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.

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.

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. ...

I felt that I had to write this review because there wasn't much content to the earlier reviews. For me, a cookbook is valuable insofar as it is practical, usable, clear, and enticing. Bevelyn Blair might very well be able to serve these cakes to me, and they might be delicious, but I'm not sure that this book is going to be useful for me. I should say first that I love baking cakes more than anything, and usually make about two a week. So far my only all-cake cookbook is The Cake Bible, and I've made many of the plain cakes in that book with happy results. I felt that I wanted to get more ideas for new flavors and combinations of cakes, so I decided to try this book. I just received the book in the mail, and these are some things that concern me, that I wish I'd known before I ordered:
--The book is concise almost to the point of being abrupt. Sometimes there are two or three recipes per page. At times it seems that the brevity could be confusing, like when she says "Melt 4 oz white chocolate in 1/2 c boiling water." I know how I would do this (chop the chocolate, put in sturdy bowl, pour hot water over, cover with foil for 5 minutes to let it melt, then whisk to smooth) but I'm not *certain* that this is what she intends, and a less experienced cook might just put the chocolate in a saucepan of boiling water (I'm not sure what that might do, but I think it could be disastrous).
--She often bakes with shortening, margarine, or vegetable oil. I'm used to baking with butter, and whether it's right or wrong, I'm reluctant to try a recipe that uses something else.
--She is sometimes vague about the cake pan, saying "bake in a loaf pan" or "a tube pan" or--worse--"a layer cake pan." While I don't require precise directions in all aspects of cooking, in baking it seems to me pretty essential, and what is the point of having to guess which cake pan would be best?
--Then again, she sometimes specifies strange pan sizes. She often says to use a 10 x 5 inch loaf pan, or a 12 x 9 inch sheet pan. Well, I have a good basic assortment of baking pans. I have a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan, and a 13 x 9 inch sheet pan. Would these work? She doesn't say. Where do you get these special-sized pans? She doesn't say. Again, small though it might seem, this is enough to put me off making a recipe.
--She sometimes uses cake mixes. Enough said.
--Her cakes are huge! I find it funny that although she insists that cakes are great for baking "everyday," most of her recipes are huge. There are only two people in my household and I like a cake that is a reasonable size. She often bakes in a big (13 x 9) sheet pan or in 3 (or even 4) 9-inch round layers. If I were looking to make a nice cake some Tuesday afternoon for no good reason (my definition of an "everday" cake), I'm not going to go in for a 4-layer cake.
--The icing is mandatory! I should say that I'm not crazy about icing. The cake is what I like most, and I love a wonderful pound cake or almond cake for slicing and eating plain with tea. But her cakes are designed around icing, and the names of the cakes often refer to the icing, which can lead to disappointment once you read the recipes. For example, there's a "Chocolate Strawberry Cake," which seems so interesting. I'm imagining strawberries or jam *in* the cake, to give an interesting berry-chocolate flavor. Instead, this is simply a plain chocolate cake with strawberry cream frosting. Probably delicious, but not what I envisioned. Same with the Coconut Cream Cake. No coconut flavor in the cake, just in the frosting.
--There are no pictures. I don't require pictures, but some people might want to know.

Having said all that, there are a *lot* of recipes here, some of which sound very delicious, and if I can find any that actually seem reasonable, I'll probably make some of them. In the meantime, though, I'm going to try Maida Heatter's Cakes, which I've browsed through. It looks wonderful and clear and thorough. You might want to do the same, or at least buy them both to compare.

I will echo the enthusiasm of the other purchasers of this book. Don't be fooled by the small size of the book; it is chock-full of recipes. The price per recipe must be lower than any other cake book I own! In general, the recipes are very well written, all business and no fluff.

My only reservation would be giving this book to the cook without cake experience. I've got 25 years' experience in cake baking, so explicit techniques that are taken for granted here needn't be elucidated. For a beginner, though, the techniques of stirring vs. beating vs. whipping vs. folding, etc., might be unfamiliar. For those cooks, I'd still recommend Marion Cunningham's Fanny Farmer Baking Book.

However, for someone who already knows how to bake cakes, this could be a most valuable reference, possibly the only all-cake book they'd need. It'll also make a fine gift! The beautiful retro-graphic design of the book is an added pleasure.

