I wouldn't recommend the Patman book. It's cringey because during the sections dealing with the cowboy Patman (forgot his name) the author relies on too many Western cliches (down to the dialogue). As for the others: Mystery Date is OK,and it's one of the few "contemporary" SV books (Olivia dates Ken anonymously via an Internet (AOL? It's been a long time) chat room) Bks # 141-143 + the Earthquake series:Cringey,but not terribly so.
Only other one I've read is the Wakefield Legacy book,which deals with Ned's side of the family. It's 8/10,primarily for the descriptions of SoCal and Ned's father's personality.
This was one of my favorite Christopher Pike books when I was younger. The whole ground glass in the hamburger thing really freaked me out and I was always eyeing the person who made my hamburgers suspiciously. Then I read some article in college about how ground glass actually can’t kill you because your body just digests it and pushes it out. It kind of made me a little pissed off at Pike… Josie and Helen are best friends, but in that high school way, where they actually don’t really like each other. Helen’s family is kind of poor, but that didn’t stop them from sending her to Greece the summer before. Now they’re going back, thanks to Josie’s dad. He’s a screenwriter and traveling with his stuckup, prissy girlfriend Silk. The book flashes back to two women and I bet you know where this is going. Sryope and Phthia were two women living during ancient times. Phthia was obsessed with a guy who Sryope secretly loved. She made him indebted to her and then got bored and ran off with other
This post is getting TONS of attention due to the MTV television show. For those who recently found my blog, please keep in mind that this review is nearly two years old. I'll comment when you comment, but I've read so many books since then that this one isn't very fresh in my mind. Part One: Eye Candy opens with our unknown killer out on a date with a girl named Alesha who he met through a dating website. Every time she asks him a question, he responds and thinks to himself how he's lying to her. After coffee, they decide to grab dinner, but he can't help looking at her man hands, which he calls Hulk hands, and how she laughs just like his mom. They head back to her apartment, and she immediately throws herself at him. They kiss a little and he then proceeds to choke her to death in her apartment. As if that wasn't enough, he takes a knife from her kitchen and cuts off each of her fingers, thinking they feel like asparagus. The killer then reveals
I’ve read this book a few times lately and every time, go into it thinking that I don’t really like it, but then I remember that I do. Maybe because there aren’t any sci-fi elements or aliens in it! Well there are alien like things, but not like in his later books. Angela is a fairly new kid at school, who somehow gets invited to a party with all the popular kids. Her best friend Mary walks into the party, brandishing a shotgun. Without saying a word, she blows away football player Todd and cheerleader Kathy. Five seconds later, she points the gun at her own boyfriend Jim. Angela stops her by screaming and Mary retaliates by kicking her in the face. Jim, who’s basically a big pussy, runs off into the woods, with Mary hot on his tale. Angela follows and runs into Lieutenant Nguyen, who listens to what she says and then goes after Mary. Angela wanders into the woods and runs into Jim. Mary pops up and tells them that Jim “isn’t human” and nearly kills him, before Nguyen stops her. Nguyen
I wouldn't recommend the Patman book. It's cringey because during the sections dealing with the cowboy Patman (forgot his name) the author relies on too many Western cliches (down to the dialogue). As for the others:
ReplyDeleteMystery Date is OK,and it's one of the few "contemporary" SV books (Olivia dates Ken anonymously via an Internet (AOL? It's been a long time) chat room)
Bks # 141-143 + the Earthquake series:Cringey,but not terribly so.
Only other one I've read is the Wakefield Legacy book,which deals with Ned's side of the family. It's 8/10,primarily for the descriptions of SoCal and Ned's father's personality.