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Bury Me Deep
Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesome start. The boy beside her on the plane chokes and dies. Jean tries to push the incident out of her mind when she arrives on the island, but find it impossible.
Part of the reason is because Mike keeps coming back to her in dreams. Horrible dreams filled with blood.
Two of Jean's friends are awaiting her in Hawaii—Mandy and Michele. They have already made friends with two young men who teach scuba diving at the hotel—Dave and Johnny. Jean and Johnny quickly become friends. But there are problems in paradise. Besides Jean's continuing nightmares, Dave and Johnny have recently lost a partner in the ocean. No one knows how he died. No one can find his body. But then Jean finds Mike's body. It isn't where it's supposed to be and seems to have some life in it.
Part of the reason is because Mike keeps coming back to her in dreams. Horrible dreams filled with blood.
Two of Jean's friends are awaiting her in Hawaii—Mandy and Michele. They have already made friends with two young men who teach scuba diving at the hotel—Dave and Johnny. Jean and Johnny quickly become friends. But there are problems in paradise. Besides Jean's continuing nightmares, Dave and Johnny have recently lost a partner in the ocean. No one knows how he died. No one can find his body. But then Jean finds Mike's body. It isn't where it's supposed to be and seems to have some life in it.
211 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1991
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Christopher Pike
261 books5,465 followersChristopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction who specializes in the thriller genre.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programmed computers before becoming a recognized author. Initially unsuccessful when he set out to write science fiction and adult mystery, it was not until his work caught the attention of an editor who suggested he write a teen thriller that he became a hit. The result was Slumber Party (1985), a book about a group of teenagers who run into bizarre and violent events during a ski weekend. After that he wrote Weekend and Chain Letter. All three books went on to become bestsellers.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programmed computers before becoming a recognized author. Initially unsuccessful when he set out to write science fiction and adult mystery, it was not until his work caught the attention of an editor who suggested he write a teen thriller that he became a hit. The result was Slumber Party (1985), a book about a group of teenagers who run into bizarre and violent events during a ski weekend. After that he wrote Weekend and Chain Letter. All three books went on to become bestsellers.
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December 3, 2008
O Christoper Pike, how my 12-year old self loved thee.
May 24, 2015
First we have to talk about the cover of this book. You guys, the tombstone just says "Mike." No last name, no date of birth, no date of death. Just "MIKE." You know, like actual tombstones. MIKE.
Oh Christopher Pike, you disappoint me with this one. I was going to give it one star, but then it would have been rated the same as the Twilight series, which is in a category all to itself. This book is simply ridiculous. The basic story is that an 18-year-old girl named Jean goes on a trip to Hawaii with some friends, but on the plane ride, the guy next to her dies. (It's MIKE!) There's some half-hearted CPR, the stewardess brings out a body bag, and then they finish the flight as if nothing happened. There's no in-flight announcement or anything, no shocked bonding among the passengers, and Jean goes on to her vacation, determined to enjoy it, but haunted by the memory of MIKE, whose death seems somehow ominous and suspicious. Jean starts having these weird dreams and visions about Mike and none of what she does makes any sense at all. I don't even know how to explain the plot of this book because it is just so silly. Nothing is what it seems - blah blah blah. Also, even though Jean and her friends are 18, there is a car rental agency in Hawaii which has no problem renting them a convertible to tool around in.
In Hawaii, Jean and her friends (the hapless overweight one and the slutty bombshell one) take a scuba lesson which is described in excruciatingly specific technical detail for fourteen pages. (Fourteen!!) On the plus side, I am pretty sure that I am now officially scuba certified.
The scuba instructors are of course, super hot and super interested in Jean and her bombshell friend Michele. Poor overweight Mandy has to be the fifth wheel on all of their excursions. And she's terrible at scuba diving - mostly because she lies about her weight and the instructors can't get her to neutral buoyancy (which is a term I learned in my fourteen page scuba class)
There's some business about a dead former partner of the two instructors and a shipwreck and sunken treasure and a skull and hey, could that have anything to do with MIKE and the strange visions that Jean has been having? Why not? Nothing makes sense in this book.
I think I have to read another good Christopher Pike book to cancel this one out. Not good.
Oh Christopher Pike, you disappoint me with this one. I was going to give it one star, but then it would have been rated the same as the Twilight series, which is in a category all to itself. This book is simply ridiculous. The basic story is that an 18-year-old girl named Jean goes on a trip to Hawaii with some friends, but on the plane ride, the guy next to her dies. (It's MIKE!) There's some half-hearted CPR, the stewardess brings out a body bag, and then they finish the flight as if nothing happened. There's no in-flight announcement or anything, no shocked bonding among the passengers, and Jean goes on to her vacation, determined to enjoy it, but haunted by the memory of MIKE, whose death seems somehow ominous and suspicious. Jean starts having these weird dreams and visions about Mike and none of what she does makes any sense at all. I don't even know how to explain the plot of this book because it is just so silly. Nothing is what it seems - blah blah blah. Also, even though Jean and her friends are 18, there is a car rental agency in Hawaii which has no problem renting them a convertible to tool around in.
In Hawaii, Jean and her friends (the hapless overweight one and the slutty bombshell one) take a scuba lesson which is described in excruciatingly specific technical detail for fourteen pages. (Fourteen!!) On the plus side, I am pretty sure that I am now officially scuba certified.
The scuba instructors are of course, super hot and super interested in Jean and her bombshell friend Michele. Poor overweight Mandy has to be the fifth wheel on all of their excursions. And she's terrible at scuba diving - mostly because she lies about her weight and the instructors can't get her to neutral buoyancy (which is a term I learned in my fourteen page scuba class)
There's some business about a dead former partner of the two instructors and a shipwreck and sunken treasure and a skull and hey, could that have anything to do with MIKE and the strange visions that Jean has been having? Why not? Nothing makes sense in this book.
I think I have to read another good Christopher Pike book to cancel this one out. Not good.
August 21, 2025
Christopher Pike excelled in entertaining thrillers for older young adults who were a bit more worldly than those portrayed by paramours like the popular R. L. Stine. That’s no slam on Stine, I’m simply making a distinction between his brand, which can also be enjoyable, and Pike’s.
Read today by an adult, you can add nostalgia to the mix. Released in 1991, Bury Me Deep is a very fun read, and would make a great time at the beach for anyone looking to combine teenage thrills with the nostalgia of late teens whose growing pains involved a few beers, and whether to have sex and when, rather than trying to decide what pronoun they’d like others to use when addressing them, or being so PC offended by statues of revered figures in history, they become drama queens until they’re torn down, proving they never truly understood what Orwell’s 1984 was about.
