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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I was expecting this book to get better with time, but the characters stayed two-dimensional and the sentence length stayed annoying. In fact, the only thing that changed was the plot, which only became more convoluted as the book dragged on. It was as if the writer suddenly realized how stupid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35972745">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[_Firestorm_ is my initiation into the unfamiliar world of eco-fantasy, which I confess I liked much better than most straight-up fantasy or sticky-sweet ecologically concerned books.<br/><br/>Jack goes from a great football game and a night out with his girlfriend to being hunted by beings from an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40552433">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn&#8217;t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He&#8217;d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they&#8217;ve found him. Jack plunges into a space-time&#8211;bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets. But one thing he learns fast: Trust no one. After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it&#8217;s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man&#8217;s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong?<br/> <br/>In the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, readers are taken on an electrifying, fast-paced adventure of hunting truth, all in the name of staying alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an environmentally themed book that I enjoyed much more than Hoot. It is also an adventure thriller that is more thrilling than the Alex Rider books. Yet, it doesn't seem to have the popularity of either of those other books. Jack has had a normal childhood with attentive parents, good grade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62227445">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn&#8217;t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He&#8217;d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they&#8217;ve found him. Jack plunges into a space-time&#8211;bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets. But one thing he learns fast: Trust no one. After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it&#8217;s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man&#8217;s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong?<br/> <br/>In the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, readers are taken on an electrifying, fast-paced adventure of hunting truth, all in the name of staying alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did you ever think that beating a high school record would result in a game of fighting for your life? In the Caretaker Trilogy, the first novel, <u>Firestorm</u>, the author David Klass describes this adventure with short and action-filled prose that kept me flipping the pages. Jack is immediately plunged...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53252959">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn&#8217;t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He&#8217;d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they&#8217;ve found him. Jack plunges into a space-time&#8211;bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets. But one thing he learns fast: Trust no one. After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it&#8217;s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man&#8217;s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong?<br/> <br/>In the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, readers are taken on an electrifying, fast-paced adventure of hunting truth, all in the name of staying alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I finished the book, and well, it was nothing that I expected it to be. There is no plot, all the characters just blow stuff up, and the idea of the book as a whole is hard to identify.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn&#8217;t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He&#8217;d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they&#8217;ve found him. Jack plunges into a space-time&#8211;bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets. But one thing he learns fast: Trust no one. After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it&#8217;s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man&#8217;s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong?<br/> <br/>In the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, readers are taken on an electrifying, fast-paced adventure of hunting truth, all in the name of staying alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Think pace is determined by sentence length?  So does David Klass and his earth-saving narrator, Jack Danielson, who has been sent back in time to save the planet by finding Firestorm, something prophesied to save the earth, only, of course, no one knows what it is.  His telepathic dog Gisco is lova...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21742077">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. And if Jack he hadn&#8217;t broken the high school rushing record that night, nothing would have changed. He&#8217;d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J.<br/>     But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they have found him.<br/>     Ripped from the only world he has ever known, Jack plunges into a space-time&#8211;bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets they say he can&#8217;t handle. But some things he learns fast: Trust no one. Never forget that your friends could reveal themselves as your enemies at any second. Every turn leads to betrayal. And if you don&#8217;t go along with it, you die.<br/>     After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it&#8217;s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man&#8217;s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong?&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has &quot;reluctant reader&quot; written all over it. It was like reading a video game. I agree with other reviews about limited character development, but I adjusted my expectations pretty quickly so I wasn't disappointed by Jack's perpetual boy-ness, or Dargon's bad guy shtick.  Eko was a let...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80696000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I hated the sentence fragments. Hardly a &quot;the&quot; in the entire book: how pretentious! The story was ALL OVER THE PLACE, and I didn't care enough about the main character (especially his sense of humor) to try to keep up with it. What a drudge. Some talk of sex, so I'd give it to 9th graders ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34747655">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favorite books. it really shows the issues we as humans have created. It shows we need to do something to save the oceans before it's too late. oh and i love eko and jack together. i really hope they end up that way!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>It's always interesting to read the blurbs on the front of a book. You know the ones I mean; the recommendations from fellow authors about why you should pick up a copy of the book in question. What's even more interesting is when the blurb comes from s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21561415">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn&#8217;t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He&#8217;d just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And now they&#8217;ve found him. Jack plunges into a space-time&#8211;bending game of survival with no way out. The rules are shrouded in secrets. But one thing he learns fast: Trust no one. After centuries of abuse, the earth is dying, and it&#8217;s up to Jack to reverse the decline before the Turning Point, when nothing will ever be the same again. Beaten into shape by a ninja babe and a huge telepathic man&#8217;s best friend, Jack hurtles across the ocean to save the future from the present and to solve the mystery of his purpose. Exactly who, or what, is Firestorm, and what does it have to do with Jack? And what comes next when everything you have ever known turns out to be wrong?<br/> <br/>In the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, readers are taken on an electrifying, fast-paced adventure of hunting truth, all in the name of staying alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh.  I actually skimmed the last 100+ pages of this book so I could get the general idea of the book, since I have to review the third book in the series.  Choppy, boring, undeveloped.  I didn't want to pick it up and read it.  I didn't care about Jack.  Did I mention it was boring?  Even though I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80515821">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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