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Fire Will Fall (Streams of Babel #2)
ShadowStrike poisoned the water of Trinity Falls two months ago. Now the Trinity Four, the teens most affected by the poison, have been isolated in a remote mansion under twenty-four-hour medical care while scientists on four continents rush to discover a cure. Meanwhile, U.S. operatives scour the world for the bioterrorists responsible for this heinous crime, as two teen...more
Hardcover, 496 pages
Published
May 3rd 2010
by Harcourt Children's Books
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Fire Will Fall is the sequel to Streams of Babel which I did not read, but the story was still easy to follow and enough background was provided to set a suspenseful tone and conflict. The series is about a group of teens who survived a bioterrorist attack on the NY/NJ water system, and the two teen hackers who were respnsible for discovering the identity of those terrorists. In Fire Will Fall the sick teens are in hiding receiving 24 hour medical care and protection. Doctors are hoping to keep...more
Didn't read 1st book, but still very good, June 2, 2012
I received this book from a friend. Upfront, I'll just say I didn't read the first book in the series. Not intentional. The book does a good job of keeping things fresh while bringing in backstory. Not sure how much of it would've been rehash. In any case, as a standalone, a good read.
Some people won't like the alternating points of view (Scott, Owen, Cora, and Rain), but I didn't mind. It took a bit of getting used to, of course. The story...more
I received this book from a friend. Upfront, I'll just say I didn't read the first book in the series. Not intentional. The book does a good job of keeping things fresh while bringing in backstory. Not sure how much of it would've been rehash. In any case, as a standalone, a good read.
Some people won't like the alternating points of view (Scott, Owen, Cora, and Rain), but I didn't mind. It took a bit of getting used to, of course. The story...more
I didn't know until lately that this is the sequel to Streams of Babel. This novel stands by itself, but for greater interest you probably should read the first.
The story is told in alternating chapters which is a downer for me. I lose track of what's happening or if I don't like a character I resent reading about them too much; if I like a character I want to skip over to they parts where he/she is featured. Anyway, this is not my kind of format.
The story: Trinity Falls' water supply was infect...more
The story is told in alternating chapters which is a downer for me. I lose track of what's happening or if I don't like a character I resent reading about them too much; if I like a character I want to skip over to they parts where he/she is featured. Anyway, this is not my kind of format.
The story: Trinity Falls' water supply was infect...more
Trinity Falls' water supply was infected with a virus when bioterrorists attacked it two months earlier. In the aftermath of the attack, the 4 teens who were the most affected by the virus are moved to a big mansion so that their health can be watched more closesly. Plagued by symtoms and emotional scars from the attack on Trinity Falls, they have to try and get along with each other. To make things worse, the bioterrorists might just try to come back and finish the job. Will the teens recover c...more
In Streams of Babel, the book that preceeds this volume, Plum-Ucci introduced readers to a series of teens pulled into the center of the War on Terror. Four teens (among others) living in a s small New Jersey town named Trinity are infected in with a bio-engineered virus that causes widespread illness and even the death of two of their mothers. The Trinity Four, as they have become known in the press, have become stabilized and have been moved to live on a small estate in a New Jersey coastal to...more
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I thought the book was a very good read. I took a long time to read it because I wanted to space it out because it was an interesting read. Fire Will Fall was not as predictable as I thought it would be, except for how the couples were going to be. I always knew Rain and Owen were going to be together.. And even though Cora was hard to get, she finally gets with Scott in the end. However, one of the Shadowstrike agents completely caught me off guard becaus...more
I thought the book was a very good read. I took a long time to read it because I wanted to space it out because it was an interesting read. Fire Will Fall was not as predictable as I thought it would be, except for how the couples were going to be. I always knew Rain and Owen were going to be together.. And even though Cora was hard to get, she finally gets with Scott in the end. However, one of the Shadowstrike agents completely caught me off guard becaus...more
Plum-Ucci creates a frightening version of our world that hits close to home. Fire Will Fall is the sequel to Streams of Babel. I was fortunate to be able to read them back to back, which maybe wasn't a good thing. The books are heavy and dark and emotionally draining. Set in South Jersey in the spring/summer of 2002, Fire Will Fall deals with the aftermath of 6 teens who were victims of bioterrorism. I like that Plum-Ucci sets the novel in the past, close to 9-11. After talking to my students a...more
I was handed this ARC with the directive: "Read this, I really want to know what you think." Someone knows how to woo me!
I had never heard of Carol Plum-Ucci before, but she's on my radar now!
A New Jersey resident, and Young Adult author, Plum-Ucci has been the recipient of countless awards, including, but not limited to, the Michael L. Printz Honor, Edgar Allan Poe Award, ALA's Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults, and Amazon Editor's #1 Choice in Young Literature. She has had great success with...more
I had never heard of Carol Plum-Ucci before, but she's on my radar now!
