Instead of such enriching narratives about racial intolerance and healing, or dystopian societies, or murder mystery puzzles I was actually reading a book about an adolescent girl whose reputation is ruined when she writes a sexual fantasy in her journal as fact, she then fakes her death on a school trip (in order to salvage her virtue?) and the body count mounts. I read "Gimme a Kiss" at an age when I should have been reading "The Westing Game" or "The Giver" or that book about the racist boy who is temporarily blinded when the boat he is on is torpedoed and he has to survive on a lifeboat and eventually an island with an elderly Black man. Stine, the plots of all his young-adult novels are spectacularly convoluted and sublimely trashy. Christopher Pike was the Southern Californian, New Age, Crystal gazing version of R.
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