This one starts out fun, with a trip to Hawaii for of-age Jean, who is joining her friend Mandy, and a beautiful girl named Michele that both girls know, but who has invited herself along. On the long flight over, Jean meets Mike, a sweet kid who promptly dies aboard the plane right in front of her. This tragedy happens immediately and is not a spoiler. This tragic event shakes up Jean, who feels a connection to Mike, even though they only spent a few minutes together on the plane. That connection may be a supernatural one, as Jean soon discovers.
You’d think Jean slept through this fun narrative from comments made by others about this book, but each nap is placed where it makes sense — jet leg from the flight, after a busy day ending at a club with two young men (Dave and Johnny) who are teaching them to scuba dive, etc. — and is barely a blip on the radar. There exists the possibility Jean is being influenced by Mike, who appears in her dreams, possibly trying to tell her something. It becomes so frightening — and dangerous, when she almost takes a header off the hotel balcony — that she actually avoids sleep any more than she must. The dead boy’s influence begins to affect her during waking hours, compelling her to take great and foolish risks underwater as well.
There’s a ton about scuba diving in this Pike entry. It borders on an info dump at first, but eventually becomes very pertinent, because two murders, not one, may have been committed. By someone. A boat that went down near Lanai and may have some serious loot on board may be a piece of the puzzle Jean needs to figure out in order to understand what’s happening to her, and the visions she’s having. But when she’s worried she may be taking Mandy’s boyfriend from under her nose without trying to do so, and there’s so much fun to be had both above and below water, how is she going to focus on Mike, who is no longer among the living? But with his connection to Jean, Mike might as well be alive, as Jean is soon to discover.
I sort of guessed part of this, but with a lot of different possibilities, Pike keeps the reader just unsure enough that the conclusion is both action-packed and thrilling. As another reviewer so astutely noted, Pike was different from others who wrote in this young adult thriller genre, in that he was able to paint the victim in a way that elicited sympathy in the reader, their loss as real as Jean’s when Mike dies on the plane. That tragedy however, kickstarts a fun and thrilling Christopher Pike novel that turns tender in its final moment, giving it that extra something missing in so many others in this genre.
Yes, it’s young adult, but if you can imagine yourself as 17 or 18 again, and put yourself back in these shoes, you’ll have a blast. I had great fun reading this, and find it one of the more memorable Christopher Pike stories. If you give this a try and enjoy it, I can also recommend the following by this author: Slumber Party, Weekend, Gimme a Kiss, Die Softly, Monster, and the really splendid, Fall Into Darkness. There was a touch of realness to Pike’s kids, even in the stories that had supernatural elements at the forefront (Monster), so not all of them had the kind of ending we’d like. This one I think does, despite a new death that brings even more teenage poignancy to the epilog. Highly recommended!
Read today by an adult, you can add nostalgia to the mix. Released in 1991, Bury Me Deep is a very fun read, and would make a great time at the beach for anyone looking to combine teenage thrills with the nostalgia of late teens whose growing pains involved a few beers, and whether to have sex and when, rather than trying to decide what pronoun they’d like others to use when addressing them, or being so PC offended by statues of revered figures in history, they become drama queens until they’re torn down, proving they never truly understood what Orwell’s 1984 was about.
This one starts out fun, with a trip to Hawaii for of-age Jean, who is joining her friend Mandy, and a beautiful girl named Michele that both girls know, but who has invited herself along. On the long flight over, Jean meets Mike, a sweet kid who promptly dies aboard the plane right in front of her. This tragedy happens immediately and is not a spoiler. This tragic event shakes up Jean, who feels a connection to Mike, even though they only spent a few minutes together on the plane. That connection may be a supernatural one, as Jean soon discovers.
You’d think Jean slept through this fun narrative from comments made by others about this book, but each nap is placed where it makes sense — jet leg from the flight, after a busy day ending at a club with two young men (Dave and Johnny) who are teaching them to scuba dive, etc. — and is barely a blip on the radar. There exists the possibility Jean is being influenced by Mike, who appears in her dreams, possibly trying to tell her something. It becomes so frightening — and dangerous, when she almost takes a header off the hotel balcony — that she actually avoids sleep any more than she must. The dead boy’s influence begins to affect her during waking hours, compelling her to take great and foolish risks underwater as well.
There’s a ton about scuba diving in this Pike entry. It borders on an info dump at first, but eventually becomes very pertinent, because two murders, not one, may have been committed. By someone. A boat that went down near Lanai and may have some serious loot on board may be a piece of the puzzle Jean needs to figure out in order to understand what’s happening to her, and the visions she’s having. But when she’s worried she may be taking Mandy’s boyfriend from under her nose without trying to do so, and there’s so much fun to be had both above and below water, how is she going to focus on Mike, who is no longer among the living? But with his connection to Jean, Mike might as well be alive, as Jean is soon to discover.
I sort of guessed part of this, but with a lot of different possibilities, Pike keeps the reader just unsure enough that the conclusion is both action-packed and thrilling. As another reviewer so astutely noted, Pike was different from others who wrote in this young adult thriller genre, in that he was able to paint the victim in a way that elicited sympathy in the reader, their loss as real as Jean’s when Mike dies on the plane. That tragedy however, kickstarts a fun and thrilling Christopher Pike novel that turns tender in its final moment, giving it that extra something missing in so many others in this genre.
Yes, it’s young adult, but if you can imagine yourself as 17 or 18 again, and put yourself back in these shoes, you’ll have a blast. I had great fun reading this, and find it one of the more memorable Christopher Pike stories. If you give this a try and enjoy it, I can also recommend the following by this author: Slumber Party, Weekend, Gimme a Kiss, Die Softly, Monster, and the really splendid, Fall Into Darkness. There was a touch of realness to Pike’s kids, even in the stories that had supernatural elements at the forefront (Monster), so not all of them had the kind of ending we’d like. This one I think does, despite a new death that brings even more teenage poignancy to the epilog. Highly recommended!
October 25, 2018
Ah, early nineties nostalgia! This takes me back to when I was just an awkward, braces-wearing, boy-crazy tween. Oh, Christopher Pike! R.L. Stine had nothing on you, baby.
Why this wasn't as good as my favorite CP book, Remember Me, or some of this other oldies, this was still a fun ride into the past. Oh, the cheese! The fashion! The murder! The random, 40 page info dump on scuba diving! The gravestone that just reads "MIKE" across it! (because duh grave stones come that way).
I'm reading this with a buddy and a few other old CP novels for fun...seems appropriate for the season ;)
Why this wasn't as good as my favorite CP book, Remember Me, or some of this other oldies, this was still a fun ride into the past. Oh, the cheese! The fashion! The murder! The random, 40 page info dump on scuba diving! The gravestone that just reads "MIKE" across it! (because duh grave stones come that way).
