Evil Encounter

by Sonia Levitin

Book Overview

Almost immediately, Michelle was entranced by Luke, the handsome, charismatic leader of her therapy group. But on a weekend retreat, everything Michelle felt or thought abut Luke is shattered, and now... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689802161
• ISBN13: 9780689802164
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

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Michelle believes that her mom is the whole reason her parents divorced and she had to move to California and leave her dad behind. In one of her classes a teacher notices that she is acting weird and requests that she has professional help in the form of group therapy. In the beginning she does not want to go and she doesn't know why she has to, until she starts to have feelings for the groups' leader Luke. When she goes to his special seminar in an isolated Palm Springs villa she is scared, especially when he tells her to take peyote and when he tries to get "closer" to her. But later that night Luke is found dead in the hot tub. Later when Luke is revealed to be a fake and her mother is accused of being his lover and his murderer, Michelle realizes that she is the only one who can solve the crime and keep her mom out of jail. When the detectives find out that he was drugged she realizes that she was drugged to, and she wonders if she was the person meant to die. Later on she finds the mug that he had drank from that night and she knows that it was meant for him. Then she tricks morning into confessing and her mom gets out of jail.

Exciting Pageturner

It all begins innocently enough when 16-year-old Michelle begins to go to group therapy lessons after her parents' divorce. But Michelle never dreamt that she'd fall in love with the group's leader, Luke, and never thought that deception was behind all of his charisma and charm. It all comes to a head when Luke is mysteriously murdered and Michelle's mother, who is innocent, is the prime suspect. "Evil Encounter" is kind of an unsual book-we don't often see books that deal with these kind of issues. It really was a pageturner (as the title of my review says) and it never lacked excitement or drama. I always "just had" to read one more page. However, as the reviewer from Booklist said, there were a lot of subplots and other issues that should have either been explored more or simply left out (which would have made the book focues more on Michelle and Luke's relationship). Also, I thought Michelle could have been a little more "developed" as a character. I like it when books have sections that simply let you see the thoughts of the character, without only TELLING what they do. "Evil Encounter", despite these few flaws, is still a very exciting, unique, and thought-provoking book.

GREAT BOOK!

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK, IT BRINGS UP A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS, ALL VERY SERIOUS, AND THE AUTHOR HAS GREAT DESCRIPTIVE DETAIL. READ IT!

Great Mystery!

I loved how the writer made Michelle so brave and artistic. It was pretty cool how she solved that murder. But the ending was just alright. Everything turned out happy except I thought the ending was missing something. Like Michelle should of talked to her father about her feelings and her and her mom should of resolved things at the end. Besides that I liked the book and couldn't put it down.