This cookbook contains a collection of recipes accumulated over 30 years of baking. Mrs. Blair is considered the queen of cakes and once you try these recipes, you'll know why. Each is delicious and unforgettable. Traditional recipes are included as well as some new surprises. One of the very best cookbooks available!

Cade Merrile is a seventeen year old owner of a webpage called blairwithfiles.com. His cousin Heather died in the making of a student documentary on the blair witch. Cade puts a message up on his site asking for information on one of the many cases of the Blair witch. In 1825 there was a mysterious drowning of a young girl. Eileen Treacle was only ten years old when she drowned in 'East Tappy Creek" and several witnesses testified that they saw a 'bony white hand' reach out of the water to pull the girl in. He looks through tons of e-mails until he comes across one written by Cecelia Northrupp, a girl who claims to have seen the ghost of Eileen Treacle. Without hesistating, Cade decides to check her story out and uncovers the story of three more mysterious deaths near the same creek.

The story is told by Cecelia Northrup herself and involves a high school camping trip that takes place 174 years after the strange death of Eileen Treacle. Immediately, (as in most of the other stories) things start to go wrong: some of the kids become sick,the weather is really cold, and ghost of a little girl appears to one of the seventh graders. So she is convinced that something is wrong and the behaviour of one of the teachers and her boyfriend Mark is soon putting everyone's life in danger. What is causing these strange events to occur and how are they linked to the Blair Witch herself? The other books in this series are good but not as messed up as this one. It really can freak you out.

This book was very intense and creepy. I like the way nothing is ever proved in these books and anyone who likes to get a little creeped out now and then should read it. If you aren't into this kind of thing, then you shouldn't read the book.

The 3red installment in Cade Merrill's Blair Witch Files. Suprisingly eerire. A high school girl named Cecilia and her boyfriend Mark,go on a camping trip along with 2 of there friends, two teachers, and 30 something seventh-graders. As time passes Cecilia's boyfriend and her teacher get very mean after falling into a creek. Cecilia begins to worry and afetr a while she finds both teachers gone and Mark acting very irritable. Wanting to get herself and the kids out of the woods she finds the school bus gone. Now Cecilia and her friends find themselfs in a race against time to get out of teh woods alive. Things get more horrifying each day- finds teachers finger nails and other teachers body. No one belives her. Mark finally tells the group the will walk out of the woods. But is he really leading them to civilization or deeper in the woods were an unknow evil lurks. Great ending. WHY ARE THE BLAIR WITCH FILES GETTING HARDER TO FIND. I WILL BE VERY SAD IF THEY GO OUT OF PRINT. Ther are not corny as some people say. Belive me I've read 4 books in this series and they were all grat. I suggest reading this trilling series- that I hope won't stop for a long time!

When Cade Merrill, seventeen year old owner of the website, theblairwitchfiles.com comes across a newspaper article dating from 1825 about the mysterious drowning of a young girl, he decides to investigate. Eileen Treacle was only ten years old when she drowned in 'East Tappy Creek" and several witnesses testified that they saw a 'bony white hand' reach out of the water to pull the girl in.

When Cade posts a message on his website asking for information on the legend, he doesn't expect success. After wading through dozens of replies, he comes across an e-mail from Cecelia Northrupp, a girl who claims to have seen the ghost of Eileen Treacle. Without hesistation, Cade decides to check her story out and uncovers the story of three more mysterious deaths near the same creek.

The story is narrated by Cecelia Northrup herself and involves a high school camping trip that takes place 174 years after the strange death of Eileen Treacle. Immediately, things start to go wrong: the weather is freezing, some of the kids become ill, and ghost of a little girl appears to one of the seventh graders. Cecelia is convinced that something is wrong and the behaviour of one of the teachers and her boyfriend Mark is soon putting everyone's life in danger. But what is causing these strange events to occur and how are they linked to the creek itself?

This book was fast-paced, entertaining and fairly creepy. I think it was less 'psychological' than the previous book in this series, "The Dark Room", but equally enjoyable. I have to say I like the way that nothing is ever proved in these books and that the reader is left to make up their own mind about the unexplained events that take place. Overall, five stars and I recommend it to any teen who likes horror stories.