I'm reading this with a buddy and a few other old CP novels for fun...seems appropriate for the season ;)
October 23, 2022
I've never known a character to sleep so much in a book as poor, gorgeous, Jean, an 18yr old student, fresh out of school after finishing her last exam, who trades in text books for a bikini and the promise of a care free week in Hawaii with a couple of her girlfriends. However, rather than lapping up the sun, she ends up napping and missing all the fun.
First nap: en route to Hawaii aboard the airplane. Seems fair enough, however Jean's nap comes within minutes of the passenger seated next to her having died following some sort of seizure....her sleep isn't shock induced, rather, she's just tired. Poor Jean.
Second nap: Hawaii here we come! After catching up with her two equally gorgeous/supermodel-like friends, Jean visits the land on nod again after unpacking at the hotel. It's so draining getting from the airport to the hotel!
Third nap: Following a crash course in scuba diving with a two attractive/supermodel guys (there's a theme here...), Jean just can't keep her eyes open! I mean, she's only had two naps today and a third is definitely needed after all this physical exertion in the training pool!
Then, after a busy day of napping, witnessing a young man die horribly on the plane, partying with the hot scuba instructors it's time to hit the sack for the night - being Jean is hard work dammit and she needs her beauty sleep to maintain her, um, beauty? It's not really clear why she sleeps so much...
Sleep aside, the Hawaii trop is an ill-fated holiday destination if ever there was one. When she's not napping her life away, Jean is carelessly throwing herself in front of danger. Be it in the form of merciless killers or playing Russian roulette with her oxygen supply during a deep dive at night, alone, and in a dangerously tight and twisty underwater cave system...not the brightest crayon in the pack is Jean. Then there's the supernatural element to the story...conversations with a ghost (could be a talk show) in a strange otherworld realm...Naturally her friends think she' batsh!t crazy when she tries to apply logic when recounting said conversations, and really, she kind of is...
Bury Me Deep, despite the emphasis on the land of nod, is a pretty decent light-hearted thriller with some horror thrown in for good measure. Reading it is like slipping into a nice warm bath on a cold day, it's relaxing and enjoyable and you can check your brain out at the door and leave the real world behind for a while.
First nap: en route to Hawaii aboard the airplane. Seems fair enough, however Jean's nap comes within minutes of the passenger seated next to her having died following some sort of seizure....her sleep isn't shock induced, rather, she's just tired. Poor Jean.
Second nap: Hawaii here we come! After catching up with her two equally gorgeous/supermodel-like friends, Jean visits the land on nod again after unpacking at the hotel. It's so draining getting from the airport to the hotel!
Third nap: Following a crash course in scuba diving with a two attractive/supermodel guys (there's a theme here...), Jean just can't keep her eyes open! I mean, she's only had two naps today and a third is definitely needed after all this physical exertion in the training pool!
Then, after a busy day of napping, witnessing a young man die horribly on the plane, partying with the hot scuba instructors it's time to hit the sack for the night - being Jean is hard work dammit and she needs her beauty sleep to maintain her, um, beauty? It's not really clear why she sleeps so much...
Sleep aside, the Hawaii trop is an ill-fated holiday destination if ever there was one. When she's not napping her life away, Jean is carelessly throwing herself in front of danger. Be it in the form of merciless killers or playing Russian roulette with her oxygen supply during a deep dive at night, alone, and in a dangerously tight and twisty underwater cave system...not the brightest crayon in the pack is Jean. Then there's the supernatural element to the story...conversations with a ghost (could be a talk show) in a strange otherworld realm...Naturally her friends think she' batsh!t crazy when she tries to apply logic when recounting said conversations, and really, she kind of is...
Bury Me Deep, despite the emphasis on the land of nod, is a pretty decent light-hearted thriller with some horror thrown in for good measure. Reading it is like slipping into a nice warm bath on a cold day, it's relaxing and enjoyable and you can check your brain out at the door and leave the real world behind for a while.
May 28, 2023
my favorite christopher pike yet! when they say bury me deep, they mean deep in THE OCEAN, bro!!
this has all the classic teen scream twists, and it's a fantastic romp. jean's vacation to hawaii gets off to a traumatizing start when the kid sitting next to her on the plane, mike, drops dead during their flight (after saying some spooky stuff about a moonlit underwater cave). but witnessing his gruesome death doesn't stop jean from living it up! she arrives in hawaii and jumps right into a scuba lesson with her friends!
but jean is haunted by eerie detailed dreams of mike and the underwater cave. during a deep dive she finds the cave herself, finds a skull inside it, and almost dies trying to resurface. scuba diving is truly a terrifying endeavor. things heat up when
jean does some fast sleuthing,
the book ends on a surprisingly sweet note. happy endings are not always so tender in this type of novel, but this one is really nice. the ocean terror is a unique flavor of horror, and overall the book is a blast.
adding extra star for that absolutely perfect cover. inimitably wonderful.
this has all the classic teen scream twists, and it's a fantastic romp. jean's vacation to hawaii gets off to a traumatizing start when the kid sitting next to her on the plane, mike, drops dead during their flight (after saying some spooky stuff about a moonlit underwater cave). but witnessing his gruesome death doesn't stop jean from living it up! she arrives in hawaii and jumps right into a scuba lesson with her friends!
but jean is haunted by eerie detailed dreams of mike and the underwater cave. during a deep dive she finds the cave herself, finds a skull inside it, and almost dies trying to resurface. scuba diving is truly a terrifying endeavor. things heat up when
jean does some fast sleuthing,
the book ends on a surprisingly sweet note. happy endings are not always so tender in this type of novel, but this one is really nice. the ocean terror is a unique flavor of horror, and overall the book is a blast.
adding extra star for that absolutely perfect cover. inimitably wonderful.
August 18, 2021
I never got into Christopher Pike books as a young adult. L.J. Smith and R.L. Stine were more my speed. I've read a few as an adult, and I have to say, still not a fan. His plots and writing do not excite me. Especially when reading the book basically enrolls me in a scuba diving course against my will.
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February 4, 2018
80s and 90s young adult horror books are like 80s hair metal bands. You know they're not winning any awards, but every now and and then you have to shut your brain off and have some fun.
