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I’m critiquing a book called Frozen Fire by James Houston. The events of this novel don’t really follow a believable process. There are pretty unbelievable things like crazy people living in holes in the middle of the arctic. The intro does kind of link to the main body of the novel by having the story based on one thing because it starts off at an airport in Montreal going to the arctic. I don't think the climax was very exiting because nothing happens a lot , it is mostly walking. At the end there are questions left unanswered like what happens after and how the dad got rescued. It seems like the author just rushed the end to make the book done which made it all seem cluttered.
The characters (Matthew and Kayak) do change through the story by facing the cold barren arctic and surviving for days without food. Also Matthew changes by listening to Kayak which helps him become more knowledgeable about the arctic.
The author isn’t very descriptive because he only mentions things instead of describing them. Scenes lack excitement because of lack of describing. Ex. 1. "Is that an Eskimo?" Matthew whispered, staring at the short, deeply tanned man with wide cheekbones. Ex. 2. "That can't be a school," said Matthew. "It looks more like a round silver spaceship with red markings."
I would rate this book a 5.5 out of 10 because the plot wasn't very good and was very undescriptive.
Posted by 24136 on 4/12/07; 1:35:53 PM
from the Jaxson dept.
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