and accept the work as pure fiction then this is a very enjoyable read.
The Train by Diane Hoh
Rating:
5 / 5
This is a great book but you have to be ready for it. i went into it thinking that it would somr murder mystery (one of my favorite types of books) but i was totally suprised. it is a very scary, sad and emotional book. Hannah, the main character, is a very distressed and scared girl because trains scare her a lot, especially when going across country. But after her and her friend, Kerry, discover the coffin of their formeer peer whom they nicknamed Frog in the baggae car, everyone starts confessing to the horrible things that they did to him. and, it's not who you expect. that's all i'm going to say because i dont want to give away the ending. happy reading!
The only Hoh book I have read. Yet!!!!
Rating:
5 / 5
This is the only Hoh book I have read yet.When hannah goes on a trip with her friends to San Franciso they never expected the horrors that were in store for them.I would recommend this book for someone likes twists.
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