October 26, 2022
I am so happy that Christopher Pike is getting more attention, what with The Midnight Club being released as a limited series on Netflix … he was my favorite writer growing up, and I consider him the pioneer in the 1980s and 1990s writing young adult thrillers …
So I went digging in my storage bins in the garage and pulled out my Christopher Pike books to reread … and I was pleasantly surprised … this book follows Jean, who is meeting her best friend, Mandy, and an acquaintance, Michele, in Hawaii for spring break … they meet Dave and Johnny, who teach scuba classes at their hotel, and Dave and Johnny take them to a couple different dive sites around Maui … however, Jean is haunted by a young man she meets on the plane, Mike … did he really die on the plane or did he drown while on a scuba dive? Jean continues to have nightmares about Mike and is determined to figure out what really happened to him …
one thing I loved about Christopher Pike’s books was that he always retained the humanity of murder victims … so many mystery books and series relegate victims as just another dead body … what Pike did in this book especially was create a sense of mourning, sympathy and sadness in the characters who were killed or injured … the ending especially was rather touching …
So I went digging in my storage bins in the garage and pulled out my Christopher Pike books to reread … and I was pleasantly surprised … this book follows Jean, who is meeting her best friend, Mandy, and an acquaintance, Michele, in Hawaii for spring break … they meet Dave and Johnny, who teach scuba classes at their hotel, and Dave and Johnny take them to a couple different dive sites around Maui … however, Jean is haunted by a young man she meets on the plane, Mike … did he really die on the plane or did he drown while on a scuba dive? Jean continues to have nightmares about Mike and is determined to figure out what really happened to him …
one thing I loved about Christopher Pike’s books was that he always retained the humanity of murder victims … so many mystery books and series relegate victims as just another dead body … what Pike did in this book especially was create a sense of mourning, sympathy and sadness in the characters who were killed or injured … the ending especially was rather touching …
November 3, 2022
Well, after so long, we're now at the true finale of my Almost-A-Year of Pike thing.I had y'all vote on some Pike books I randomized to see which I do last for this and this came out as the victor. I was interested due to the cover as well as a reply I got about it saying it was less deep and more action-y. They framed it like a bad thing but you've been reading these, you know that's exactly what I've been wanting lol.
And I guess they were right, but only like halfway. I'm currently recovering from sickness so this slight "buzz" going on which I think affected my enjoyment in a good way? This has the hallmarks I expected, it was on the long side but I wasn't as annoyed by that as much this time. It's weird.
Anyway, Jean Fisacal is vacationing in Hawaii with some friends. On the plane there, she meets a nice guy named Mike...who dies from what seems like a seizure soon after. This messes with her and hangs over her as they try to have fun. She starts having dreams that hint at something weirder/bigger going on with poor Mike....
The first half 0f this book is basically just a Hawaiian vacation where also someone dies at one point. It's weird, a lot more focus is put on frivolous stuff over a lager story until the latter half. If you love scuba diving this book is for you as we get a bunch of it and tons of detail. My eyes glazed over at a certain point during all that lol.
I sorta liked that stuff for the chill vibe it had but as usual I wanted it to just get to the point. The latter is more about the mystery and tension, which made it more fun than average. It's not as complicated as usual so you could easily make this into just 160 ish pages instead of 212.
One quirk of this one is that it's super horny. Seriously, everyone seems to be always talking about how they wanna bone down and such. We don't get any actual on page sex this time but this has the most sex talk of any of these. This book needs to get laid. This dies down in the latter half, and weirdly there's not as much romance as Jean doesn't fully hook up with anyone. That was refreshing.
One thing that did somewhat annoy me is Mandy. Our friend group also has Michele (or Jill as the back of the book says, whoops), the especially horny one, and then Mandy. She is "big boned" and while it doesn't like fully go there, she is just big enough for it to be a factor in the scuba scenes and it makes her a burden despite being fairly nice. It's iffy and weird.
The plot as a whole is nothing special but is acceptable. There's some usual mild metaphysical stuff but nothing deep as far as themeing goes. There is some substance with the bits of emotion we get, like with Mike. It's nice at least. I actually appreciate how this took more of a break from the bigger deep stuff, especially coming off Midnight Club. It almost touches on death in a similar way but is more basic about it.
I don't mind it, I just wish it was shorter as this type of plotting lends itself to something quicker. It seems like Pike wanted to relax a bit in his own weird way but couldn't ditch some of his bigger problems. Ah well.
As it is, I had fun with it. It's on the lesser end but being more fun than usual earns it points. It's not the greatest but there's enough fun to be had.
That ends this Pike journey I suppose. I do want to read more down the road but that will be a while, I've read my fair share for now. This has be a fun exercise as I got a solid taste of his YA work. It's not the full picture as I didn't get to some classics but I got a good idea.
As you can tell by now, he's not fully for me on that front. They tend to be too long and sloggy for me. I have a lot of respect for what these do, going into deeper and weirder places. I do feel like they have some of the usual trappings of these kind of things which stands out more here since he's more ambitious.
He's certainly on the long winded side, as this one showed. The ones were mostly good enough, just not always as satisfying as they could be. The things he was more acclaimed for as more commonplace now so that plays a part as well. I wouldn't say the stuff is even as complex as it's made out to be, as typically it's more appearing that way than actually being it.
But despite that, they tend to try and this journey has been wild and interesting. It was fun but I'm happy to take a break from this bigger stuff. With that said, before we go, my ranking of the Pike's we read this for this:
Cheerleaders Getting Even
Execution of Innocence
The Lost Mind
Bury Me Deep
Spellbound
Fall into Darkness
The Wicked Heart
Witch
The Last Vampire
Chain Letter
The Midnight Club
Well, that wraps this up. We'll be back with the ripoff series round but I got blog work coming up so who knows when I can fit it all in. Either way, see ya.
And I guess they were right, but only like halfway. I'm currently recovering from sickness so this slight "buzz" going on which I think affected my enjoyment in a good way? This has the hallmarks I expected, it was on the long side but I wasn't as annoyed by that as much this time. It's weird.
Anyway, Jean Fisacal is vacationing in Hawaii with some friends. On the plane there, she meets a nice guy named Mike...who dies from what seems like a seizure soon after. This messes with her and hangs over her as they try to have fun. She starts having dreams that hint at something weirder/bigger going on with poor Mike....
The first half 0f this book is basically just a Hawaiian vacation where also someone dies at one point. It's weird, a lot more focus is put on frivolous stuff over a lager story until the latter half. If you love scuba diving this book is for you as we get a bunch of it and tons of detail. My eyes glazed over at a certain point during all that lol.
I sorta liked that stuff for the chill vibe it had but as usual I wanted it to just get to the point. The latter is more about the mystery and tension, which made it more fun than average. It's not as complicated as usual so you could easily make this into just 160 ish pages instead of 212.
One quirk of this one is that it's super horny. Seriously, everyone seems to be always talking about how they wanna bone down and such. We don't get any actual on page sex this time but this has the most sex talk of any of these. This book needs to get laid. This dies down in the latter half, and weirdly there's not as much romance as Jean doesn't fully hook up with anyone. That was refreshing.
