'The Midnight Club' by Christopher Pike is a poignant and touching story set in a hospice for teenagers facing terminal illnesses. The book explores themes of friendship, love, mortality, and the importance of coming to terms with death through the lens of a group of teens who gather at midnight to share stories. The writing style is engaging, focusing on character development and relationships rather than traditional plot progression, with elements of reincarnation and past lives woven into the narrative.
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Content warnings for The Midnight Club include discussions of terminal illness, death, teenage sexuality, LGBTQ+ themes, and existential reflections on mortality.
Has Romance?
While The Midnight Club contains elements of romance, particularly through Ilonka and Kevin's relationship, it is not the central focus of the narrative.
From The Publisher:
From the author of The Wicked Heart and The Immortal comes a beautiful and haunting novel about a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality.
Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people-a place where teenages with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure.
Every night at twelve, a group of five young girls and boys at the hospice came together. They called themselves the Midnight Club, and everytime they came together, they would take turns telling each other stories. Any type of story they could think of, they would tell-ones filled with intrigue and horror, of life and death… True stories, made-up stories, and stories that fell somewhere in between.
But one night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, the five kids make a pact with each other. The first one who dies is to make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave…
Then one of them does die, and the story begins.
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About the Author:
Christopher Pike is a bestselling author of young adult novels. The Thirst series, The Secret of Ka, and the Remember Me and Alosha trilogies are some of his favorite titles. He is also the author of several adult novels, including Sati and The Season of Passage. Pike currently lives in Santa Barbara, where it is rumored he never leaves his house. But he can be found online at Facebook.com/ChristopherPikeBooks.
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