Before there were True Crime podcasts, there were teen horror literary giants Christopher Pike and RL Stine.
If you never thought your friends were holding secret, murderous long-term grudges against you before and have been low-key plotting your painful, humiliating death, you will once you read Weekend. (“Come out to my dad’s remote, luxurious Mexican resort that has a SOUNDPROOF room, it’ll be hilar!”)
Don’t forget the Final Friends Trilogy - it’s high school grad! The time for parties, getting into your parent’s booze, taking a sexy bath with your bf on a cruise ship (?) - and apparently, being worried about some rando murdering your friends. A story so filled with intrigue and deep character development it needed a three book arc to complete.
Spellbound reminds us that we really needed to be more thorough in our research before dating someone new.
Jason’s girlfriend was found with HER SKULL CRUSHED and he, the only witness (convenient) blamed it on a bear? Somehow, he has a new girlfriend in 2 weeks (really girl?) and then a bunch of other kids and the new ‘foreign exchange student from Africa*’ decide to go investigate what happened? This sounds like it has a happy ending. 👌🏻
*Really dude? Africa’s a big place, methinks you just wanted a reasonable excuse to connect one of these high school kids to a shaman? Just say Madagascar or Gabon or something better than ‘Africa’.
Finally, we have The Immortal, a true story about why you shouldn’t steal sacred treasures from ancient civilizations - or anywhere (This should probably be subtitled Karma for Greedy Tourists).
Anyway, Josie and her Pops go on a Greek vacay and girlfriend STEALS a goddess statue from the ‘sacred island of Delos’. Then she gets all upset because bad s#$t starts happening because ‘The Goddess’ intends to unalive her and take over her modern American mortal life (I feel like this will be a more horrible outcome for The Goddess - my advice: Stay dead in ancient Greece lady, you probably don’t want to see what the world has become.)
Before there were True Crime podcasts, there were teen horror literary giants Christopher Pike and RL Stine.
If you never thought your friends were holding secret, murderous long-term grudges against you before and have been low-key plotting your painful, humiliating death, you will once you read Weekend. (“Come out to my dad’s remote, luxurious Mexican resort that has a SOUNDPROOF room, it’ll be hilar!”)
Don’t forget the Final Friends Trilogy - it’s high school grad! The time for parties, getting into your parent’s booze, taking a sexy bath with your bf on a cruise ship (?) - and apparently, being worried about some rando murdering your friends. A story so filled with intrigue and deep character development it needed a three book arc to complete.
Spellbound reminds us that we really needed to be more thorough in our research before dating someone new.
Jason’s girlfriend was found with HER SKULL CRUSHED and he, the only witness (convenient) blamed it on a bear? Somehow, he has a new girlfriend in 2 weeks (really girl?) and then a bunch of other kids and the new ‘foreign exchange student from Africa*’ decide to go investigate what happened? This sounds like it has a happy ending. 👌🏻
*Really dude? Africa’s a big place, methinks you just wanted a reasonable excuse to connect one of these high school kids to a shaman? Just say Madagascar or Gabon or something better than ‘Africa’.
Finally, we have The Immortal, a true story about why you shouldn’t steal sacred treasures from ancient civilizations - or anywhere (This should probably be subtitled Karma for Greedy Tourists).
Anyway, Josie and her Pops go on a Greek vacay and girlfriend STEALS a goddess statue from the ‘sacred island of Delos’. Then she gets all upset because bad s#$t starts happening because ‘The Goddess’ intends to unalive her and take over her modern American mortal life (I feel like this will be a more horrible outcome for The Goddess - my advice: Stay dead in ancient Greece lady, you probably don’t want to see what the world has become.)
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