One thing that did somewhat annoy me is Mandy. Our friend group also has Michele (or Jill as the back of the book says, whoops), the especially horny one, and then Mandy. She is "big boned" and while it doesn't like fully go there, she is just big enough for it to be a factor in the scuba scenes and it makes her a burden despite being fairly nice. It's iffy and weird.
The plot as a whole is nothing special but is acceptable. There's some usual mild metaphysical stuff but nothing deep as far as themeing goes. There is some substance with the bits of emotion we get, like with Mike. It's nice at least. I actually appreciate how this took more of a break from the bigger deep stuff, especially coming off Midnight Club. It almost touches on death in a similar way but is more basic about it.
I don't mind it, I just wish it was shorter as this type of plotting lends itself to something quicker. It seems like Pike wanted to relax a bit in his own weird way but couldn't ditch some of his bigger problems. Ah well.
As it is, I had fun with it. It's on the lesser end but being more fun than usual earns it points. It's not the greatest but there's enough fun to be had.
That ends this Pike journey I suppose. I do want to read more down the road but that will be a while, I've read my fair share for now. This has be a fun exercise as I got a solid taste of his YA work. It's not the full picture as I didn't get to some classics but I got a good idea.
As you can tell by now, he's not fully for me on that front. They tend to be too long and sloggy for me. I have a lot of respect for what these do, going into deeper and weirder places. I do feel like they have some of the usual trappings of these kind of things which stands out more here since he's more ambitious.
He's certainly on the long winded side, as this one showed. The ones were mostly good enough, just not always as satisfying as they could be. The things he was more acclaimed for as more commonplace now so that plays a part as well. I wouldn't say the stuff is even as complex as it's made out to be, as typically it's more appearing that way than actually being it.
But despite that, they tend to try and this journey has been wild and interesting. It was fun but I'm happy to take a break from this bigger stuff. With that said, before we go, my ranking of the Pike's we read this for this:
Cheerleaders Getting Even
Execution of Innocence
The Lost Mind
Bury Me Deep
Spellbound
Fall into Darkness
The Wicked Heart
Witch
The Last Vampire
Chain Letter
The Midnight Club
Well, that wraps this up. We'll be back with the ripoff series round but I got blog work coming up so who knows when I can fit it all in. Either way, see ya.
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March 29, 2014So, scuba diving.
Before I read this book, what little I knew about scuba diving was comprised largely of reruns of Sea Hunt I've caught over the years. I also knew little about young adult horror, particularly of the 80s/90s variety. When this style of book was overflowing junior high shelves, I was reading Stephen King and Dragonlance.
If this book is any indication, I made quite the oversight.
Bury Me Deep is awash with the softening haze of a well-watched VHS of a made-for-TV movie. The beach was probably once bright, but now it's faded to the color of aged pages. The sounds of the surf blend with the ambient electronic hum of stretching videotape. It's like reading someone else's vacation diary or flipping through a junior high yearbook of a school you never attended. The nostalgia I felt when reading this wasn't my own, but that of thousands of young people who must have also learned a great deal about scuba diving through this book.
The writing and plot of the book are, like the finest made-for-TV movies, workmanlike. The plot is sufficiently strange in places to allow for the frission of simple prose with striking images. There is a certain amount of "spot the potential influence" that can be played with the imagery and plot of the book but the overall feel is familiarity without imitation. There is at least one scene in this novel sufficiently peculiar to have not been taken from any other source, but the rest is a story friends might pass amongst each other, no one really believing it but everyone thrilling at the occasional death and speculating (all too easily) at the identity of the murderer. The structure of the book waits for spill more than a drop of blood until the metaphorical parents' lights are off and the audience is left alone to hear the mildly gory details. Reading this, you can hear the music rising as the scene should fade to commercial.
Sex weaves throughout the book as something still distant, yet approaching. Jean ruminates on her desire to lose her virginity, but puts it aside for fun in the sun. Mandy, her friend, is more willing but ultimately rejected. Michele, the sexually active girl, is removed from the two friends by intimacy on both a personal and sexual level. Michele knows about sex. Michele enjoys sex. Michele drifts through the plot, remote enough that Jean suspects her of various crimes. If Jean is wading into the waves with her toes curled slightly against the chilly tide, Michele has submerged into the unseen depths of sexuality. Unlike Jean and Mandy, Michele has been to Hawaii before. In most 80s horror, sex is punishable only by barbaric death. In this book, sex gets you a bump on the head after being implicated in a murder. Compared to getting a spear rammed through you mid-coitus, it's a refreshingly light judgment.
Between the homicidal intrigue and occasional moments of almost-making-out, there's scuba diving. Bury Me Deep functions as a decent tutorial on how to become a quick scuba master. Having read this, I believe I could avoid killing myself via the bends if I ever decided to go one hundred feet deep to explore a cave with a mysterious skull inside it, provided my scuba instructor didn't turn out to be a gibbering maniac at the end.
Now I have to toss myself into the deep end of young adult horror and see what other PG-rated titillation I can uncover...hopefully without getting involved too deeply in a murder in the process.
The moral lessons are: listen to ghosts, don't get the hots for crazy scuba instructors, and always, always breathe deep and slow when coming back to the surface.
Lloyd Bridges never taught me that in Sea Hunt.
Before I read this book, what little I knew about scuba diving was comprised largely of reruns of Sea Hunt I've caught over the years. I also knew little about young adult horror, particularly of the 80s/90s variety. When this style of book was overflowing junior high shelves, I was reading Stephen King and Dragonlance.
If this book is any indication, I made quite the oversight.
Bury Me Deep is awash with the softening haze of a well-watched VHS of a made-for-TV movie. The beach was probably once bright, but now it's faded to the color of aged pages. The sounds of the surf blend with the ambient electronic hum of stretching videotape. It's like reading someone else's vacation diary or flipping through a junior high yearbook of a school you never attended. The nostalgia I felt when reading this wasn't my own, but that of thousands of young people who must have also learned a great deal about scuba diving through this book.
The writing and plot of the book are, like the finest made-for-TV movies, workmanlike. The plot is sufficiently strange in places to allow for the frission of simple prose with striking images. There is a certain amount of "spot the potential influence" that can be played with the imagery and plot of the book but the overall feel is familiarity without imitation. There is at least one scene in this novel sufficiently peculiar to have not been taken from any other source, but the rest is a story friends might pass amongst each other, no one really believing it but everyone thrilling at the occasional death and speculating (all too easily) at the identity of the murderer. The structure of the book waits for spill more than a drop of blood until the metaphorical parents' lights are off and the audience is left alone to hear the mildly gory details. Reading this, you can hear the music rising as the scene should fade to commercial.
