Slumber Party

This was the first Christopher Pike book I read and I loved it! Pike keeps you guessing and you'll never guess "whodunnit". It was kind of weird that my name was used in Slumber Party but I'm glad I read it. I would truly recommend this book for children 12 years and up. Other Pike books that I recommend are "Spellbound", "Die Softly", "Bury Me Deep", "Witch", and The Last Vampire series.

This book surprised me! It wasn't like others I've read by Christopher Pike. It is about how a girl named Lara who goes on a skiing vacation with her friends to a house owned by one of the girl's family. In the story Lara runs into a lot of bad luck and most of the incidents seem to be related to fire. Lara gets spooked because in her childhood she and her friends had a slumber party. During the slumber party, Nell, the girl who's family owns the cabin, had to bring her little sister Nicole and she ended up dying from fire. Lara thought Nicole had come back to haunt her because she died caught on fire and Lara tried to put her out by dumping brandy on her. A couple minutes later she blew up. At the cabin weird things happen. A snowman melts that is in shade and it is freezing out side. Dana suddenly disappears and one of her skis is found on the path. Mindy's arm suddenly catches on fire and her arm wasn't touching any fire. To top it all off the so-called police man that parks their car for them may not even be a police man but a car theif. This book was very unpredictable!

I have read many books by Christopher Pike, and this is one of the best. "Slumber Party" was very well written and you can tell that it took a while to write this story. There were many times I wanted to look at the back of the book because I couldnt take the suspense any more and I wanted to know who was the one doing everything. If you love mystery books with alot of suspense... this is a great book for you.