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Red Is for Remembrance (Stolarz Series)

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Okay so Stacy is dreaming again, only this time no bodily fluids (anyone else disappointed?). In her dream a girl is telling her to help or "he will die." Convinced this will bring her to Jacob, she agrees to help the president at her school whose daughter is having nightmares and is on the brink of being institutionalized.
At the same time a guy named Shell is at a campground in the middle of nowhere with no memory of his past or anything other than the camp. The camp works much like a cult, the leader is all powerful, they are shut out of the outside world and forced to "love" other members. He knows there's something else out there, or should I say someONE else, but he just cant remember.
All of our favorite charactors are back: Amber, Drea, PJ, and Chad, along with some fun new charactors, my favorite being Janie the Christian roomate who is against witchcraft but not sex outside of marriage.

This book really wraps up the series. I really hope she writes another one, though from the feeling at the end she won't. What to write, well, Stacey goes off to college with a full scholarship. This time her dreams aren't as alarming. This time she wants to have dreams so to dream about Jacob. She really is lost without him.

Then there is another character, Shell, who has another story. He has amnesia and cant remember anything. The only clear thing about him is that he is sure someone is looking for him, he can feel it. But he doesn't know who she is. It is clear though, from his dreams, that she is his partner.

Stacey finds someone else who is also having nightmares and she thinks they are about Jacob dying. Everyone tells her just to let go, to forget, to move one. But all she wants to do is remember. She turns out to be very wrong about Jacob dying (again). The girl's dreams are about someone else. Stacey gets so caught up in finding out about Jacob, if he's alive, that she forgets the most important thing is to help someone else. For awhile she becomes selfish. Then she realizes what she has to do. The climax has you holding your breath, and at the end you can't help feeling sorry for Stacey. But the epilouge makes you feel hopeful. I hope to god she writes another book in this series. It just doesn't feel finished yet.

red is for remembrance was over all a good book. not as good as some of the other books in the series, but still pretty good. the begining kind of dragged a bit, since all Stacy seemed to be doing was sleeping and crying over Jacob. though in the middle it picked up. i also liked how the book had a chapter that was in Stacy's point of view, then in a dude called shell's. who you will come to figure out who he is later.
i recomend buying this book if you've read the others, since it answers some questions.

Five months after her boyfriend was pushed overboard and never seen again, Stacey Brown is now at university with a full scholarship. Even though she doesn't actually attend lectures, and when she does she fails tests. And forget sororities, sports and shagging - all she does is down tranquilisers, and perform spells that used to help her but don't anymore.

The uni's president brought Stacey here to help his troubled teen daughter, who's having nightmares of a death not yet committed. At first Stacey tries to help Porsha for selfish reasons, but the pair makes a breakthrough to become friends, and Stacey no longer puts herself first.

It's so hard to discuss this book without major spoilers, but RED IS FOR REMEMBRANCE is lovable. The entire series is fabulous, but this outing steps up with an added dimension. Some plot points may be predictable, but they're still great rides. Even though some characters are annoying, that doesn't matter.

This is a series to glom. I love how the spells have ingredients, instead of just "magic". I love Stacey's awkward social graces. I love the spookiness, and the suspense. But here's the tricky part: Published in 2005, this book and its predecessors may be hard to find, though there's a boxed set you may be able to purchase. I'm now ultra-eagerly awaiting the upcoming graphic novel BLACK IS FOR BEGINNINGS. Laurie Faria Stolarz's work is so underrated, and well deserving of new fans.

hi I am 12 yrs. old, i have read the three books before this one. and i love them all. i think that silver is for secrets was so sad i have read them all 3 time each. i kinda wish theree was a 5th one even thouhg i noe there wont be

I really enjoyed this book; however, it is a little predictable. Red was not as fast-paced for me as Silver and White. You miss some of the main characters constant appearance, apart from Amber. And every few chapters it swichtes from Stacy's point of view to a guy named Shell. And after a few of Shell's chapters, you begin to piece together who he is. Still, a definitly good book that was much needed. NOW we need another one! :)

The final book in the Blue is for Nightmares series by Laurie Faria Stolarz. This book was a good read and good conclusion to the series. I didn't think it was as good as the previous books though. This book didn't have nearly the suspense elements of the previous books.

In this book Stacey is at college and rooming with Amber. After Jacob's death she is fighting to not succumb completely to depression, when she starts having nightmares again. The president of the university contacts her and wants her to help his daughter Porscha, who also has strange dreams about death that are driving her crazy. Stacey's dream are hinting that maybe if she can help Porscha than she can save another boy's life; why does Stacey get the feeling this all has something to do with Jacob?

This was an easy read, a well-written book, and a nice conclusion to the series. That being said I was a little disappointed with the book in general. This book never had the creepiness of the previous books. In fact there weren't really many horror elements at all. There was a little mystery but not nearly to the degree of the previous books. As for the chapters alternating between Stacey and the mysterious Shell; I figured out the part that Shell would play in the story right in the beginning and was disappointed to find out I was right. I kind of felt like Stolarz was sick of writing this series and just wanted to wrap it up in the quickest way possible; and in a way that would leave her readers happy and not disgruntled.

This was a fine conclusion to the series but I really felt like Stolarz didn't put much into the story; she is extraordinary at writing creepy horror scenes but she kind of skipped out on that for this book. I was just so disappointed. Should you read the book? Well you kind of have to given how "Silver is for Secrets" left us all completely hanging mid-scene. Will I read more books by Stolarz after reading this series? Probably not. Although it would be interesting for her to do a couple books about Porscha.

This is a great book for teens and young teens. If you have read Ms. Stolarz's other books in the series you will come to agree with me that this is a very wonderful book. With the author's vivid imagination and extraordinary use of voice, it will probably leave you in awe and the question of how could this be made-up when it all seems so real? Keep up the good work Laurie!

i just finished red is for remembrance last night nd i really liked it. at first it was a little confusing with the Stacey and Shell chapters, but it came together at the end. although i guessed who Shell was half way through the book and got it right, it was still a really good book and i would reccomend whoever red blue, white, and silver, should read this one...it reveals the questions you had from silver!

Just as MorganSky said, this book really wraps up the whole series. Stacy finds Jacob...Jacod remebers everything...They live together forever.

I don't know about you guys, but this book didn't have as much suspence as the last three. (Come to think about it, Silver didn't get as climatic as Blue and White did.)

Don't get me wrong, I love the whole series, but my favorites are the first two.

I'd like to see the author write another one but I think that Stacy having the nightmares is getting, for lack of a better word, old. The story should have Stacy, but maybe a new Freshman at the college is the story center. Who knows?

The author has a style of writing that is quite unlike any other books I've read. She uses the language and slang that teens use, so it appeals to a wider teen audience. She builds up to the climax of the story so well that after the second chapter, your afraid to put it down. (Especially in the case of Blue, I couldn't put it down after Chapter Two for fear of haveing nightmares myself.)

I recomend the whole series to teenagers who like suspence, mystery, and some everyday high school/college drama (HaHa).