However after a few twists a turns it turned it kept my interest and turned in to quite a fun read. I will admit that it started out as a typical teenage read (I guess back in the 90s when it was published YA was not even heard of). Well either way I picked up the book and 122 pages later I had finished it. This book is from a number of books by Christopher Pike someone no longer wants and thought I might be able to find a home for (I help out at charity book stores from time to time). I am sure when you are around a lot of books there comes a time when you see a title (either in a shop or on someones desk or even in my case where I have books donated to me - thats another story) which you would never have normally chosen to read - today it was Gimme A Kiss. Okay I will admit that this was not a book I planned on reading but hey it surprised me and so I think it deserves a mention. If only this novel actively challenged the sexual double standard, instead it is a cautionary tale about Herpes and sexual repression and gives many good reasons for why you should not attempt to flee a burning building in a scuba diving wetsuit. 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.

Gimme a kiss pike