War of the Black Curtain (Jimmy Fincher Saga Book 4) [Paperback]

James Dashner (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Jimmie Fincher Saga

The Black Curtain has ripped open, massive and dark. The Stompers swarm through it, elusive and frightening. The Black Coma consumes the people of the Earth. Shadow Ka rule the lands with a mighty vengeance. Everything has come to a head, and the world is grim. Jimmy Fincher is the only one who can save it. To accomplish the impossible, he must solve the Riddle of the Red Disk. He must find the Dream Warden and receive the Fourth Gift. He must go to a place where nightmares live—and face them alone. But most important of all, Jimmy must face the shocking and terrible truth of what lies beneath his enemy’s true nature. The War has just begun.

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About the Author

James Dashner was born and raised in Georgia. He grew up a southerner, with five brothers and sisters, and loved every minute of it. Although he now currently resides in Utah, he will always be a southerner at heart. After high school, James attended Brigham Young University, where he went on to receive a Masters Degree in Accounting. He also took a couple of years off and served a mission in Japan. Since graduation, he has received his CPA, worked for a major audit firm, and now currently works as a financial analyst. James has been married for five years, to Lynette Anderson from West Valley City, Utah. He has two children, Wesley and Bryson. It’s a cliché, but they really are the joy of his life. James also enjoys movies, reading, going to the theater, and, above all else, sports.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555178790
• ISBN-13: 978-1555178796
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #582,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Dashner is the New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner trilogy and The 13th Reality series. Learn more by checking out his website, www.jamesdashner.com.

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3.0 out of 5 stars this series was a long slog, January 25, 2012

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audrey (white mtns) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: War of the Black Curtain (Jimmy Fincher Saga Book 4) (Paperback)

This is the fourth and final book in the Jimmy Fincher series. I like James Dashner and thought this series was pretty good, but by the end I really was just looking for some closure. I think the series would have been better if it'd been two books, maybe three, but while the author has an amazing imagination, one wonders what, after all, this all added up to. If you look at the four books on Amazon the first book, "A Door in the Woods" had twenty-three fairly positive reviews; the second and third books, "The Gift of Ice" and "The Tower of Air", had four reviews each; and at the time of this writing, this book has one review. The reviewers are dropping like flies! The premise is astonishing and the narrative voice is appealing, but the concepts are ultimately pretty goofy and the books become less and less accessible. No questions are really answered. The Givers (who are helping Jimmy and therefore the Earth) spout a lot of nonsensical oddness, give him four pretty weird "gifts" and send him on bizarre missions, and the ending was okay but not particularly interesting or emotionally satisfying. (The epilogue was pretty great, but it didn't make up for having to read through a thousand pages of mediocre fantasy.) Raspy, the main villain, seems very difficult to kill but then in the last book is dispatched in a sentence. The characters who accompany Jimmy on his adventures are barely mentioned in the last book, so the reader never really gets any closure about them.

Ultimately a disappointing conclusion to an overly long and basically inaccessible series. As I said, I've enjoyed Dashner's work before but will approach his work with more caution in the future.

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5.0 out of 5 stars War of the Black Curtain, October 21, 2007

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Devin Dehlin "Froofy9" (Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: War of the Black Curtain (Jimmy Fincher Saga Book 4) (Paperback)

This was the favorite I have ever read in my life. It is so good, the whole series is even better. Please read this book. James Dashner did such a good job in this book with the charecters and the how he explained how Jimmy felt was amazing. Read this whole series and I promise you will love them. If you like fantasy, action, and mystery put together read these now.