This is a good childrens book on teaching kids how to behave. Children do not know how to behave properly. But when you tell them through books, and use characters like Rainbow Fish, then it is easier for them to understand. It is a great book for kidst o read to understand how to expect peoples differences. Everyone is different in their own ways, it is just harder for some people to realize it. Everyone has their own special qualities, people just need to learn that we are all different.

I like this book because things like this hapen in everyday life. Rainbow Fish is a good example of how people follow others, and do not think for themselves. When one other the other fish is not excepted becasue he is a little different, Rainbow Fish doesn't know how to react. But, he learns to stand up for himself and learns how to treat others. I think everyone should learn to try to except everyone. We are all same, yet we are all different.

Rainbow Fish to the Rescue, Marcus Pfister's second addition to Rainbow Fish, is a short and sweet story about Rainbow Fish, and his now sparkling scaled friends feel they're too good for fish without sparkling scales.
In the last story Rainbow Fish felt he was too good for the fish without the shiny scales. He showed them off to the point where the other fish ignored him and thought he was snooty. He gets advice and decided to share his scales with the other fish. In this 2nd addition the schools of fish with the shiny scales are playing and a small yellow fish asks to play. Since his scales are dull, they say no. All of the sudden a shark comes looking for food and the small yellow fish is out in the open all alone. Rainbow Fish knows what he must do!
It's a good lesson for younger children to learn from. About sharing, accepting, and so on. I would definitely recommend it to parents looking for good children stories.

This is a great book no teaching children how to except others. When all the fish with a sparklie fins are playing a game. They do not let a little fish without a sparklie fin play. Rainbow Fis wants to invite him to play yet doesn't know what his friends will think of him. He is afraid to stand up to his knew friends. Instead of standing up for what he believes. He follows his friends and does whatever they do. Later on in this book Rainbow Fish saves the day.

My favorite character is Rainbow Fish. He realizes how the little fish feels, yet in the end he learns how to make the little fish happy. This is a great book on teaching kids to except everyone. Everyone is different in their own ways. WE just have to learn to except that we are all not the same. I liek this book, it is one of my favorite childrens books. These books have great characters, and can relate to life very well.

I am a big G Godwin fan, but a little disappointed with this outing. I just never connected with the characters, never got drawn in by the plot. Maybe I'm prejudiced because I'm a southerner and prefer her southern stories. I'll pass on this one.

"The Good Husband" is the first work I have read by Gail Godwin and will not be the last. I found the book enlightening as well as pertinent. Godwin has a way of taking ordinary events and bringing a fresh, new perspective to them. For me, the novel seemed to be entertaining and at the same time, educational; designed to make a person think. I really appreciated being able to see death from Magda's perspective. I had never thought of death as a final examination. It was a revelation for me as I have had many people in my life die recently. Although some of them may not have viewed death from her perspective, it gave me a new outlook on the process. It also gave me a new perspective on life. I found the part about Francis' misericords very educational and captivating at the same time. I think that while I am in Europe, I will be visiting some cathedrals just to see for myself if they exist. Godwin must have put quite a bit of time and effort into researching the subject for it to be so detailed. I really appreciated being able to "educate" myself while at the same time "entertain" myself. While I enjoyed the entire novel, I think that the speech Hugo Henry gave on writing a novel was my favorite part. It was very clever of Godwin to weave Hugo's views, as an author, on writing a novel into her own novel. I realized how true it was when Hugo said, "If you get the beginning of your story right, it already contains the seed of its own ending. And if the ending's right, it succeeds in making the beginning inevitable"(410). I also loved how Hugo related a novel to a relationship. It seemed the perfect way for him to tell his wife, Alice, that he realized it was over for them. Godwin put the whole novel together so well that I felt like I could empathize with her characters. While I knew what would inevitably happen, I found myself just turning the pages. I cried and got angry with the characters and was sad when the novel ended. As someone once said, though I cannot remember whom, reading a book is like making new friends and when it is done, you leave. If you want to visit them again you have to reread the book. I am sure that I will be revisiting Magda, Francis, Hugo and Alice again. Meanwhile, I think I will check out some of Gail Godwin's other books and make some more new friends.

