Boy Who Couldn't Die

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Summary: The Boy Who Couldn't Die
Review: The Boy Who Couldn't Die, by William Sleator, was a great book. It was suspenseful, full of action and romance, as well as a book that you would stay up all night to read. It starts off with the main character, Ken, walking from his house in New York to Cherri Buttercup's, an evil spell caster, house in Queens. He is going to this her house because he saw her ad in the newspaper which said she can take away the risk everyone takes everyday of dieing by making you invulnerable.
After Ken's friend, Roger, died in a plane crash, Ken realized how easy it is for something to go wrong and, so he decides to see Cherri Buttercup. After she makes him invulnerable by taking his soul out of his body. Ken wants to see if it worked so he asks out the girlfriend of the quarterback on the football team. When her boyfriend finds out Ken asked her out, he goes to kill Ken. However, because Ken is invulnerable, he can't hurt him and is embarrassed in front of every kid in the school.
When Ken gets home, his parents tell him that he can pick where they go for vacation this spring break and while looking online for a cool place to go, he finds a site about an island in the Caribbean called St.Calao. The sites say that recently there has been a shark attack there and this makes Ken excited to go there. "What a time to test if I am truly invulnerable and can't be killed," Ken thinks to himself. Ken then finds tickets for a plane and hotel rooms for him and his family.
Once on St.Calao, Ken and his father take lessons on scuba diving. Ken becomes very good friends with one of the instructors, Sabine, who tells him that the drums he hears at night are voodoo ceremonies held by good voodoo priest and there are also bad voodoo priest who study black magic and make people into zombies by saying that they make people invulnerable, just as Cherri Buttercup did to Ken. Ken then realized that Cherri Buttercup was a black magic studying voodoo priest and has made him a zombie and she has control over him at night. Sabine then tells Ken that he must get his soul back or she will always be able to control him at night. Sabine tells Ken that she will help him get his soul back through e-mail.
Ken and Sabine continue to e-mail each other and Sabine tells him what he must do to get his soul back. She tells him that he must find where his soul is held and get it back. Does he get his soul back and stop Cherri Buttercup from controlling him and others or does Cherri Buttercup continue to control people. That's what you must find out for yourself by reading the great book The Boy Who Couldn't Die, by William Sleator. Prepare to stay up all night.

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Summary: Great book
Review: This book was great. The main character ken goes to a sort of phsycic person and she offers him a deal or order for him not to die or feel pain. He would have to give her his soul no matter what the consequences. He accepts and soon realizes he did a terrible mistake. He goes on an adventure to get back what she had taken from him and what she didnt want to give back