Sex weaves throughout the book as something still distant, yet approaching. Jean ruminates on her desire to lose her virginity, but puts it aside for fun in the sun. Mandy, her friend, is more willing but ultimately rejected. Michele, the sexually active girl, is removed from the two friends by intimacy on both a personal and sexual level. Michele knows about sex. Michele enjoys sex. Michele drifts through the plot, remote enough that Jean suspects her of various crimes. If Jean is wading into the waves with her toes curled slightly against the chilly tide, Michele has submerged into the unseen depths of sexuality. Unlike Jean and Mandy, Michele has been to Hawaii before. In most 80s horror, sex is punishable only by barbaric death. In this book, sex gets you a bump on the head after being implicated in a murder. Compared to getting a spear rammed through you mid-coitus, it's a refreshingly light judgment.
Between the homicidal intrigue and occasional moments of almost-making-out, there's scuba diving. Bury Me Deep functions as a decent tutorial on how to become a quick scuba master. Having read this, I believe I could avoid killing myself via the bends if I ever decided to go one hundred feet deep to explore a cave with a mysterious skull inside it, provided my scuba instructor didn't turn out to be a gibbering maniac at the end.
Now I have to toss myself into the deep end of young adult horror and see what other PG-rated titillation I can uncover...hopefully without getting involved too deeply in a murder in the process.
The moral lessons are: listen to ghosts, don't get the hots for crazy scuba instructors, and always, always breathe deep and slow when coming back to the surface.
Lloyd Bridges never taught me that in Sea Hunt.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 23, 2011
This was my first Christopher Pike book. Will probably be my last. Thought it would be fun and easy to read. In truth, this book was a real drag. I did not read it for nostalgic reasons or ironic reasons. Was just interested in reading some popular young adult fiction. The main problem was the repetition of certain events. If you cut out the parts that are repeated over and over again the book would be very short. The book contains about 7 full pages of text about a skull with a hole in it. Ever five pages the skull is brought up. I KNOW ABOUT THE SKULL! SHUT UP!!!
June 18, 2017
I don't remember much of this one, and even skimming it isn't bringing much back. Seems decent enough, though - a supernatural/mystery set in Hawaii. Not as horror-based as the cover makes it look.
May 6, 2025
3,5*
This has been one of my favorite Christopher Pike books I have read so far and I think the main reason why is that the characters felt more fleshed out and alive than in other of his books.
Jean is on her way to Hawaii to meet some friends for a week of fun. But her trip there will take a really dark turn. In the plane, a boy mysteriously dies and she will not be able to forget it.
Together with her friends, Jean will learn some scuba diving and try to forget about the plane incident. However she will start to make some discoveries that take her back to Mike, the guy that died on the place.
How is it all connected? What truly happened to Mike? Who can she trust?
Even though I did guess who the bad person was in the story, this did not ruin my enjoyment of the story whatsoever. This book has some interesting twists and turns to the story and it was a story with more heart, grief and meaning than other of his young adult books.
Probably that is also why this one has been one of my favorites. Also there are some underwater scenes that make me really uncomfortable since I am not a huge fan of diving deep into the sea. So those moments are always terrifying to me.
This has been one of my favorite Christopher Pike books I have read so far and I think the main reason why is that the characters felt more fleshed out and alive than in other of his books.
Jean is on her way to Hawaii to meet some friends for a week of fun. But her trip there will take a really dark turn. In the plane, a boy mysteriously dies and she will not be able to forget it.
Together with her friends, Jean will learn some scuba diving and try to forget about the plane incident. However she will start to make some discoveries that take her back to Mike, the guy that died on the place.
How is it all connected? What truly happened to Mike? Who can she trust?
Even though I did guess who the bad person was in the story, this did not ruin my enjoyment of the story whatsoever. This book has some interesting twists and turns to the story and it was a story with more heart, grief and meaning than other of his young adult books.
Probably that is also why this one has been one of my favorites. Also there are some underwater scenes that make me really uncomfortable since I am not a huge fan of diving deep into the sea. So those moments are always terrifying to me.
April 27, 2024
Full disclosure, I was a little too young for Pike when he was popular so I’ve never really heard of him until recently and this is my first by him.
I had been seeing that a lot of people preferred his work to Stine’s? If I were to judge based only on this one book (which I won’t, because that wouldn’t be fair), but if I were, it’d be a hard no.
I thought this was boring. There was waaayyy too much science about diving and snorkeling and the bends. I didn’t care.
The horror wasn’t super horrifying. The MC was TSTL.
I dunno. Just a little disappointed. I wanted more camp!
I had been seeing that a lot of people preferred his work to Stine’s? If I were to judge based only on this one book (which I won’t, because that wouldn’t be fair), but if I were, it’d be a hard no.
I thought this was boring. There was waaayyy too much science about diving and snorkeling and the bends. I didn’t care.
The horror wasn’t super horrifying. The MC was TSTL.
I dunno. Just a little disappointed. I wanted more camp!
June 4, 2019
So Christopher Pike once went on a scuba diving excursion once and created a whole horror story regarding his family vacation recreational activity and kudos to him.
Most of the book is major extra descriptive pages about scuba diving and how it ties into death, betrayal, gambling addiction, teen romance, and treasure. Oh and ghosts.
Most of the book is major extra descriptive pages about scuba diving and how it ties into death, betrayal, gambling addiction, teen romance, and treasure. Oh and ghosts.
July 11, 2020
I *loved* this book as a kid, and when it randomly came up last week in conversation with a group of friends, we all decided to read it and book club it. It did NOT disappoint.
This is a five-star read in the way that watching _The Room_ or _Troll 2_ is a five-star movie experience. The plot, characters, dialogue, settings, and every detail are completely bananas and thus mind blowing in their entertainment value. Jean alone is truly memorable. By the time I had hit page 11, I had laughed myself to tears three separate times.
If you are looking for a well-devised, award winning literary masterpiece, this is not your jam. If you are in need of so-bad-it's-excellent moment, this is for you. I can't wait to debrief IRL (so, obviously on Zoom) about why I loved this book as a kid and love it even more now. Get your friends and family together, send a Zoom link, and prepare to get buried...DEEP.
This is a five-star read in the way that watching _The Room_ or _Troll 2_ is a five-star movie experience. The plot, characters, dialogue, settings, and every detail are completely bananas and thus mind blowing in their entertainment value. Jean alone is truly memorable. By the time I had hit page 11, I had laughed myself to tears three separate times.