This book is wise, witty and endearing. Ms. Godwin has great emotional insight. The characters are varied and real: the larger-than-life Magda, awaiting her death from ovarian cancer; her devoted, altruistic mate, the former seminarian, Francis; Alice, searching for her life's meaning after the death of her baby; and Alice's husband, the self-absorbed novelist, Hugo. "The Good Husband" touched a chord within me.

The second book in the Martin Beck detective series. ... the emphasis is more on the police procedural than the social and political commentary which would dominate the authors' later works.

The crime in this one is again sexual in nature, although even more barbaric: the serial rape and strangulation of little girls, whose bodies subsequently turn up in parks all over Stockholm. Beck is on the case (with his trusty partner Kollberg), and the two thoroughly investigage every lead, but to no avail. The tension in the book is simple, but palpable: ... As the detectives begin to feel the heat from their superiors and the public, the killer prepares to strike again...

And then the anticlimactic ending. No car chases, no shoot-outs, no ingenious breakthroughs, no sudden flashes of psychic insight: just simple police work and a healthy infusion of old-fashioned dumb luck.

One of the better novels in the series, again to be praised for its attention to details and realism.

The Martin Beck stories written by the gifted husband and wife writers, Wahloo and Sjowall are well written and will hold your attention. Guaranteed. These are crime novels with a social conscience of the 60's era. The authors bemoan the disintegration of the Swedish and western society, where everything is worse than it used to be. Martin Beck is a cop who is no villain, and who does his job because somebody has to do it. We look at the evils of the 60's society almost with nostalgia today. If only today's society could be as bad as the one Martin Beck had to face every day. Had he been able to see into the future, Martin Beck would have indeed been thankful that he didn't have to live in 2001. When I first bought the Black Lizard edition in a Berkeley bookstore years ago, I must confess it was strictly for the slick cover of a dead man with a face in a spaghetti plate (in "Murder At the Savoy"). Soon I had to have all ten of the Wahloo-Sjowall books. I still have them, and still occasionally go back to read them again!

Serial-killer novels with the detective in hot pursuit are a dime a dozen... This is a primary source for the genre, and a literary work of the first magnitude. One of those rare books with the ring of truth, making it all the more terrifying... The protagonist Martin Beck and his colleagues are in a league of their own, among the most compelling characters in modern fiction. The Martin Beck mysteries as a whole dwarf almost any other literary achievement of the last fifty years. If you've made it this far in this review, do yourself a favor and read one of these books. You won't regret it.

While 15-year-old Molly Witherspoon's mother is away on business in Japan for three months, Molly and her four sisters (Lizzie, Emma, Ralph, and Clementine) are left to run the house on their own, with the occasional supervision from their absentminded father. During this time, Molly is busy working on her Today's Family class presentation. She intends to film her siblings in their everyday lives, hoping to shed some light on her misunderstood family, especially since one of her sisters (Emma, the eccentric 16-year-old who is interested in the occult) is the laughingstock at their high school. In addition to that, Molly has accepted a bet with Candy Carlisle (her arch rival since the second grade), that whomever gets a lower grade on their class presentation has to publicly praise the other's work. Yet this last matter isn't entirely wrapped up by the end of the book. (...)

On occasion, the Witherspoon family is chaotic and weird, but, surprisingly, Molly and her four sisters get along very well. They're like the mirror image of the March sisters in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women". In that respect, they are quite unusual. Still, "Molly and the Great American Family" is a heartwarming story of family/sister bonds, and their ability to solve everyday problems together is exemplary. This is a decent book for preteen and older girls, especially ones that can relate to the Witherspoon household.

This book was teriffic! It showed how a family that may seen a bit odd to everybody elese is a fun family to live with. It shows how the "typical" american family is more boring than the family that is diffrent and does diffrent things than other familes. I loved this book and you should defintly buy it!

This was an extremely good book. I read the comments from another reader, and I totally disagree with their remark. Some of the characters may seem annoying at times, but that is the way they are meant to be. I think it would be the worst thing to read a book in which all the characters were nice and goody-goodys. Then it's boring! Molly and the Great American Family was well-written and there was always a clear explanation of each situation. I never once felt like I did not know what was going on. The best quality of this family I thought was their loyalty to one another. That's very uncommon. I think that this book is fit for any age, but particularly for teens because it relates most to them.