A New Jersey resident, and Young Adult author, Plum-Ucci has been the recipient of countless awards, including, but not limited to, the Michael L. Printz Honor, Edgar Allan Poe Award, ALA's Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults, and Amazon Editor's #1 Choice in Young Literature. She has had great success with...more
I really liked this story about bioterrorism, teens, and growing up with a lot of baggage. The writing was mostly well done, characterization well done. I felt the dialogue between the teens, especially some of the very candid conversations they had about sex were pretty typical for today's teens.
However, there were parts where I felt the dialogue went on too long and interferred with the story's progression. There were parts when the teens were thinking, or saying, things in a much more experi...more
However, there were parts where I felt the dialogue went on too long and interferred with the story's progression. There were parts when the teens were thinking, or saying, things in a much more experi...more
I'm not entirely sure where to begin in reviewing this book. I guess I can start with the pros and see where that leads me.
Pros:
-less cussing; at least now the author doesn't seem to be arbitrarily throwing curse words in there for the sake of throwing them in there
-it focused more on the recovery than the terrorism aspect (though I consider this is both a pro and con because you get to see a different side of the story but for other reasons this wasn't the smartest move which I will discuss lat...more
Pros:
-less cussing; at least now the author doesn't seem to be arbitrarily throwing curse words in there for the sake of throwing them in there
-it focused more on the recovery than the terrorism aspect (though I consider this is both a pro and con because you get to see a different side of the story but for other reasons this wasn't the smartest move which I will discuss lat...more
This book has it all - mystery, terrorism, spies, computer hackers and international conspiracies. It will make you question how well our government can protect us from those who really want to do us harm. Fire will Fall is the sequel to Carol Plum-Ucci's Streams of Babel and makes us think about the threats to the US in a post-911 world. Shadowstrike is an extremist group with plans to poison the water and have as many Americans "die like mangy dogs". A young pakistani computer hacker finds out...more
So im going to go politcal in this reveiw and give you my pros and cons for this book.
Pros:
They killed the demonic terroist.
They found a cure for the "fanastic four"s disease.
Cora and Scott became a couple.
Cora find out who her dad is (kind of in a sense).
Owen and Rain gets to "third base and slides home"!
Rains pregnet with Owens child.
Cons:
Owen dies.
Rain might die giving birth to Owens unborn child.
Cora never will find her dad.
Owen Dies!
Other side characters die.
I cied while reading this book.
M...more
Pros:
They killed the demonic terroist.
They found a cure for the "fanastic four"s disease.
Cora and Scott became a couple.
Cora find out who her dad is (kind of in a sense).
Owen and Rain gets to "third base and slides home"!
Rains pregnet with Owens child.
Cons:
Owen dies.
Rain might die giving birth to Owens unborn child.
Cora never will find her dad.
Owen Dies!
Other side characters die.
I cied while reading this book.
M...more
What a great read. FIRE WILL FALL was just great fun, although I have to complain a little about it keeping me up too late at night. In fact, the tension was so great at one point that I had to resolve not to read the book too close to bedtime because it was freaking me out.
The story is a follow-up to a previous book --Streams of Babel-- that I haven't read, but which I am definitely going to track down. It's principally about 4 teenagers who are recovering from a poisoning that took place in th...more
The story is a follow-up to a previous book --Streams of Babel-- that I haven't read, but which I am definitely going to track down. It's principally about 4 teenagers who are recovering from a poisoning that took place in th...more
Fire Will Fall is the engrossing sequel to Streams of Babel, a bioterrorism thriller set in New Jersey six months after 9/11. This suspenseful read continues the story of six richly developed teen characters and is filled with interesting discussion material. Each character continues to evolve while coping with the trauma and aftermath of being poisoned. Owen, who was born contemplating the meaning of life, has a spiritual awakening. Convinced that the next life has to be better this one... (cli...more
I didn't expect Streams of Bable to have a sequel, and thus I wasn't sure what to expect when I read this book. In the end, it was all right. I found some of the different plot threads hard to square with one another, and I didn't always find the relationships between the characters believable, or even the characters themselves believable, for that matter, but there were a few characters I really liked, and they made up for it. The end seemed unnecessary to me in several different ways. It could...more
This sequel to Streams of Babel is once again told in the alternating voices of the Trinity Four. These are the four teenagers who drank water poisoned by bioterrorists. They're out of the hospital now, but still in critical health.
Although they are told they are in no danger from the remaining terrorists still at large, they are now housed in a historical mansion owned by the state of New Jersey and guarded by the U.S. Intelligence Coalition. While they cope with the physical and psychological...more
Although they are told they are in no danger from the remaining terrorists still at large, they are now housed in a historical mansion owned by the state of New Jersey and guarded by the U.S. Intelligence Coalition. While they cope with the physical and psychological...more
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Wow. I love this story line. I want to read more, even though I know their story has ended. I was only a little disappointed, mainly because Scott was being a jerk and Cora wouldn't stop crying. I'd like to know what happened next, like what did Rain name her child? and what happens between Scott and Cora? and whatever happened to Tyler and Shahzad? and did Rain's son/daughter have Q3?