If you are looking for a well-devised, award winning literary masterpiece, this is not your jam. If you are in need of so-bad-it's-excellent moment, this is for you. I can't wait to debrief IRL (so, obviously on Zoom) about why I loved this book as a kid and love it even more now. Get your friends and family together, send a Zoom link, and prepare to get buried...DEEP.
October 8, 2009
"Bury Me Deep" is the first Christopher Pike book I've ever read when I was 12 years old. It then started the Pike-reading frenzy of my early teens.
It begins with Jean Fiscal on her way to Hawaii for spring vacation. She's going to meet her two friends in Maui, who have already started their vacation a couple days earlier. Jean is expecting to have a great time there, but she doesn't even leave the airplane before her vacation is changed for the worse. The young man, Mike Clyde, who was sitting next to her suddenly has a seizure and dies. Although she only got to know him briefly, Jean is very affected by his death.
She tries to forget about the incident once she arrives on the island. Her two friends try to help by introducing her to two scuba diving instructors, Johnny and Dave. The five of them make plans to go scuba diving, which is a great distraction for Jean.
What slowed the plot down was when Pike dedicated a whole chapter to scuba diving. Although scuba diving is basically what it's all about, there were just too many details.
This supernatural mystery links two separate deaths: the death of Mike and a fellow scuba diver of Dave and Johnny's, Ringo. At first, neither seem related at all. After all, Mike had died on the plane and Dave and Johnny's friend had died a year ago. However, Jean reveals that Mike had, in fact, died a month ago--not days ago--at the exact spot where she found the cave and skull. His ghost is what keeps hanging around, haunting her dreams and almost driving her crazy.
Book Details:
Title Bury Me Deep
Author Christopher Pike
Reviewed By Purplycookie
It begins with Jean Fiscal on her way to Hawaii for spring vacation. She's going to meet her two friends in Maui, who have already started their vacation a couple days earlier. Jean is expecting to have a great time there, but she doesn't even leave the airplane before her vacation is changed for the worse. The young man, Mike Clyde, who was sitting next to her suddenly has a seizure and dies. Although she only got to know him briefly, Jean is very affected by his death.
She tries to forget about the incident once she arrives on the island. Her two friends try to help by introducing her to two scuba diving instructors, Johnny and Dave. The five of them make plans to go scuba diving, which is a great distraction for Jean.
What slowed the plot down was when Pike dedicated a whole chapter to scuba diving. Although scuba diving is basically what it's all about, there were just too many details.
This supernatural mystery links two separate deaths: the death of Mike and a fellow scuba diver of Dave and Johnny's, Ringo. At first, neither seem related at all. After all, Mike had died on the plane and Dave and Johnny's friend had died a year ago. However, Jean reveals that Mike had, in fact, died a month ago--not days ago--at the exact spot where she found the cave and skull. His ghost is what keeps hanging around, haunting her dreams and almost driving her crazy.
Book Details:
Title Bury Me Deep
Author Christopher Pike
Reviewed By Purplycookie
October 27, 2019
This cover! The days of the 80s and 90s with their bespoke painted covers in neon colors. This one comes straight from the golden year of 1991.
Nonetheless this cover is completely misleading. Yes, there are two cemetery scenes in this novel, but most of the action takes place in the coral reefs of Hawaii as Jean, Mandy and Michele learn to SCUBA... and uncover sordid truths hidden beneath the beautiful Pacific.
It did have some paranormal elements (that's fine, I can suspend belief), and the story was on a concise and solid track from start to finish without diverging on strange tangents or false trails, but overall it was a "just OK" mystery, a little less gory than Pike's other novels.
Nonetheless this cover is completely misleading. Yes, there are two cemetery scenes in this novel, but most of the action takes place in the coral reefs of Hawaii as Jean, Mandy and Michele learn to SCUBA... and uncover sordid truths hidden beneath the beautiful Pacific.
It did have some paranormal elements (that's fine, I can suspend belief), and the story was on a concise and solid track from start to finish without diverging on strange tangents or false trails, but overall it was a "just OK" mystery, a little less gory than Pike's other novels.
April 28, 2024
3.5 stars upon reread. I remembered the twist and it's crazy how much of this book I remembered. Honestly, I remembered almost all of it. I do think Jean is an idiot who goes around telling everyone too much which leads to her having terrible deduction skills when faced with danger. It wasn't my favorite of the Pike reads I've explored in the last months, but it's definitely better than the Final Friends trilogy. Review to come.
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2011 review
Bury Me Deep is a suspenseful story about Jean who encounters a boy on a plain on her way to Hawaii for Spring Break and he turns out to be a ghost.
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2011 review
Bury Me Deep is a suspenseful story about Jean who encounters a boy on a plain on her way to Hawaii for Spring Break and he turns out to be a ghost.
April 17, 2020
This was my first Christopher Pike book. I was a huge R L Stine fan growing up and was obsessed with his Fear Street books, so I never really attempted Pike's books as I thought it was some form of betrayal or something lol. But I recently came across a bunch of these at a used book sale for cheap so I grabbed them. I was actually pretty entertained by this one. Sure, it's a teen book and the writing isn't exactly spectacular, but it was still fun. There's a lot of scuba talk in this story. Like pages and pages of details. But I actually love scuba diving so it was entertaining for me. Overall, this was a fun read and I can't wait to read more.
May 20, 2025
i'm torn. the beginning was really dragged out with in depth scuba diving instructions and the second half was really well done and had me hooked. however, both halves lasted for approximately 100 pages only so my biggest critique is that the book was too short
June 5, 2016
Christopher Pike has an amazing endowment for winding together complex, deep plots, especially for young adult tales. Bury Me Deep isn’t the most composite of the lot, but it still harps an intriguing tale that’s a mystery from day one. Jean gets on a plane headed for Hawaii , to meet two other teen girl friends for a week of paradise. Next to her seat is a boy, Mike, who never reaches his destination. Instead, he starts to mysteriously suffocate, and then falls away dead, in front of Jean’s horrified eyes. Not the best start to a vacation, Jean can’t shake the feeling of dread as she tries to make the best of what’s left for her on the trip.
Finding that her two friends have enrolled the three in scuba diving glasses, taught of course by two attractive men, the five is soon constantly bombarded by one terrible occurrence after another, with none of them making much sense. After being plagued by ominous dreams of the dead boy and finding a skull in an underwater cave, Jean must unravel this mystery before it gets the best of her.
The book never bores, keeping action and interest levels high. The mystery, told through only Jean’s eyes, leaves the reader unsure of what is happening, although it was a bit of a disappointment to guess the potential culprit(s) halfway through the tale. Still, reading to the end proved to be an enjoyment, even if guesses prove right, and as is usual Pike style, the words never grow stale as they work their magic upon the reader.
