Thrills, twists and excitement all in about two hours! (Christopher Pike in general)

Member Name: jekyllandhyde

Product:	Christopher Pike in general
Date:	22/03/01 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: Pike always has original stories to tell with interesting characters

Disadvantages: It's always over so quickly!

Christopher is in my opinion an excellent writer.

I first started reading his books when I was about 16 and quickly ploughed through many of his titles. His books are generally horror thrillers for teenagers. Now, i am no longer a teenager but find that I am still re-reading his books. They are the perfect read when you want something heavier than a magazine but not so heavy as an indepth novel.

Favourite titles of mine include:The Last Vampire (this has developed into a series of books) as has Remember Me which is a brilliant read. There is usually something of the supernatural in Pike's books, for example Witch tells about a young woman who has discovered that she has hindsight of terrible situations. The Road to Nowhere is an interesting travel book with three main characters who tell their stories all night with a superb twist at the end.

Something that I appreciate about Pike's work is that all of his books seem to have some sort of twist at the end, and never a predictable one. All the books are very original though they ususally feature a key group of adolescents in some sort of scenario which turns life threatening.

The Midnight Club is one of the exceptions to this rule, Pike explores notions of death following a froup of teenagers at a hospice who know that they are going to die from various illnesses but we still want to know their stories.

Perhaps the real reason that it takes me such a short time for me to read each of these books is because once I've started I can't put it down until the end!

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