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blobvis's review
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
To be honest it was better than i expected
I picked this book up because it seemed easy to read and it was
The only thing that really bugged me was the "I love you"s between two characters that just met lmao
And I had to remind myself that it was published in 1990
I picked this book up because it seemed easy to read and it was
The only thing that really bugged me was the "I love you"s between two characters that just met lmao
And I had to remind myself that it was published in 1990
vonderbash's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
stayceee24's review against another edition
5.0
As with all of the Pike books. My adult guilty pleasure, many copies have been brought from the sheer amount of times they've been read. Fantastic
acanthae's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.25
paulabrandon's review against another edition
4.0
I may have to rethink my plan to read all the Christopher Pike books that will comprise the TV adaptation of The Midnight Club. They keep making me cry!
Julia Florence considers herself a witch. Her mother was a witch also, and she had special healing powers, which she has passed on to Julia. Her mother recently passed away. Julia also has visions. She can see where other people are and what they are doing. And when she gazes into a pond that has moonlight shining on it, she can see into the future, something her mother had always warned her against doing.
When Julia inadvertently does this, she sees a boy getting shot and dying in her arms. She doesn't know who the boy is. Yet. But hours later when she attends a football game, she discovers that the boy is Jim Kovic, and he is the new boyfriend of her best friend, Amy. Julia tries desperately to stop the future from coming true, but that just brings about more horrible consequences. (As is usually the case in this genre!)
While this was a product of it's time, such as Scott and Randy's rape culture attitude and the girls' acceptance of it, this was an effective emotional thriller. It doesn't have the same gut-wrenching emotional punch that The Midnight Club, but it still left my teary-eyed. Pike really knows how to write a conversation between characters that can get give your tear ducts a good workout! Also, unlike The Midnight Club, Witch remembers that it's also a thriller, with solid suspense as Julia's situation gets continually and increasingly out of control, and Julia herself becomes quite the bad-ass heroine.
Emotional, suspenseful, memorable, enjoyable. I'm looking more and more forward to seeing Netflix's The Midnight Club, of which this book will comprise one of the episodes.
Julia Florence considers herself a witch. Her mother was a witch also, and she had special healing powers, which she has passed on to Julia. Her mother recently passed away. Julia also has visions. She can see where other people are and what they are doing. And when she gazes into a pond that has moonlight shining on it, she can see into the future, something her mother had always warned her against doing.
When Julia inadvertently does this, she sees a boy getting shot and dying in her arms. She doesn't know who the boy is. Yet. But hours later when she attends a football game, she discovers that the boy is Jim Kovic, and he is the new boyfriend of her best friend, Amy. Julia tries desperately to stop the future from coming true, but that just brings about more horrible consequences. (As is usually the case in this genre!)
While this was a product of it's time, such as Scott and Randy's rape culture attitude and the girls' acceptance of it, this was an effective emotional thriller. It doesn't have the same gut-wrenching emotional punch that The Midnight Club, but it still left my teary-eyed. Pike really knows how to write a conversation between characters that can get give your tear ducts a good workout! Also, unlike The Midnight Club, Witch remembers that it's also a thriller, with solid suspense as Julia's situation gets continually and increasingly out of control, and Julia herself becomes quite the bad-ass heroine.
Emotional, suspenseful, memorable, enjoyable. I'm looking more and more forward to seeing Netflix's The Midnight Club, of which this book will comprise one of the episodes.
celtic_oracle's review against another edition
2.0
First read in 1991. Second star is for my younger self, who liked this a whole lot better than grown-up me.
doritobabe's review against another edition
1.0
I absolutely hated this book in every. sorry. way.
It was pro-sexual assault culture, the romance completely bizarre, the whole "witch" thing was unresearched and not even a central plot to this book, all of the characters are horrible, several times in the book I was so shocked at how poorly the plot was conceived and enforced... Ugh. I have Literally never read a worse novel.
It was pro-sexual assault culture, the romance completely bizarre, the whole "witch" thing was unresearched and not even a central plot to this book, all of the characters are horrible, several times in the book I was so shocked at how poorly the plot was conceived and enforced... Ugh. I have Literally never read a worse novel.
theycallmev's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
j_olip's review against another edition
1.0
1990's C.Pike - What a problematic pulp fiction rollercoaster lol
littlelotto's review against another edition
1.0
An old favorite of mine in middleschool. After several months of searching, found it for a dollar!
I was a stupid kid. This book is terrible.
I was a stupid kid. This book is terrible.