Characterization is strong, but still a little weaker than other Pike books. He generally writes very real type people for the teen audience, over what many of the modern authors fail to do, not creating simple innocent dolls that scream of Brady Bunch marathons. Here Jean is a bit stiff at first, but gradually warms into a full-blooded human being. Her friends are cliché to an extent, but still likable, and the men come through as more easily realistic, perhaps because Jean doesn’t know them before the story starts, not forcing Pike to do a downplay of their general personalities.
While not as darkly orientated as Whisper of Death and some other Pike pieces, it still has grim layers, bizarre parental relationships, and tragedy that’s as adult as any.
Finding that her two friends have enrolled the three in scuba diving glasses, taught of course by two attractive men, the five is soon constantly bombarded by one terrible occurrence after another, with none of them making much sense. After being plagued by ominous dreams of the dead boy and finding a skull in an underwater cave, Jean must unravel this mystery before it gets the best of her.
The book never bores, keeping action and interest levels high. The mystery, told through only Jean’s eyes, leaves the reader unsure of what is happening, although it was a bit of a disappointment to guess the potential culprit(s) halfway through the tale. Still, reading to the end proved to be an enjoyment, even if guesses prove right, and as is usual Pike style, the words never grow stale as they work their magic upon the reader.
Characterization is strong, but still a little weaker than other Pike books. He generally writes very real type people for the teen audience, over what many of the modern authors fail to do, not creating simple innocent dolls that scream of Brady Bunch marathons. Here Jean is a bit stiff at first, but gradually warms into a full-blooded human being. Her friends are cliché to an extent, but still likable, and the men come through as more easily realistic, perhaps because Jean doesn’t know them before the story starts, not forcing Pike to do a downplay of their general personalities.
While not as darkly orientated as Whisper of Death and some other Pike pieces, it still has grim layers, bizarre parental relationships, and tragedy that’s as adult as any.
May 24, 2017
I give this one 3.5 Stars. Bury Me Deep was a good Spring Break beach read (especially when commuting back and forth between Pennsauken and AC.) Of course there was a strong female lead in Jean, which I tend to gravitate towards and so does Christopher Pike with the majority, if not all of his YA novels. It took me a long time to pick this up and actually finish it because of a review I had read somewhere a long while back that basically complained about the many details of deep sea diving and snorkeling. But I found that for me it just added to my interest in what was turning out to be a fairly good story with a mysterious plot and likeable characters. The only slight disappointment I had was with the tired and contrived buried treasure scenario and that the plot took on more of a whodunit murder mystery rather than supernatural forces at work kind of twist (with the exception of the ghost and nightmarish visions.) Pike has been known to get even more strange and weird the moment you think you know what's happening, like with some of his other books and a part of me wanted that in this. Like something that was somewhat Lovecraftian when dealing with the deep sea. But I digress, I was entertained with this and look forward to Pike's others I have in my collection.
April 2, 2012
Christopher Pike, I loved you when I was a pre-teen... and now I'm not sure why. The plot was decent but nothing spectacular but it was the characters who turned me off the most to this book. I'm starting to suspect that Pike just doesn't know how to write females because the first thirty pages of any of his novels seem to contain self centered monologues from the female character about how ugly they are and how they want a guy to notice them but they won't but hey, don't worry about it because by page fifty, a hunk will stumble in their path and then everything will be good for them. Oh, and that hunk? More than likely he's going to be the killer. That seems to be the plot of the Pike novels that I've been reading lately. Also, Pike has a tendency to have each girl struggle with her size 6 waist. Yes, females, especially teenagers, are constantly concerning themselves with body issues, but it had nothing to do with the plot of a horror novel. Move on Pike.
Bury Me Deep is at least an easy read but it's not heart pounding or jaw dropping like you would hope. I'd say skip this one and move on to the next.
Bury Me Deep is at least an easy read but it's not heart pounding or jaw dropping like you would hope. I'd say skip this one and move on to the next.
February 25, 2024
2 Stars
Mood: RBF
Music: Regulators - Warren G
It was everything it was meant to be. Cheesy, sterotypical, B-movie horror (??). More like some thrills; and I am sure if it were a movie, there would be a lot more blood.
What I thought this book would be, and what it actually was; were two different things. I thought I was getting murder and mayhem; a la Friday the 13th. Instead I got an adult version of Goosebumps.
Some high school girls, who are of legal age (🙄) go to Hawaii on Spring Break. Disbelief and hilarity ensue. I don't think that was the authors intent, but here we are.
I recommend Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice, by the same author. I read the first and it was actually pretty good.
January 5, 2023
I absolutely love Christopher Pike. I think at this point I've read all his books. I read everything as a teenager and often reread his work. This is one I don't think I've read since I was teen, and I only had vague memories of it. It's not his best book, but it's certainly not his worst.
The villain of the story was predictable, but that didn't bother me too much. The "big reveal" and the reasoning for their crimes irked me as they just didn't make much sense to me. But at least the main character thinks the same.
All in all, this was a decent Pike book and I'll likely reread it in the future as I'm a sucker for nostalgia. It's far from my favorite, but it's not my least favorite either. And hey, at least I came out of it feeling scuba-certified!
The villain of the story was predictable, but that didn't bother me too much. The "big reveal" and the reasoning for their crimes irked me as they just didn't make much sense to me. But at least the main character thinks the same.
All in all, this was a decent Pike book and I'll likely reread it in the future as I'm a sucker for nostalgia. It's far from my favorite, but it's not my least favorite either. And hey, at least I came out of it feeling scuba-certified!
September 17, 2018
god wtf mike
*hand gestures*
i vaguely remembered this book from when i first read it around age 12
i learned in extreme detail how to scuba dive
i predicted pretty early on what happened
i was actually really bored reading this and it was more of a fun joke to continue on and laugh at internally at some parts because of how ridiculous it was
but the part that explained a death was actually extremely sad and made me feel strange inside, felt too real.
overall i didn't hate this, it just was really slow and predictable
*hand gestures*
i vaguely remembered this book from when i first read it around age 12
i learned in extreme detail how to scuba dive
i predicted pretty early on what happened
i was actually really bored reading this and it was more of a fun joke to continue on and laugh at internally at some parts because of how ridiculous it was
but the part that explained a death was actually extremely sad and made me feel strange inside, felt too real.
overall i didn't hate this, it just was really slow and predictable
December 12, 2022
This was my first ever Christopher Pike book as a kid and I was delighted to see it released as a Kindle book finally. I excitedly read it to see if it lived up to the hype my mind created around it as a child and it definitely held its own. Oddly when I took scuba diving lessons I remembered this book and lots of the info was valid and stuck with me.
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