Weekend

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Summary: Edggie, Capturing, and Mysterious
Review: A must read! In this book 9 friends go on a vacation in Mexico but once they are there it ends up to be a nighmare where they have to relive a horror to find out the truth about who poisoned one of their friends,Robin, who is about to die. You really have to read this book! Its my personal favorite and ever since I read it Ive been addicted to Pikes novels!

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Summary: Excellent book one of the best.
Review: After reading Slumber Party first, I was itching to see another story similar to it. I saw "Weekend" and thought this is it. I read it non-stop and although I was only 12 at the time it was still the best book. At the end I could not sit still because it scared me so much. I paced and walked all over the house while finishing it. It was truly suspenseful and a true thriller to me. After a year I bought it, having to read it again. I hope to see yet another like it or possibly a sequel to this fabulous book. It was scary yet had a good ending. It was, in short, some of his best work

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Summary: A mysterious thriller that pulls you into its twisted plot.
Review: Being the first time for me to read a Christopher Pike book I found Weekend to be a mysterious thriller that I just could not put down. Pike created a plot that pulled me into the story. I felt as if I was one of the characters going through the same deadly experience

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Summary: Deserves more than JUST 5 STARS.
Review: Christopher Pike pulls you into the world where a girl was poisoned by a friend. You are feeling for her the whole time. The main character was so real and such a great person. Pike does another AMAZING job. Read it, its great.

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Summary: "By Sunday they were just trying to stay alive."
Review: Eight Hoover High seniors (Shani Tucker, one of the main characters; Park Jacomini, another protagonist; Kerry Ladd, Angie Houston, Sol Celaya, Lena Carlton, Bert Billings, and Flynn Powers) all make plans to travel down the California coast to Mexico and spend the weekend in Lena and her sister's large family vacation home. Residing in the mansion is Robin Carlton, once an active teenager and their close friend, but now a shut-in. She is slowly dying from permanent kidney damage that resulted from her "accidentally" ingesting a large amount of insecticide at a party one year ago. And, to this day, someone hasn't forgotten the incident, because soon all nine teens are stranded in the house when their transportation is destroyed in an explosion--which kills one of the teen's inside the van--and the phone lines are cut.

Everyone seems to have a secret about that night at the party, including Flynn (aka Michael Ryan Richardson), who wasn't even there but has shady motives for tagging along with the group in Mexico. For me, it was pretty easy to guess Flynn's real identity, but I won't give anything away. It's worth finding out on your own. One drawback to the book (in my opinion) was the shaman's story about Snake, Eagle, Dove, and Raven, which was a bit unnecessary and silly, though it did foreshadow events scheduled to happen later on in the book.

Although "Weekend" isn't my favorite Pike book, it is one of the more memorable books I've read by him, particularly because of the Mexican setting ("Don't drink the water!") and the beginning scene where Lena is trimming cacti in a bikini, of all things. It's definitely worth reading if you're into Scholastic YA Thrillers, and especially if you're a Christopher Pike fan.

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Summary: Cool Ending
Review: Even though this might not be the best book written by Christopher Pike, I still rate it 5 stars cuz it's still very very good. I love the characters like Flynn(Michael) and Shani. And I think the ending was pretty good. So, I recommend you all to read this book.

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Summary: Not Pike's usual sci-fi/horror but still good
Review: I bought this book, started it, put it down, then picked it up again. I am sooo glad I gave it a second chance. Since then I've reread it dozens of times.

The story is this; just a week or so shy of graduating, a group of high school seniors drive down to Mexico to spend the weekend with two of their friends. But everything is not as picture-perfect as they seem. There's Robin and Lena (I think that's her name) Carlton, who were adopted. But Robin is sick; someone spiked her beer at a party in November with insectide. Now she fights for her life, while everyone wonders who did it. And, lo and behold, the people at the house are the same people who were there that fateful night whe Robin drank the poison. There's Shani, Robin's best friend, our main character. Park, Robin's ex-boyfriend, who regrets breaking up with her. Angie, Park's new girlfriend, is highly suspicious, but no one believes she would actually do that. Kerry, Lena's worst enemy, and no wonder. Lena supposedly replaced Kerry's dance pants with papers ones, and there was an inevidable rip. There's Sol, Lena's boyfriend, Kerry's ex, who had a violent past. Happy-go-lucky Bert, who everyone beleived dead after an explosion in the garage. Then Flynn, the only person who couldn't have been there at Robin's poisoning, because he was in England at the time. But still Shani finds him suspicious of something, but what? The culprit, as well as some other secrets are revealed in this book, which is something you should definitely read.

Also, to the parent who though the book didn't teach "good moral values". Well, what do you expect from a horror novel? Those of us familiar to Pike's writing expect the casual sexual parts; they don't affect the story at all. And besides, it isn't obscene, and it isn't graphic sexual detail. It's the emotions a lot of teens go through; thoughts and fantasies.

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Summary: eh, it was ok
Review: i have to agree wtih the reviewer who said Pike's earlier works sucked, cuz it's true. his books verged on terrible. i'm not sure when the whole Final Friends series was written but it was HORRIBLE. IF ANY OF YOU HAVE NOT READ IT, DO NOT READ IT! save yourself the trouble & go read his Remember Me series! that one was nice. or any of his later stuff, at least late 80s early 90s. anyway, i digress. Weekend is a decent book in that it is an intriguing Christopher Pike plot in that you can you just plow through the book without putting it down. but the essential storyline, while vaguely interesting, isn't exactly edge of your seat material. maybe it's cuz i've read so much of his stuff throughout my adolescense and i now verge at the end of adolesence and therefore am so familiar with his plotlines, that i can now read through his plotlines a lot more easily. Meaning, i already guessed half of the book's outcome within the first few chapters. but for those of you who are like, 12 yrs old and just beginning with Christopher Pike, i'm sure you'll like Weekend well enough. it's certainly not as good as his later works, but it's a decent read compared to the other stuff that's out there.

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Summary: I LIKED IT!
Review: I personally thought it was a really good book. The beginning was kind of boring though. So the first time i read it i had borrowed it from my friend and she told me where it started to get good. But i liked it alot so i bought it and read the beginning. My favorite characters are Sol and Shani. I couldn't stand Lena and Kerry and Bert.

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Summary: This was amazing!
Review: I read this a rather long time a go to now be reviewing it, but I remember it well. Now, I think this was amazing because of the characterization. Pike wrote a book with the most amazing cast. He has such a way of writing abou very real character who talk like teens and about things teens talk about. This was just so amazing, and it was so creative. The story was so well done and had many twists and turns. Christopher Pike has such a great talent. I don't like all the ghosts and spirits he usually writes about, and this one didn't have any of those, so it showa that he has multiples types of writing which is very impressive.