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Following Christopher Creed

(Steepleton Chronicles #2)

Carol Plum-Ucci

3.87 · Rating details · 430 ratings · 84 reviews

Years later . . . what really happened to Christopher Creed?When Torey Adams posts on his blog that a body has been found in Steepleton—four years after Christopher Creed disappeared—college reporter Mike Mavic sells his laptop and hops a plane to capture the story that will undoubtedly launch his journalistic career. But what Mike finds is a town suffering under a cloud o ...more

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Oct 27, 2011 Gina rated it really liked it

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Aug 10, 2011 Karen Keyte rated it really liked it

Shelves: teen-boys-adventure-mystery, teen-boys-realistic

It’s been five years since Christopher Creed disappeared, four since Torey Adams launched his website, ChrisCreed.com, in an attempt to make sense of the the way his classmate vanished into thin air. Five years - and not a single, solitary trace of Chris Creed has ever been found. Then Torey posts a new message on his website: a body has been discovered in the woods outside of Steepleton.

Mike Mavic, a legally blind college reporter who sees more than most, has been a huge fan of ChrisCreed.com f It’s been five years since Christopher Creed disappeared, four since Torey Adams launched his website, ChrisCreed.com, in an attempt to make sense of the the way his classmate vanished into thin air. Five years - and not a single, solitary trace of Chris Creed has ever been found. Then Torey posts a new message on his website: a body has been discovered in the woods outside of Steepleton.

Mike Mavic, a legally blind college reporter who sees more than most, has been a huge fan of ChrisCreed.com from the beginning. Chris’s story, told with both sympathy and honesty by Adams, is not so very different from his own - right down to the domineering and obsessively controlling mother. When he reads Torey’s latest post, Mike knows he has to get to Steepleton. Here is his chance to uncover a story that could well and truly launch his career as a journalist. More than that, he can face his own demons - but do it from a step removed by telling Chris Creed’s tale instead of his own. Determined to get to the root of the Creed disappearance, Mike sells his laptop and buys a plane ticket for New Jersey.

When he arrives in town, Mike learns two things right away. The first is that the body in the woods is not Christopher Creed’s, but that doesn’t necessarily kill his story. Because the second thing Mike discovers is that Steepleton has been living under a cloud of bad luck and ill feelings ever since Creed disappeared. To the current crop of high school kids, Chris Creed’s vanishing act is just another local legend - something from the past that doesn’t mean anything important to them, with one exception. Chris Creed’s brother Justin, now a high school student himself, has recently become obsessed with his brother’s vanishing act. Deeply troubled and falling quickly into drug addiction, Justin teeters on the edge of mental catastrophe. As he travels about Steepleton completing his interviews, Mike struggles to hang on to his journalistic objectivity and still find a way to help Justin learn what happened to Christopher Creed.

I loved The Body of Christopher Creed, so a sequel written along the same lines - a psychological mystery powered by an ever-increasing thread of tension - would have hard time living up to the standard that the first book set. But while Following Christopher Creed is undoubtedly another top-flight psychological mystery, it is also markedly different from its predecessor in some respects. Where the first novel was more like a cable being wound ever tighter, this sequel is that same cable as it frays and then comes steadily unwound. It is the unraveling of kinks and knots that leads to a central core of truth.

The Body of Christopher Creed was essentially two stories, a pair of excellent, intricate character studies. The life of Christopher Creed was revealed in absentia and the reader watched Torey Adams in the present as his relentless quest for the truth gradually alienated him from most of the other residents of Steepleton. Following Christopher Creed is also built around two stories. It’s about the events that have lead to Justin Creed’s slide toward drug abuse and mental illness since his brother’s disappearance and also about Mike Mavic’s journey toward making peace with his own difficult past. As with the first novel, Ms. Plum-Ucci has used prose, plot and pacing here brilliantly to hook the reader from the first scene and keep him or her feverishly turning pages until the very end.