I was so engrossed with Scott's and Cora's complicated romance of jerkd...more
Let me start out by saying that I love Carol Plum-Ucci, she's one of my favorite authors. But, despite my common love for her works, I found myself at odds with Fire Will Fall.
What did I like?
I loved the guy characters. They were hilarious, and they had strong character development. I especially loved Shazdad and Tyler; they were my peeps.
I also liked how the book has an anti-abortion message.
What did I dislike?
Pretty much everything else.
The female characters were weak, both in personality and...more
What did I like?
I loved the guy characters. They were hilarious, and they had strong character development. I especially loved Shazdad and Tyler; they were my peeps.
I also liked how the book has an anti-abortion message.
What did I dislike?
Pretty much everything else.
The female characters were weak, both in personality and...more
In this sequel to Streams of Babel, the Trinity Four have been moved to a remote location to keep them
safe. The teens are still suffering after effects of the terrorist attack that killed others. The kids are famous now with their faces all over the television and even in People magazine. So they need to be careful to stay out of sight since the terrorists are still active. They are planning a new attack. I loved the first book so it is hard to live up to that.
safe. The teens are still suffering after effects of the terrorist attack that killed others. The kids are famous now with their faces all over the television and even in People magazine. So they need to be careful to stay out of sight since the terrorists are still active. They are planning a new attack. I loved the first book so it is hard to live up to that.
So happy to revisit the "Trinity Falls Four," along with the two teen hackers, Shahzad and Tyler. This book is set only a few months after the events of the first, and I was right back there immediately, enjoying this bioterrorist horror story from six vantage points. Both books together make for an even more satisfying read than the first one, which I enjoyed in 2009.
Sadly, I didn't know this was a sequel. So I was confused to start the book. The down side, this book in my opinion lacks action. I love books with action. It leaned more on the drama between infected teenagers which made me become disinterested. The upside the book showed a lot of voice and communication. The teenagers work together to capture the bioterrorists. They begin looking online and there challenge only gets harder. In the end I recommend this book to readers who have read the first. L...more
Got an ARC of this at ALA Midwinter. I wasn't the biggest fan of the prequel, Streams of Babel, but this one hit the spot though it was less realistic than the first. Maybe I just found this one more suspenseful and was able to excuse the flaws. And though his role wasn't huge, Tyler Ping may be one of my new favorite literary characters.
I didn't like this book quite as much as Streams of Babel, I think because there wasn't as much action. Streams of Babel kept you on your toes where Fire Will Fall is a little more introspective the there is enough tension and twists to keep you reading.
This story picks up right where book one ended and does of nice job of deepening the characters, especially Cora. I still really liked Shahzad's voice and Tyler is fun too.
This story is almost plausible and I like that Plum-Ucci wrote about a t...more
This story picks up right where book one ended and does of nice job of deepening the characters, especially Cora. I still really liked Shahzad's voice and Tyler is fun too.
This story is almost plausible and I like that Plum-Ucci wrote about a t...more
I really loved this book. I hated that Owen had to die, but I was overjoyed that Carol had Cora and Scott end up together. Carol is such an unusual writer that I couldn't predict what was going to happen, but that also made the book so enjoyable. I really wish she hadn't left such a big cliff hanger at the end. We don't know what is going ti happen to Rain and her baby or if Scott will join USIC. Wish she would give us more info but I don't think she had enough stuff to work with to write a thir...more
I loved this sequel so much, I think I liked it better than the first book. Fire will fall follows the teens as they make the safe house into a home. Of course that becomes a problem when the terrorsits find out where they are and want them all dead. The kids suspect there is someone on the inside spying for them and maybe working towards killing them off, but of course the adults won't hear any of it.. We also revisit the pakistani boy whose name i still forget. But now he has a companion, the...more
Let me first say that I want to be a Biomedical Engineer when I grow up so I was really excited to read this book, I had not read the first book but I figured it would be ok, and I could catch up as I went along. While I was able to understand what was going on for the most part, I was really, really board.
I am not sure whether the first book was more interesting, but this book had too much whining for me, and even though I came to care about the characters, I could not really get into it. Maybe...more
I am not sure whether the first book was more interesting, but this book had too much whining for me, and even though I came to care about the characters, I could not really get into it. Maybe...more
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Carol Plum-Ucci is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci’s most famous work to date is The Body of Christopher Creed, for which she won a Michael L. Printz Award in 2002 and was named a Finalist to the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Describing her subjects as «the most common, timeless, and most heart-felt teenagers,» Plum-Ucci is widely recognized for her use of the South Jersey shore to set sce...more
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