Interesting enough a book. What irks me was that how come I never saw this book when I was a pre-teen. Certainly back in the days when I was such a C. Pike book collector (with only a pitiful amount of student's allowance to sustain the bookworm I am), I would've seen this book. Now I can only buy it online, as a second hand book. *sigh*

It does feel good to be able to reminisce and think back to a time when I thought that Pike was the greatest horror writer. Alongside this was the realization that I'm now gravitating towards other book genres. Now I find Pike's writing to be a tad supernatural for my taste.

But then, that has always been his style: elements of the everyday occurrences interspersed with the supernatural, beings from different planes, of revenge and the twist waiting for the reader at the end.

Book Details:

Title Weekend
Author Christopher Pike
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )

This was one of the first books I started reading when I was in 8th grade. After all these years (many, many years), I still have it in my collection. ( )

May 7, 2000
Weekend
Christopher Pike

I recently bought this again, because it was one of my hands-down favorite “teen thriller” books of my younger days. Pike is my favorite teen horror author, and this particular book is my favorite out of all his books.

A group of friends are gathering at an isolated beach house in Mexico, the vacation home of one of the girls, who has a very rich father. No parents, no supervision – just a lot of drinking, pool partying, and sexual play. It has all the components of a titillating teen horror story – the good girl who tells the story, the slutty, sexy girl who can only be first cousin to a barracuda (and whose house it is), and the mysterious, sad figure of her younger sister, who is in permanent kidney failure from having been poisoned the year before by one of their friends. Everyone there knows it was one of them who spiked Robin’s drink with insect poison, and they’re all just as sure that it was by accident, and someone else was meant to die that day, since Robin is a sweet, harmless, everybody-loves-her girl that nobody would want to harm. Permanently crippled and on dialysis, she’s now slowly dying.
The kids are stranded at this Acapulco paradise when their mode of transportation mysteriously explodes, and it soon becomes clear that somebody wants revenge and answers.

I just loved this book when I first read it, and years later as an adult I still get a great kick out of it. Pike – and this book in particular – was one of my many inspirations for becoming a writer (though I’ve mostly gotten over the desire to write teen horror. Not totally, but mostly…) ( )

One of my first real mystery-suspense books, this is the book that got me hooked. ( )

Awesome murder mystery. Sort of. ( )