The ridiculous over-wordiness of this blurb is spot on with the wordiness of the book itself.
But using the supernatural powers at her command, and risking her own life, plus the lives of her friends, Julia will find the answers to all these questions, at a terrible cost. She doesn’t know why the gunmen in her vision evokes such hatred in her, and why she feels she must destroy him at all costs. Or does he have to die? Julia doesn’t know if her vision of the future is set, or if it can be changed. He does not belong to her and he is supposed to die. Julia immediately falls for the guy, but it is an ill-fated love. Only later, when Julia attends a football game at school, does she meet the young man. What she sees is a vision of the future, a scene in which a young man she doesn’t know is shot in a hold-up and dies in her arms. Unfortunately, almost by accident, Julia does so. But before Julia’s mother died, she warned her daughter never to look in the water that had moonlight shining on it. She comes from a tradition of witches, of good witches. She can also know things that are happening in far off places when she looks in water that has sunlight shining on it. She has the ability to heal people with her touch.
Julia is a young woman with extraordinary powers. But there’s no doubt he at least tried to insert some depth into these schlock teen horror novels of the 90s. But that’s putting him a bit high up there, isn’t it? Sometimes he overwrites, sometimes his stories are just outright ridiculous. He is the literary horror to RL Stine’s gore porn/B-movie-type novels.
Christopher Pike is a prolific writer of teen horror-ish novels, with a few sprinkled in there for adults.
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