Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
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Book Reviews of Beyond the Chocolate War
Book Review: It goes Beyond Chocolate
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first read The Chocolate War, I felt very interested to read Beyond The Chocollate War. I chose this book because I read The Chocolate War, and I thought it was very interesting. Therefore I was eager to finish and start the sequel. Yet I was disappointed in it. This book is about how Jerry Renault gets into a fight with Emile Janza, and how he goes to the hospital to heal. His friend the "Goober" gets involved with this "Vigil" thing, and starts to hate them even more for what they did to Jerry. The "Vigil's" yet are on another goal to do something to Obie, Archie's used to be right hand man. Also, the "Goober" goes and visits Jerry and feels bad that he didn't do anything to stop it. What else happend in this book is that Obie stands up to Archie and Archie gets a new person to keep track of the assignments and other things.
What I didn't like about this book is that they didn't talk about Jerry Renault much. A little bit of this book was given to him. Yet last time Jerry was the main character. In that case, it does not make any sense to me because the "Vigils" go unpunished and Jerry is still hurting. Also, the "Vigils" are still giving "assignments" out to other people. Therefore nothing is really solved in this book. If I had to give a better mark to The Chocolate War, or Beyond The Chocolate War, I'd definitely choose The Chocolate War. Not only does it express what happens and gives everything in detail, Beyond The Chocolate War doesn't even explain what happend to Jerry much.
Book Review: Could have been worse
Summary: 3 Stars
This book was not nearly as good as the previous one, Beyond the Chocolate War. I kept reading it, hoping it would get better, thinking it had to get better, but it never did. It seems like Cormier is trying to say that in the end the evil side is going to win anyway, so there's no point in even trying to beat them. I felt so confused and wondered what happened to people when the book ended. I needed a whole lot more closure. Were Jerry and Goober still friends or did they just ditch each other? Was Archie really evil or was there something else behind his plots? I'm just confused and disappointed in the novel. If you liked the first one, don't ruin it by reading this one.Book Review: A Whole Different Book
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is not what I expected.It had many problems.First off the first book;s main character is barely recognized in this one.Plus its almost completely different from the first one.Even though its filled with more action than the last one i would not recommend this book to many people.Book Review: Unnecessary sequel
Summary: 2 Stars
This book, obviously the sequel to The Chocolate War, serves only to tie up the first book's loose ends and let the reader know that life at Trinity School, which is already miserable, will get even worse. (Megan Dimmerling's review claims that good wins in this book; that's not true.) It's just a sequel, not the horrifying masterpiece of sick nihilism that The Chocolate War is.