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I thought that this was a REALLY good book. Rela's nobility and dedication literally made me tear up. The technical stuff got a tiny bit confusing, and was very unexpected, but I still liked it. However, I AM Catholic, so what Christopher was saying about people having no souls and the beginning of the world was ignored by me. I'm not kidding, I was bawling for Rela,


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The Eternal Enemy Christopher Pike 9780671745097 Books Reviews

Synopsis Rela is just a normal teenager who loves movies, popcorn, cookies and a boy named Christopher Perry. Rela buys a new VCR to watch some of her favorite movies, and programs it to record a monster movie for her at night. As soon as she gets the VCR, she starts having nightmares about laboratories and operations. Rela cannot figure out her dreams and decides to ignore them and focuses on throwing a party to invite Chris to get her to notice him. At the party, Rela puts in the tape that she had timed the VCR to record the monster movie in, but is disappointed to see only the news recorded. She immediately stops the tape and plays another movie. After the party is over, Rela puts in the tape of the news, and is shocked to see that it is actually the news of the following day. Rela notes down the scores of the game to test if the news is accurate, and it is.

At first, Rela has fun seeing the future before it actually happens, and times the VCR to record the news before going to sleep, even though her nightmares continue. However, things take a turn for the worse when she sees someone die a tragic death in the news. She wonders if she can change the course of the future by saving the person's life in time, but soon realizes that the change is not what she expected, and in attempting to do so, she soon sees herself murdered in the news. Can Rela stop the news from becoming true, by figuring out who is trying to kill her and why?

Review I thought this was a very interesting book to read, but it did have its ups and downs. When I first started reading it, I thought it was going to be a supernatural thriller of some sort. Keeping this in mind, I initially found the book to be a real page turner to find out how Rela's dreams correlated with the actions of the VCR, and what it all had to do with a strange person who was trying to end Rela's life. But then, the book suddenly took a turn from being a teenage supernatural thriller to a science-fiction story of man against machine. Even though I found hard to adjust to the sudden change in the story's setting, I still kept reading because I wanted to find out how the story ended. I am glad I did, because once the past story had been told and we came back to Rela's confrontation with the stranger, the climax was really exciting. I also felt that the story ended well, and it made me think of `what if' scenarios if Rela had done something different in her actions.

I also felt that Christopher Pike was paying homage to the Terminator movies, as the plot and the main character of the story became very similar to that of the Terminator movies. If I remember correctly, Rela also quotes from the Terminator movie at one point when she is talking with Chris, which I thought was cute.

For the most part, I enjoyed reading this book, except for some pages where it became too technical and science-fiction like for my taste. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching science-fiction movies and reading books in that genre, but I felt that the book suddenly just skipped pace rather than easing the reader into it. However, I did start enjoying the science fiction aspect once I got used to it, and overall, I found the book to be a very good read, and definitely another Christopher Pike story that I will not forget soon.
Pike has a tendency of going a bit beyond the cheese in his books and I think they may possibly transcend time better as a result but THE ETERNAL ENEMY, despite it being ultimately really good, was a bit much.

Rela (who sounds a lot like Sita in THE LAST VAMPIRE) throws down her savings on a new VCR (OMG HA!) only to find out it keeps taping the future. Not only that, the boy she has a major crush on seems to spark something in her that she can’t explain. He’s more important than he should be yet somehow familiar and she doesn’t know why.

I like what could have been with the plot had it been left alone. SPOILER ALERT Rela’s grandfather invents artificial intelligence designed to save man. That AI creates a better AI ad infinitum except that spirals out of control and humanity dies out as a result of good intentions. Rela, an AI with the ability to think herself back in time does just that in order to prevent all of that from happening. END SPOILER What somewhat ruins it is the nearly 40 pages of slogging infodump (in a 180 page book) explaining why and how everything happened. If you’ve ever read Pike’s SATI you’ll have seen this there as well with spiritual information but this was scientific and technical and I think went on far longer and I glazed over a lot of it. I got the gist but nothing more. It was just too much.

I give Pike a load of credit because it’s obvious he put a lot of thought into these books to make them more than just standard teen horror and without all of that exposition this would have been an insane book anyway, worthy of that effort. But it was too much. WAY too much. I could have lived with 20 pages but any more than that and you’ll get the glassy-eyed readers. I think it ruined what could have been a fantastic book.

Ignore that part (and you can, just skim Chapter 13 because most of it is unnecessary information anyway) it still is a great story. It’s a setting with a lot of character without the characters even being involved. With the overly tanned meathead at Circuit City (OMG) to it being in Pasadena and the party and all the kids it just felt very California to me. I mean I could FEEL it. And then once everything started happening it made it all come alive even more with the suspense and the thrills and the characters not knowing what’s going on and just generally being so REAL (if not a little wooden) that it sucks you in. It’s so unique a story that it’ll really stay with you.

Just ignore the sagging toward the ending. Seriously. It’s not necessary to enjoy the story. I’ve already forgotten most of it and I still really liked the book. So if you want something different in the old school YA horror world THE ETERNAL ENEMY is definitely it. It’s a bit creepy, full of suspense and you won’t want to put it down because it’s so damn intriguing.

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I thought that this was a REALLY good book. Rela's nobility and dedication literally made me tear up. The technical stuff got a tiny bit confusing, and was very unexpected, but I still liked it. However, I AM Catholic, so what Christopher was saying about people having no souls and the beginning of the world was ignored by me. I'm not kidding, I was bawling for Rela,