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Summary: Deeply Powerful and Intense
Review: "The Fires" is a very complex book about the troubled state of main character Ella and her downward spirl to pyromania. She sets fires to release herself, and in this novel you take this very emotional and thought provoking journey with her. It's a draining book that can take a lot out of you...but, if you just keep focused it's well worth your time. I found it to be one I had to take my time with and really think about. This isn't a easy nor fast read....it's one to spend sometime on. BUT, very good.
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Summary: Excellent Book!!
Review: "The Fires" is a very complex book about the troubled state of main character Ella and her downward spirl to pyromania. She sets fires to release herself, and in this novel you take this very emotional and thought provoking journey with her. It's a draining book that can take a lot out of you...but, if you just keep focused it's well worth your time. I found it to be one I had to take my time with and really think about. This isn't a easy nor fast read....it's one to spend sometime on. BUT, very good.
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Summary: The Fire in the Writing
Review: Here's a story where every word counts, where metaphor is as vivid as the flame of a match, and the story line as searing as a destructive fire. The main character is well-sketched in slight but effective description. The theme of "fires" is well-thread throughout the story. In some of the minor characters there is less development, but it plays out fine. This is a haunting story of a girl who sometimes feels as thin as smoke and sometimes as large as a raging inferno.
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Summary: Excellent Book!!
Review: I was looking in the book store for books on sale, and I noticed this book on the rack. It is exactly the type of book I like to read. This exciting story of Ella, and how she has an obsession with fire, is a great story to read. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, with all its twists and turns!! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in it.
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Summary: The Fires, Rene Steinke
Review: Insightful. Has vision and perception that disregard boundaries of the conventional mind (Ie, an artist, not just a technician). Wonderful language. Well developed story, unraveled at just the right pace.
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Summary: Sexy and disturbing
Review: Rene Steinke has written a novel filled with pyromania and promiscuity. The story is about Ella, a young woman controlled by an urge to act out her desires. Ella, unlike many women, does not want to practice self-control; she pushes way beyond the levels she has attained over the years. This is a very sexy and disturbing novel. The language is beautiful; Rene is a great writer. A nice read!
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Summary: The book, a great find. The author, magnificent!
Review: Rene? Are you out there? I just read "The Fires" and I have to say that you are a very gifted lady and i would be thrilled to be a student of your prose and creative writing class. Could I stay after school to involve myself deeper into your genius and masterful technique of metaphor useage? Ella is the epitiomy of many a youth feeling the pangs of loneliness, insecurities and family breakup.This book needs national exposure, support from health institutions and publicity! Rene, contact me, I want to congratulate you personally!
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Summary: (3.5 stars) ...Turbulent and intense...
Review: This author takes a volatile subject and turns it into a powerful message. Sensing that her life has spun out of control, the promiscious Ella finds her fragile sense of self defined by the unpredictable and dangerous rush of setting fires. As a child, Ella found herself helpless, powerless, drawn into the roar of cleansing flames. As a young woman, Ella's personal disintegration has led to drunken laisons with strangers, further shredding her minimal self-worth. Surrounded by family secrets, covered with burn scars, Ella could be a pathetic creature in lesser hands. But this Ella is a survivor, and Steinke gives her the courage to confront her life. The inner scars are what drive Ella; she can live with those that map her flesh. It takes consummate skill to propel a story through the stages of renewal and redemption, without resorting to facile techniques. This writer, in lyrical and visual prose, creates a heroine worthy of notice, deserving of respect.
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Summary: A disturbing tale of a young woman unraveling.
Review: This novel is my great new find!!! I almost wish I could keep this book to myself because I loved it so much. To use an old cliche', you cannot put it down. That being said, I wish Oprah would put it on her show so others can feel what I felt for Ella the main character. This story is heartwarming and sad at the same time. Not since I read ORDINARY PEOPLE or CATCHER IN THE RYE have I felt so connected to a character.
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