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Episode 5: SLUMBER PARTY w/ guest David Sodergren (and Boris the Pug!) (Air Date: 11/26)
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Monster is by far the best & the gore-iest book we've read so far. Loves it.
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Check out our full thoughts of Monster on The PikeCast!
Monster episode will premiere on November 12!
You can find The PikeCast on both Spotify and Apple, along with:
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Patreon | Goodreads Group ...more
It's not Monster, it's me. A book about outer space vampires should have been way more exciting to read than it was. It's me, though. I'm pretty sure.
That said, this one starts off with a bang (several bangs, actually) and then stalls out with a really uncomfortable crush on a really strange guy, some Nam flashbacks, a teenage Hannibal Lector/Clarise Starling jail cell scene and ends up out on the res to speak to a "wise old Indian" stereotype who, from his death bed, is expected to solve a whi ...more
That said, this one starts off with a bang (several bangs, actually) and then stalls out with a really uncomfortable crush on a really strange guy, some Nam flashbacks, a teenage Hannibal Lector/Clarise Starling jail cell scene and ends up out on the res to speak to a "wise old Indian" stereotype who, from his death bed, is expected to solve a whi ...more
This book was seriously fucked up in the best way possible. Monster wasted no time getting started and maintained a breakneck speed the entire story. I was initially curious about reading it with the present day context of gun violence in mind, but that didn’t pan out beyond the first chapter. I liked the journey of Angela’s character from beginning to end, and I appreciated Pike’s unflinching approach to raising the stakes throughout. The plot itself wasn’t particularly twisted, but it kept me
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Alien vampires? Who like to eat meat? Weird Native American appropriation? A dog named Plastic? Lots of interesting ideas mashed together but he lost me in the end. And Christopher Pike puts himself in the book again as Kevin Christopher.