Note: It is not strictly necessary to have read The Body of Christopher Creed before you read Following Christopher Creed (although you should, because it is amazing). Where information fro the first book is needed, Ms. Plum-Ucci has made clever use of Mavic’s exhaustive knowledge of the contents of ChrisCreed.com to fill in the necessary background. ...more

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Sep 24, 2011 Rich Stoehr rated it really liked it

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If you're a reader like me, you probably finished The Body of Christopher Creed feeling like it finished well. Mysteries remained, but the story was over as far as we were concerned. If you're like me, you were probably at least a little surprised to see Following Christopher Creed on the shelf, a sequel to the story that didn't seem to need a sequel.

And if you're a reader like me, you're intrigued anyway.

Following Christopher Creed picks up four years after the events of Christopher Creed's sti If you're a reader like me, you probably finished The Body of Christopher Creed feeling like it finished well. Mysteries remained, but the story was over as far as we were concerned. If you're like me, you were probably at least a little surprised to see Following Christopher Creed on the shelf, a sequel to the story that didn't seem to need a sequel.

And if you're a reader like me, you're intrigued anyway.

Following Christopher Creed picks up four years after the events of Christopher Creed's still-unsolved disappearance, with Mike Mavic. Mike is a hopeful college reporter investigating a recently-found dead body, thinking it might be that of the long-lost teen. Mike is also nearly blind, and dealing with some pretty severe trauma of his own. With the help of his girlfriend, he meditates and struggles through his many boundaries using the power of positive thinking and concentration.

If you're a reader like me, here's where you'll start to wonder how some of this is relevant. Mike's story sometimes veers off into long discussions about quantum thought and bad frequency, and while many familiar characters appear in these pages, they seem sidelined somehow. It ends up being important to the ending, and (I think) to the point of the story - but even so, the book drags some in the middle, due largely to the perspective of its narrator, seeing in the shadows and questioning everything. To be honest, it was a struggle to get through some of this.

But, if you're a reader like me, you'll see a glimmer of potential there in those shadows. And I'm happy to say that in this case, the potential pans out into a pitch-perfect ending that made this reader want to read it all over again to see how that trick was pulled off. I really did go back to read a few key passages to see what I missed, how I didn't see it. But the truth is simple - I didn't see it because Carol Plum-Ucci didn't want me to.

Following Christopher Creed may look like an unnecessary sequel there on the shelf, or it may read at times like an irrelevant side-trip in the story of Christopher Creed. Trust me on this: it's neither. Perhaps you'll see the ending coming. I didn't - and for a reader like me, an ending that can surprise and delight and satisfy as this one did makes it all worth it. ...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Alisha Marie rated it it was ok

Shelves: young-adult, arc-s, mystery

I remember reading The Body of Christopher Creed in high school and LOVING it because it was just so creepy. It was a well-done psychological thriller. And it was my first (psychological thriller, that is), so automatically it has a soft spot in my heart. When I first heard of Following Christopher Creed, I was a bit put-off. The Body of Christopher Creed was so amazing that I feel that it didn't need a sequel. And, unfortunately, I was right. Following Christopher Creed never lives up to the br I remember reading The Body of Christopher Creed in high school and LOVING it because it was just so creepy. It was a well-done psychological thriller. And it was my first (psychological thriller, that is), so automatically it has a soft spot in my heart. When I first heard of Following Christopher Creed, I was a bit put-off. The Body of Christopher Creed was so amazing that I feel that it didn't need a sequel. And, unfortunately, I was right. Following Christopher Creed never lives up to the brilliance that is its predecessor.

Following Christopher Creed was, most of the time, a bloated, boring book. Sure, some interesting things happened here and there, but reading most of the book was tedious. I also found the characters in The Body of Christopher Creed more developed and therefore more intriguing. While I did like Mike and RayAnn, I never got a clear reading of them, particularly when it comes to Mike. Now maybe this was the author's intention, but it made me feel very disconnected to Mike. Revisiting with the characters of the previous novel was pretty cool, but that only lasted for a few chapters.

