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Adam Malfitano still has nightmares about the night his girlfriend, Mitzi, died. He sees the blood. He sees her in the water. He is a lifeguard, and he can't save her. He wakes up screaming. Even worse, he has begun to see Mitzi while he is awake. He knows it is impossible, but she looks so real. What does she want from him?

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A lot of these are pretty cheesy and predictable, but this was a better one. It was surprisingly deep and dealt with the results of trauma and memory loss. Besides the main character's dickish moves to his girlfriend, the author also delved into psychotic rage of another character. True, the chapters end up on the dramatic cliffhangers, but the ending is satisfying (does he ever tell what he found and what happens next?) and it's well done.
Not one of my favorites.

Adam, a beach lifeguard, feels guilty for the death of his girlfriend last summer. His guilt causes him to have hallucinations and he believes he sees her everywhere. And unfortunately his friends aren't of any help either.

I don't understand what the point of having the two different points of view, Sean and Adam, were. Sean's character did not really add a lot to the story. Was disappointed.
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So we're reading a first person account from crazy Adam, which means that we don't know what's going on half the time because he keeps hallucinating. Sean's not much better, and the whole story is hard to follow. It just got annoying.

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R. L. Stine was born in Columbus Ohio on October 8, 1943. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965. Under the name Jovial Bob Stine, he wrote dozens of joke books and humor books for kids including How to Be Funny, 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol. He also created Bananas, a zany humor magazine which he worked on for ten years. show more His first teen horror novel, Blind Date, was published in 1986 under the name R. L. Stine. His other works include Beach House, Hit and Run, The Babysitter, The Girlfriend, the Goosebumps series, and the Fear Street series. He also wrote an adult novel entitled Superstitious. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
High Tide
Original title
High Tide
Original publication date
1997-06-01
People/Characters
Adam Malfitano; Mitzi; Ian Schultz; Dr. Thall; Sean Cavanna; Leslie Jordan (show all 12); Alyce Serkin; Cindy; Jay; Kathy; Joy Bailey; Raina Foster
Important places
Logan Beach
First words
"Let's go, Adam!"
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And I kissed her again.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Teen, Tween, Horror, Young Adult
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3569 .T545 .H54Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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Reviews
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Languages
Dutch, English
Media
Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
6
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