by Neal Shusterman
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Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom carnival that traps its customers forever.In order to escape, Blake must survive seven deadly rides by dawn, each of which represents a deep, personal fear -- from a carousel of stampeding animals to a hall of mirrors that changes people into their deformed reflections. Blake ultimately has to face up to a horrible secret from his own past to save himself and his brother -- that is, if the carnival doesn't claim their souls first!
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 From a teacher's perspective, 2007-09-09
As a reading teacher, I am always looking for new and exciting young adult literature for my students. While "Full Tilt" may not be a new book, it is certainly an exiting book that I have difficulty keep in my class library. Every year, students argue over who gets to check out the book first. One student said, "Any book that begins with, 'It all started the night we died...' has to be good!" . Mr. Shusterman's book is what contemporary Y.A. literature needs to be. It is intelligent, fast paced, exciting, and a topic kids want to read about. If you are looking for a book that just about any teen will enjoy reading, look no firther!
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
 no tilt at all, 2007-03-13
This book absoulutley sucked. If you bought it it would be a waste of money. The beginning is hard to understand the middle is slow and the ending is absoulutley pointless. This book is a waste of paper, your money and your time. All in all if you bought this book you should check into a mental home.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Confronting Fears, 2007-02-20
Blake is sixteen and incredibly responsible. His room is always clean, he is an excellent driver and he has already been accepted early into Columbia University. He will be able to skip his senior year of high school to start there. His brother Quinn is the exact opposite. At thirteen he already has metal earrings all over his face. He is irresponsible, messy and always looking for a thrill. After Blake's experience as a seven-year-old on a bus that spun out of control, Blake has had enough thrills.
One day at an amusement park with two of his friends and Quinn, Blake is given a card by the girl running one of the booths. The card has an address on it and a weird symbol. Supposedly this place is a super exclusive amusement park, open only at night, from midnight until dawn. It seems creepy and Blake doesn't really like amusement parks, anyway, so he disregards the card. Later, though, after a fight, Quinn falls into what looks like a coma. Blake is pretty sure some part of his consciousness has escaped to this amusement park, though, and he resolves to go and bring his brother back.
Thus begins a nightmare like no other Blake could have imagined. When he enters the gate of the park, he is told that he will have to ride seven rides by dawn to get out. Otherwise, he will be stuck in this place forever. The rides start off as something ordinary, such as bumper cars, but then as he rides they change into something more real and horrifying. Blake is ending up having to face all of his worst fears. Will he be able to get through and bring his brother safely home?
I loved the concept of this book! The idea of amusement park rides that force people to confront their fears is a great one, and I liked the leadup to what actually happened on the bus, which was obviously a traumatic event for Blake. I liked that Blake's devotion to his brother allowed him to face his weaknesses and fears over and over.
I didn't like the characters of Maggie and Russ. They didn't really add anything to the story and they weren't strong enough characters to really make a difference. I would have liked it better if the book was just the story of the two brothers.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 "No Tilt!" - a collection of various junior high class reviews, 2007-02-08
1. Full Tilt was way too predictable. The beginning started off weird and the ending was boring and empty. The best part of the book was the middle because it was exciting, yet still only decent.
2. The book was suspenseful and thrilling throughout every chapter. The author gave us a vivid description to help us visualize the ride.
3. We thought this book was very suspenseful but it got slow toward the end which was disappointing.
4. We thought this book was a page-turner that kept us on the edge of our seats throughout each chapter.
5. Full Tilt was a fast-paced novel that successfully created alot of suspense.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Full Tilt, 2006-10-06
Blake, who has just turned 16, considers himself the man of the house taking care of his brother, Quinn, and his mother. He takes his brother and his 2 friends, Russ and Maggie, to Six Flags and they stay there for a long period of time and near the end of the day Blake meets a woman named Cassandra and she gives him an invitation to a carnival that is in a deserted part of the town. When Blake gets home, his mother brought home another boyfriend, the third one that month, and he was upset about it and so he went to his room and threw the invitation on his desk. When he woke up, he found his brother lying in the living room with the invitation at his side. His brother looked as if he had passed out. They called an ambulance, but the paramedics found nothing wrong with him and yet he would still not wake up.
As it turns out, Quinn had really taken the invitation and had gone to the carnival across town and was trapped in a mysterious "dream world." To try and figure out what had happened to his little brother, Blake came up with a plan. He talked with Russ and Maggie and they decided to go to the carnival, since they had seen the invitation next to Quinn in the living room. The three of them arrived at the carnival and asked the man if he would let them in, even though he did not have his invitation since his brother took it. The man commented that they were expecting him. Russ and Maggie went inside the carnival with him and they were all looking for Quinn together.
There ended up being rules to the carnival where they must ride seven deadly rides before dawn. If they did not survive the deadly rides, then their souls would be trapped there forever. The rides included a high-speed real car bumper car race, for example. There is another ride called Noah's Ark where they were riding a wooden ship during a tsunami. All of these deadly rides were as if they were truly real terrible situations. Maggie and Russ were in a maze and they got lost inside the maze. Blake was able to get out and beat the rest of the rides until the last ride.
The last and final ride was a real life experience for Blake. When Blake was in elementary school, he had suffered a very traumatic situation. While riding in a school bus, a car pulled along side them and pushed the bus off the side of the cliff. Only half of the bus was still on the cliff and he was unable to open the emergency exit door to free himself from the bus. After struggling with the door for quite some time, he was finally able to open it as the bus began to teeter and fall. He ultimately was the only one who was able to escape from the bus and the only survivor. After all these years later, the lady that had given Blake the invitation to the carnival was the driver of the car that had knocked the bus off the cliff. She had been seeking revenge after all of these years and had been following Blake everywhere he had gone. So, she invited him to this carnival to ensure this time that he died just like the other children had. Her plan failed and on the last ride, she and Blake made a wager that if Blake was able to survive reliving his childhood experience again, she would kill herself and would free all of the souls she had taken and that would be the end of the carnival. If Blake were to "die" on the last, then he would truly be dead forever in real life.
Blake survived the last ride with the same results as real life again. True to her word, Cassandra killed herself and freed all of the souls she had taken. Quinn, Russ and Maggie got their souls back and they were back to normal. All of them, as well as Blake, ended up being friends forever. Even though they had gone through this strange ordeal, no one believed what had happened to them.
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