I first read this book while I was in Junior High ( many years ago) and it's still on my bookshelf. I drag it out and reread it every so often because it's a fascinating, well written, really captivating story with a lot of historical detail and well developed charactors. It's one of those books you can read in one or two sittings because you are so drawn in and involved.
The only thing I did not like was the author's negitive portrayal of British Withchcraft, I've met British Witches and know they are not the evil cat sacrificing folks depicted in the story. But I will forgive the author for this blunder, since there is so much ignorance out there and he was working with the limited information available at the time the book was written.
Overall, it was a great read and a great story.When I was a kid, I was just cativated by the description of an ancient old house way out in the country that you had to reach by land rover, still available in our modern world. It was like a trip into another world.

i love this book so much. i used to read it every week and i never got bored with it. its rilly well written and it end with a cliffhnger that will leave you asking "what next?" its a book based on some facts but mostly from his imagination. and will takes advantage of the situation and he seems to make most of the things from his mind and uses those to get in trouble. i love this book!!!!!

I'm 33 and I STILL remember this book 20 years later. I enjoyed reading the other reviews to reaquaint myself with the plot (of which I had absolutely No memory, but hey, it was 20 years ago). What I did remember was the atmosphere. This story is so well done it stays with you. A phenomenal read!

I love Blair Walker's writing. It's witty and smart and thouroughly entertaining. I started laughing out loud on the first four pages and from there on I was hooked. The cast of characters are well developed and whether bad or good guys, have dimension and depth. The story moves briskly and keeps the reader engaged until the last page. I can't wait for the next Daryl Billups installment.

Darryl Billups lastest assignment for the Baltimore Herald is to investigate the case of the female corpse found at Safe and Sound a storage facility. Darryl and his longtime live in girlfriend Yolanda breakup after a dinner filled with drama at
her parents home. Discovering the corpse was murdered and missing for eighteen years. Darryl and the beautiful, smart newly promoted to detective Thelma Holmes solve the case. Great mystery with action and unexpected twists.

BLAIR S. WALKER IS A MYSTERY WRITER WHO MUST LOVE A GOOD STORY."DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES" IS A PAGE TURNER FOR SURE,A BOOK THAT YOU'LL REMEMBER AFTER YOU'RE DONE READING.

I am 13 and I haven't read this type of book in about 6 months ever since my sister got me hooked on Jane Austen and L.M. Montgomery. It is in a way realistic and in a way not at all. She has a crush on the cutest guy in the school and stands up to her rights and he ends up asking her out at the end. If my 7th grade year had turned out that way believe me I would have wrote a book about it too. But I honestly do not see why on earth she would like a jerk like Scottie, And why is he still dating the coolest girlin the school when he asks her out? These are questions that I am sure can't be answered so I am just gonna retire from that sort of book untill I become a genius.

Although I originally got the girl talk series because I had the game, I quickly bored with the substandard writing and the paper thin plots.

Other than a brief mention and discussion of Title IX, and women's rights, there was very little to keep me glued to the rest of the series. I have perpetually found the telephone conversations throughout the book anoying and space wasting. There is nothing said in those conversations that could not be said outloud.

When I got older, I naturally gave the others away for charity, but kept this one because of the quasi-feminism in the book. Katie proves that gender is artifically constructed, it is hip for young girls to know their rights under federal law and non-conventional women can get the realy hot guy. Happily, this deviates from tradditional character structure for young adults.

Because so much of what I rememeber from Junior high said the popular girls were quiet, non-activist and tradditional, I really liked the ending. Like Katie, I was beining to discover my voice at the time, unlike her, I did not have as much personal popularity after using it. Kudos for the mass media for giving another perspective and the next generation hope!!

Face-Off is a super good book ALL kids should read about. Face-Off is about four friends, one crush, and one perfectly bratty older sister. This story is about a 13-year old named Katie Campbell and her friends: Randy Zac, Allison Cloud, and Sabrina Wells. Katie likes a guy named Scottie Silver, but you'll have to read this book to find out how Scottie feels about Katie. To see what other suprises happen you'll have to read Face-Off.