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Hunter in the Dark (Gemini Book)

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I read the longer version.Mike Rankin has spent the last year mostly in the hospital.He is diagnosed with leukemia,and dreams of when he can go hunting. His parents will not allow him to leave.Now he is out in the bush hunting,tracking a troubled stag and reflecting on his dillema.

This book was so hard to get what it was talking about because it kept on mixing things that happened in Mike's past and future. It was very confusing. I think the story doesn't give enough details to let the people understand the story.

I never understand when he is dreaming or not. I read one of the reviews and it said that he dreamed of going hunting while he was in the hospital with leukemia, but I thought it was the other way around. I thought he was actually hunting but from time to time was dreaming of being in the hospital with leukemia. Now I am even mor confused than before.

Ever time I tried to read this book I fell asleep, I had to read it for a book report in school in grade nine. Even though I am an amazing English student this book was hard to get into. This book was really boring at the begining and not that good. The story got confusing when it kept going back and forth from the past and present. I think this book would have been better if the W.W Cross Institude was in it.

Th is book was a very good book. it kept me hanging on the very edge of my seat.a real cliffhanger

This book was really boring. I had a hard time reading it. I haven't read any of her other books but I think they're not like this. I think the theme of theis book is good but it doesn't really have any action/suspense.

Rating: 2 stars. Author: Monica Hughes.

The story "Hunter In The Dark," by Monica Hughes is about a boy named Mike who is in realistic situations in everyday life, who faces challenges in and out of school. Mike has a somewhat perfect life. He has a beautiful girlfriend named Gloria, he's on the school basketball team, and is keeping his grades up to date, and is earning a pretty strong B average. All of that falls apart, when Mike suddenly falls apart on the basketball court one day, during a game after school in his school gym. He soon finds out he might have a blood disease called anemia, but after weeks and weeks he soon realizes that he is not getting better, and he might have an even greater disease.

Overall, I believe the quality of the book is somewhat okay, but the thing that really disappointed me was that there was no interest grabbing me, or taking me into the story. I couldn't feel there, and it was not a page turner, and I got bored of it at parts of the book, because things were not flowing, and in my opinion, the sentences were poorly detailed, and did not have any meaning, or description hardly. I've read some really good books before, and you didn't want to put them down, and you didn't want the story to end, you wanted it to keep going, but with this book, I felt it had no magic, or the qualities a well-written book should have.

I like to hunt so I thougt I might like it.The book is about a boy that likes to hunt. The book could have been more about hunting. How come the boy diden't hunt in the dark. They could have when't into more hunting deatales.Why did the story go from school to home then to the woods. How come it wasn't just in the woods.But over all I liked the book.

The people in the book are Mike Rankin,Doug and Doug's dad are the mane people in the book. The setting was in the woods and at home and at school.

Mike shot the big deer he was looking for.He won the race betwen him and his dad. They like to hunt becuse the boath in joied doing it. I hunt couse I ijoy hunting with my dad to . so me and Mike are like the some.

It was the worst book I've ever read ,because It caused me a lot of troubles at school ,and it was prety boring ,and it's a govno