Review Summaries

• Readers praise the driving mystery and the uneasy atmosphere of bullying and silence. The shifts in perspective pull readers in and keep the tension alive to the end.

Reviews

• Fantastic Book

  I read this book in my high school freshman English class back in 2010. My eldest stepdaughter just started middle school and I ordered a bunch of books I remembered reading for her. I decided to re-read the book before I gave it to her, and I’m happy I did. There are a few things in this book which aren’t exactly appropriate for a 6th grader, so she will have to wait a few years. This book is very well written and discusses topics such as prejudice, dysfunction families, teenage insecurities, slut shaming, child abuse, the deep impacts of bullying, and hidden depression. I am SO happy I decided to reread this book and can’t wait for my stepdaughter to read it (in a few years)

• Amazing

  The story had me from page to page. What would have made the story better if we had Chris own POV to really help us understand

• Highschool book

  This was my highschool book and i loved reading it. Its about time i can read it again.

• When The Lie Becomes More Important Than The Truth

  "This was the most dangerous kind of lying, it struck me, the kind that was happening to me now - where people need the lie so badly they become convinced the lie is true. It's dangerous because they can tell the lie with so much belief that it sounds like the truth, and they can make other people believe it." - Torey Adams Two years ago, before all of this began, Torey Adams was a different person, one of Steepleton High's elite. On the football team, in a band, dating the most beautiful girl in school - Torey was the perfect son of perfect parents living a perfect life in a perfect town. Tthat changed when Chris Creed disappeared. It's not like Torey and Chirs were friends, really. Chris didn't have any friends. He had been the class freak for as long as anyone could remember. He was just that kind of kid, weird and irritating and totally without social skills. Still, as Torey put it, "...when a kid sits behind you every day since kindergarten, sits across from you in Sunday school, belongs to your pool, annoys you in Cub Scouts, and throws a thousand balls over your head in Little League, you don't have to like him in order to love him." When Chris disappears, leaving behind only an ambiguous note that could signify either his suicide or running away, people in town - and particularly the kids who have known him all his life - are not terribly concerned. Unlike his popular friends, Torey doesn't see the humor in imagining Chris as a suicide and wondering how he did it and where his body will turn up. He's more concerned with the fact that none of them, not one person who had been going to school with Chris since kindergarten, noticed that he was troubled enough to run away or commit suicide. He accepts, when no one else will, that he and all of his classmates played a part in whatever it was that Chris decided to do. When ridiculous - and dangerous - rumors begin to swirl and everyone in town seems determined to point his or her finger at someone else, Torey becomes determined to uncover the truth. The Body of Christopher Creed is one of the very best examples of a psychological mystery/thriller that it has ever been my pleasure to read. As Torey's interest in Creed's disappearance spirals into obsession, he sees clearly how difficult it is for most people to take responsibility for their own actions in the wake of an event such as this. That difficulty leads many to bend the truth to fit their perceptions rather than to view the world as it really is and not as they would prefer it to be. The Body of Christopher Creed is one of those novels that hooks you from the beginning and then reels you in steadily as the tension ratchets ever tighter. This is a cleverly plotted, wonderfully written mystery that is sure to keep you guessing until the end.

• Amazing book.

  I absolutely loved this book and everything about it! I had to read it for a college class and it easily became an instant favorite in that class. The book makes you think and it does it in a thrilling way which I absolutely love. The story centers around Torey and after receiving a letter his fascination with Christopher Creed, a fellow student who has disappeared. All of the students have no idea if he simply ran away or committed suicide. This book does a fantastic job of looking a human nature and how we as people treat other people. How you should never be mean to someone because you honestly never know what they're through. Overall this book was amazing. It makes your heart hurt to see how mean children can actually be. How horrible it is that we don't care until something terrible happens. I loved this book because it's thrilling and deals with a very real topic. It even has a little hint of supernatural in it. Overall fantastic book!

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