Or, with very minor tweaking, they could prove far more integral to the plot. With very minor tweaking, neither Rak nor Govinda need exist. Readers are flung around the globe to drown in this exposition and follow characters who ultimately bring nothing to the story. Either way, I’m not sure that a full chapter of exposition on chakras (while interesting) was vital to the conveyance of the story. Maybe all the stories he mentioned are based in legend. I remember Pike’s love of Hinduism from The Last Vampire books but I feel like he’s struggling to make it work in this novel. However, with many characters flitting in and out of the pages, and with their introductions jumping between past and present so frequently, getting a snapshot of their entire life seems unnecessary. Pike has a knack for bringing a character to life with one descriptive paragraph. I don’t think it’s because I’m more familiar with his YA novels than the adult ones I have no trouble imagining this story with younger characters and I still don’t think I’d like it.įor me, the issue is with the pacing. Unfortunately The Cold One is not my cup of tea.
The YA section at the back of my local library was filled with his works. I remember reading and enjoying a lot of Christopher Pike’s books when I was younger.
Soon the soul of the world will have cause to shudder in a cold sweat of total terror … The horrific key to this gruesome mystery lies in a remote Himalayan hiding place. The Cold One is a story of inexorably mounting supernatural terror in which an ages-old evil from the East awakes to infect the modern world with a plague of psychic vampirism and murder.īeginning in a small Midwestern clinic for comatose patients, the story moves to California, where a mysterious outbreak of serial killings (in which some victims have simply dropped dead for no obvious reason while others have been literally ripped to pieces) is perplexing the police.
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