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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"A one-way ticket... to terror.",
By A Customer
This review is from: Train (Point) (Paperback)
Hannah Deaton--along with 29 other Parker High students and 2 chaperoning teachers--is expecting the August train tour from Chicago to San Francisco to be a lot of fun. However, there's just one distraction--a coffin is being transported in the baggage compartment of the train, and inside is the body of Frederick Roger Drummond, aka Frog, the late troublemaker at Parker High who recently died in a fiery automobile accident.Shortly after departure, some students are mysteriously attacked, including Hannah who is knocked unconscious and placed in Frog's empty coffin. But where was Frog's body if not in the coffin? Accordingly, Hannah starts to believe Frog isn't dead, that he's instead seeking revenge on Hannah and her friends for being so mean to him last year. I thought "The Train" was an all right book, but it's not my favorite; it's more of a 4 or 4 1/2-rating than a 5. The train setting was great though since I love trains, and the book vaguely reminded me of the cheesy 1980 horror flick starring Jamie Lee Curtis called "Terror Train". However, some scenes were somewhat drawn-out, like the one with Hannah locked in the coffin; and sometimes the characters were thinking far too slowly for the reader or reacted too predictably. Still, if you're into Point horror books and like Diane Hoh, then you'll probably like "The Train". For readers age 12 and up.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bit Unrealistic but Stays on the Tracks of an Enjoyable Read,
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This review is from: The Train (Paperback)
Hannah and her other high school friends are part of the school's field trip to San Francisco travelling by train from Chicago. Kerry who needs to put on makeup every ten minutes and change clothes every hour is enraged when the conductor takes her vastly too large carry on to the baggage car from her whipped boyfriend who was struggling getting it onto the train. When she goes to get it she finds the coffin of a recently deceased class member is also going to San Francisco. Even though she, Hannah and the rest of the gang had treated the kid they had forced the nick name of Frog onto like a social leper and made his life miserable she throws a tantrum about having to share the train with his corpse which much to her disgust gets her nowhere. When the train enters its first tunnel and the Frog's girlfriend is found nearly strangled to death the terror begins for the gang of friends. Hannah seems to be of special interest to the murderer but she won't tell her friends why. It seems that Frog is not happily staying in his coffin and she and her friends are in grave danger.
It was an enjoyable quick read and is ideal to read if you have to kill a few hours somewhere, maybe even at the train station. You do have to overlook that surely after an attempted murder the train would be stopped at the next town and all suspects removed to an interview room with the local police but obviously they have to stay on the train for the story to happen. I've caught the train from Chicago to San Francisco and it doesn't stop for a half a day in Denver either, it stops at places to refuel yes but not a whole morning and there's no way it would delay hundreds of passengers to wait for one teenager to reappear or not. Also why they would expect the corpse of Frog to be in the very same coffin they rescued Hannah from seems to defy logic. If you can overlook these things and accept the work as pure fiction then this is a very enjoyable read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It was pretty good.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Train (Point) (Paperback)
I had never read any of Diane Hoh's books until I read this. It was okay. I was scared at some moments. But, for the whole time, Hannah just kept whining about being trapped in a coffin. I mean, it wasn't that big of a deal. And the ending was okay, it could have been better if it end ended on the train. And the part where one train rider (i won't say who) gets thrown off the train was kinda stupid. No offense to Ms. Hoh. Still, it was an okay book...I just think it could have had some more.Oh yeah, if you liked that book, you'll probably like the movie "Terror Train." It's so scary!
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