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Although no body or witnesses have been produced, Sharon McKay stands accused of murdering her best friend, and she must prove that the troubled teen committed suicide or else go to jail. Book available. ... Read more Customer Reviews (47) 
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Childhood favorite
At ten, I was a voracious reader who often complained about the mystery books geared for kids my age. I usually figured the endings out very early on, which deflates the entire story, no matter how well developed the characters are.
I had an uncle with a similar passion for books; we often read together. He was a huge fan of mystery, especially Stephen King, and he harbored a hope that Christopher Pike would help prepare me for King's work when I was older. He found out about Christopher Pike from one of our public librarians and, that winter, when a bad case of strep throat kept me home from school, he promptly went to the bookstore and purchased this book.
I fell in love with the author immediately - because I couldn't guess the ending to this book. I was so blown away that I immediately spent most of my allowance on purchasing other books by Pike.
How can you people think this book is good?!?
I have never read Christopher Pike, so I don't know if all of his books are this stupid, but this is by far the worst book I've ever read!!!!!!! First, there's this really sweet Chad kid, but by the end of the book, he gets a personality transplant...I don't know if I read the same book as you, but if I did, whoever put "best ending ever" as their title has some serious issues. How is "can't stop pushing your friends off these cliffs, can you bitch" a good ending? Other people I know at all different age ranges agree with me that this book is totally weird. I mean sure, if you love blood and gore and skipped over the seriously stupid plot and just read the disgusting parts, maybe you might have found it ok...that is if you were in an excellent mood, it was your birthday, and you just won $1,000,000,000, but even then, it would still be stretching it to call it "ok". If you are thinking of reading this book, 1 word for you: DON'T! You will hate it! Don't condemn yourself to it! Its disgusting and stupid!If you want a good book to read, read the Twilight series, but NOT Fall into Darkness. Honestly. I suffered through reading it, and right now I am trying to save you from going through such torture. You people say that it was some work of art how he kept changing the plot, but wake up and smell the roses, everyone. Its a bad book by a bad author who kept contradicting himself. I don't know about you, but I think you should be able to pick up a random book with an interesting sounding back without having to read that!!! Christopher Pike should be thanking me profusely that I even gave it one star, and not zero. If I could be sure that the computer wouldn't just assume I forgot to rate it and wouldn't show the zero stars, I definatly would have given it a zero. But since I didn't put a zero on the stars, here it is for you now. A big, fat, ZERO!
If you don't think that is the dumbest thing on earth, you seriously need to see a doctor.
...So, last warning, everyone. Unless you are an insane creepy person like the other people who wrote positive reviews of this book, trust me you don't want to read Fall into Darkness. As for Christopher Pike, I'm sorry, but I'll never read another of your books...and I think maybe you should consider taking Fall into Darkness off the market.
Totally not for me
All right, this book really sucked. It started out as good for me but eventually, I got bored with the plot and it was really easy to figure out who the killer was.
One of my favorite nostalgic Pike books
Sharon is accused of killing her best friend Ann.Three witnesses heard everything, though they didn't see it.They heard Ann scream at Sharon, and then they heard her fall over the edge of a cliff.Her body has not been found, but they know she must be dead and the only logical conclusion is that Sharon killed her.But Sharon knows she didn't do it.So why did Ann scream like that?Did she commit suicide?Or was it revenge?
This is the basic premise, though by chapter two, you know what's going on.The book isn't about the question of why Ann did what she did.It's about a friendship gone wrong.It's about grief.It's about loss. It's about revenge. But mainly it's about obsession and how it destroys.
This book is a bit of a retread of Gimme a Kiss.That being said, I think it's a good story in its own right.I think Pike took the basic premise of GAK and improved on it.
There might be parts of the story that strain at credibility, but nothing that would really take away from the pleasure of reading it.
As for the characters, I did feel invested in them.Sharon had a lot of personality.I also enjoyed reading Ann's point of view.Ann is a bitter, nasty person but I really felt for her.She seemed so lonely and I felt so sorry for her.She was a more sympathetic character than Jane in Gimme a Kiss.
The bottom line is that it's a good read if you're 13 and into these kinds of books.
The one thing I felt was lacking was more depth in regards to some of the major characters.I felt like I never got a sense of who Jerry was when he was alive.Well, not enough of a sense of him.I didn't really know much about what his relationship was like with Ann before he died, and therefore, whether or not she blamed herself for his death.Even though he wasn't technically in the book, his was a constant presence. So I wanted to know more about him. That's about all I can think of.
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