The Party (Final Friends 1): The Party

For the first two-thirds of the book, "The Party" follows a dozen or so Mesa and Tabb high school students as they get acquainted with one another, develop mad crushes on each other, and consequently get their hearts broken. All this drama finally cumulates on the night of Polly and Alice McCoy's party, when one of their peers commits suicide--or, at least, it appears to have been self-inflicted. The unsolved homicide/suicide mystery continues with the following two books: "The Dance" (#2) and "The Graduation" (#3)."The Party" does stretch for quite a bit without any major action, just character development and backstories. In fact, the suicidal party scene doesn't even occur until the last 60 pages of the book, and then quickly speeds by. I'm aware this is a trilogy, so the pace will be a bit slower, but it was a tad boring. Well, maybe not entirely boring, but I just expected more to happen than first dates and football games.On a good note, though, Pike's writing style is just as great as ever--funny and dramatic at parts (Bubba is definitely the comedy relief here. He's a bit crude, but still very amusing.)--, but this book is not as scary or suspenseful as some of his other books ("Fall into Darkness" is one that comes to mind). I still intend to read the other two books in this trilogy, though. Recommended to Pike fans, as well as teen mystery readers.

If you like R.L.Stine, then will LOVE Christpher Pike. In this seires, you go on a hunt to find a killer. but along the way you come across love and betrayal. Friends become enemys and enemys become your worst nightmare.

I have read lots of books that TRY to protray life, but some how it doesn't work. This book did though. The author made some real characters instead of phony ones and mixed them into a situation of whodunit. I thought this book was so excellent and I recommend it to anyone who is wanting a good (REAL GOOD) read. I thought all of the characters were made out to be real people and I appriciate the author for finally protraying life as a teenager. Need I say more?

At first when I started reading it. I thought it was going to be a boring book but then it got better. The best part of the book was at the end when Jessica, Sara, Polly, and Polly's younger sister decide to have a party. And it all ends up being that at the party people that weren't invited showed up and one of them died. I'll let you figure that out.

I have read the first book of the Final Friends trilogy (The Party) and it was brilliant. I can't wait until I read the other two in the series. It is awful not knowing who the killer is but I think Christopher Pike writes his books really well. I would recommend this book who likes mystery, horror and suspense. The charachters were very well portrayed, Micheal, Nick and Jessica were my favourite charachters. Polly was cool too and I liked Sara although she was cruel to Polly. Overall I really enjoyed it!