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A review by paulabrandon
Road to Nowhere by Christopher Pike
1.0
I read this because it is another Christopher Pike book that I haven't read yet that is due to be adapted as part of Netflix's The Midnight Club TV show.
I gave 4 stars to Witch and The Midnight Club, but this was a bit of a stinker! Like all good authors, Pike is entitled to fart out a few misfires, I suppose.
Teresa Chafey is running away from home after her boyfriend dumps her for her best friend. She picks up two hitchhikers, Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn. While driving to San Francisco, Teresa relates the story of how her relationship ended. Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn take turns telling Teresa the story of a couple named John and Candy, ill-fated lovers who never seemed to have things go right for them.
Both Teresa's story, and Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn's story, aren't all that interesting. The strong characterisation and emotional connections between characters usually found in Pike's work is absent here. I felt it was entirely too obvious what Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn's origins would be, even when it didn't make much sense for that to be the case, and no explanations were forthcoming. By the end, this was playing out like a bad, predictable episode of Touched By An Angel.
This really was quite terrible. Dull for the most part, predictable, and dare I say it, corny. It's a road to nowhere indeed. I can think of a dozen Pike books better suited to be adapted for the screen.
I gave 4 stars to Witch and The Midnight Club, but this was a bit of a stinker! Like all good authors, Pike is entitled to fart out a few misfires, I suppose.
Teresa Chafey is running away from home after her boyfriend dumps her for her best friend. She picks up two hitchhikers, Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn. While driving to San Francisco, Teresa relates the story of how her relationship ended. Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn take turns telling Teresa the story of a couple named John and Candy, ill-fated lovers who never seemed to have things go right for them.
Both Teresa's story, and Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn's story, aren't all that interesting. The strong characterisation and emotional connections between characters usually found in Pike's work is absent here. I felt it was entirely too obvious what Freedom Jack and Poppy Corn's origins would be, even when it didn't make much sense for that to be the case, and no explanations were forthcoming. By the end, this was playing out like a bad, predictable episode of Touched By An Angel.
This really was quite terrible. Dull for the most part, predictable, and dare I say it, corny. It's a road to nowhere indeed. I can think of a dozen Pike books better suited to be adapted for the screen.