Scavenger Hunt
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School was almost over. A secretive club on campus had organized a scavenger hunt for the entire senior class. In small groups, and with the help of cleverly planted clues, the kids are led throughout the city, and then deep into the nighttime desert. The sponsoring club has promised a wonderful prize for the first group to reach the goal of the hunt.
But for Carl Timmons, a troubled young man who has recently lost his best friend, the hunt will become a nightmare. Led astray by his love for a strangely beautiful girl, he will wander far from the others, and back into a haunted past, where the line between the living and the dead is blurred and broken.
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whispers I never read any Christopher Pike books in the 90s and I am here to tell you that this one, at least, does not read well for a non-nostalgic 20-something.
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This novel read like one of those classic old 80's young-adult horror movies. The characters are flawed (which is not a bad thing) but the main antagonists could have used a bit more depth. As for the plot itself, it kept me engaged throughout and felt rather nostalgic to me even though this was the first Christopher Pike book i've read. That by itself caught me pleasantly off gaurd enough that I was willing to increase my otherwise 3-star review to 4.
I didn't love this one, but I didn't hate it either!
Here are my notes:
This image, “...the insects and the weather had gotten to him by the time a ranger stumbled across his fleshless finger, pointing through the sun-baked mud at the blazing sky” (pg 16)
She was a big brunette, on the gray side of forty. (pg 67)
Christopher Pike meets H.P. Lovecraft
The ridiculous amount of planning that went into the creation and running of this scavenger hunt and no one thought to pack shovels?
I'm confused as to how the land lizards relate to the Lizard Ancients. Is that what's in the pool? What's up with the acid?
Is there a sequel?
