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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Silent Witness,
By Andrea (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Silent Witness (Paperback)
The book Silent Witness was written by Carol Ellis. This book is a mystery about a girl named Lucy, Lucy's friend Allan died. He lived across the street from her. No one really knew exactly what had happend except that Allan was walking on a hill and fell and died. Allan's mom gave Lucy a box full of Allan's things, his mom wanted Lucy to give the things away to his friends so they would have something to remember him by. Lucy found a video in the box and desided to keep it for herself, but that video has evidence of a crime, and someone would do anything to get rid of it. The only problem was that because Lucy kept that video she was about to experience many difficult obsticles..her last obsticle was to find out if she was the next to die.What I liked about this book is that it always found a way to keep my interest. It never got boring. I also like that it was a bit scary and always kept you in suspence, wondering what was going to happen next. I especially like how this book has a surprising and interesting twist close to the end. You would never suspect, even with to clues the author gives you, that this book was going to end the way it did. I would certainly recommend this book to others. Especially if you like reading mystery books. You would also like this book if you like books that are light reads and that wont bore you at any point. This book is excellent and I'm sure anyone who reads it would think the same.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Average.....,
By T (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Silent Witness (Paperback)
"Silent Witness" by Carol Witness was an okay book. I thought it was going to be a lot better, but it could've been worse. The storyline revolves around a girl named Lucy. Recently, her friend Allen died. Allen's mother gives away some of his belongings and Lucy gets ahold of a video tape recorded by Allen. At first, Lucy thinks that the tapings were of fun encounters; the school car wash, a party, etc. It seems fine until she witnesses something deadly on it! Something that someone would kill to get back...I thought that the book was pretty good. Maybe I've read a bit too many young adult thrillers, but this one wasn't one of my favorites. It moved a little slow but the ending was pretty cool. Overall, it wasn't bad. Also recommended:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid mystery thriller for young mystery readers,
By Mark Louis Baumgart (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Silent Witness (Paperback)
Carol Ellis was one of a series of young adult thriller writers to appear during the young adult horror/thriller boom of the nineties. Some like R. L. Stine, Ritchie Tankersley Cusick, Caroline Cooney, and Christopher Pike are still around, while others like D. E. Athkins, A. Bates, Fred E. Katz and sadly Carol Ellis have seemed to have faded away and seemed to have stopped writing, at least under these names. A shame, since Carol Ellis, on the basis of the two books of hers that I have read was a pretty good novelist, even if her books seemed a bit rushed.
In "Silent Witness", Lucy Monroe's next-door neighbor and friend Allen has recently died, and his parents have given her a box of his stuff for her to distribute to his friends at school. Amongst the bric-a-brac is a compilation VHS tape that the amateur filmmaker Allen made as he practiced with his camera. Lucy takes the bag of Allen's stuff to school and asks his friends if they want any of it. Then Lucy finds that strange stuff is starting to happen, she sees a strange light in Allen's house while his parents are away, there are hang-up phone calls, her locker is broken into and searched, and her friend Jenny is attacked while wearing Lucy's poncho. All of these this seems to revolve around the video tape that Lucy has decided to keep, as it is the only thing of Allen's that she had let known that she intended to keep. Unlike "The Body" which I have also read, Ellis doesn't play fair this time around as there are no real clues as to who the real villain is, the killer's identity seems to come right out of left field. Ellis seems more influenced by writers like Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers more than authors like Dean Koontz or Raymond Chandler as "Silent Witness" is more mystery oriented than thriller oriented with a big red herring that will either fool or be obvious to many readers. This is what then makes "Silent Witness" a clever and fast moving short mystery thriller that is light on violence and conflict, with no inappropriate behavior being done by the teenagers that should please many young mystery fans, especially as Lucy is as likable a character as she is a reluctant heroine. And one last thing, this novel is 195 pages long, not ten like as is listed on this page.
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