Another thing I didn't understand was why the author built up this side-plot at the beginning with Steepleton having bad karma, yet never elaborated on it. I thought that should've been the focus Following Christopher Creed. What makes Steepleton tick? Why is it that while most towns see change, Steepleton remains the same and never evolves? She brings up these questions, but answers are never forthcoming. Normally, the lack of answers doesn't really tend to bother me, but I guess I was latching on to the Steepleton theory because it was really the only thing in Following Christopher Creed that intrigued me. I found the rest meh.

So, two stars for the ending which I really did NOT see coming (but really should have. I think I'm off my game) and for some moments of interest. But really, I found Following Christopher Creed to be an unnecessary sequel that never reaches the awesomeness that was The Body of Christopher Creed, let alone surpasses it. ...more

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Sep 03, 2014 Lily Hayes rated it really liked it

This book is a thrilling adventure following Mike Mavic, a visually-challenged college newspaper reporter, as he goes into the search 4 years after the disappearance of Christopher Creed in Steepleton, New Jersey. I liked how they kept it in Mike's perspective throughout the book. And how the author created an event to bring the original characters back into play. I loved that the book would make you have to go back and read over it to make sure you were not just thinking they had said somethin ...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Ashley rated it it was ok

I remembered absolutely loving "The Body of Christopher Creed" and not being able to put it down. When I found "Following Christopher Creed" I was beyond excited. I started by re-reading "The Body of Christopher Creed" this morning, and read "Following Christopher Creed" right after. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with the latter. To me, "Following Christopher Creed" was drawn out up until around the last 20 pages or so. Only then, did I develop any sort of appreciation for how the novel had ...more

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Oct 21, 2011 Shannon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I loved the first book The Body of Christopher Creed, naturally I was surprised as well as ecstatic when I found out Plum-Ucci was writing a fallow-up novel.
I couldn't find the book so I got it on audible and put it on my ipod. Loved it! In the beginning I had a lot of questions about why she would choose to write about a character not in the original book, but by the end it all made sense. If you liked the first one I strongly suggest you read the second. ...more

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May 26, 2012 Sarah Sullivan rated it it was ok

Shelves: young-adult

I really liked The Body of Christopher Creed when I first read it, and I really didn't care for this one. I'm not sure if it's a weaker book or I'm just a different reader, to be honest. It might be the difference between being a high school reader and an adult reader, but I was way less interested in the protagonist, and had some real issues with the depiction of women. The twist at the end though was satisfying, and I didn't see it coming until right before it happened. ...more

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Jul 14, 2012 Alicia rated it did not like it

Shelves: mystery-thriller, abuse, male, magical, series

This sequel certainly wasn't necessary. And after I began reading about Mike, I wasn't convinced that this book would go anywhere, and it didn't. I'm glad that I skipped the middle 250 pages of this unnecessarily long book to FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO Christopher Creed! I wasn't particularly surprised at the twist that Mike is Chris, and I have no problem giving it away now because everyone should be satisfied with the first book and ignore this sequel. ...more

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Dec 19, 2012 Nina ✿ Looseleaf Reviews ✿ marked it as to-read

Shelves: next-in-series

I never realized that The Body of Christopher Creed had a sequel. Christopher Creed doesn't particularly stand out in my mind, but I love Streams of Babel and sequel, so I'll give this a shot. ...more

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May 17, 2020 Rowan rated it it was amazing

Listened to this on audio for a long car ride and it had many twists! Great mystery! Highly recommended!

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Jul 18, 2014 Raghav rated it liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read "The Body of Christopher Creed" before reading this one and truly enjoyed it, although I didn't realize at the time that it was one of two. I was of course pleasantly surprised when I discovered that there was indeed a second book that supposedly answered the questions raised in the first, but a little disappointed when I realized it was being told through the eyes of a completely new character.

I will admit that I cheated and looked in the back to see whether Chris was ever found, when I I read "The Body of Christopher Creed" before reading this one and truly enjoyed it, although I didn't realize at the time that it was one of two. I was of course pleasantly surprised when I discovered that there was indeed a second book that supposedly answered the questions raised in the first, but a little disappointed when I realized it was being told through the eyes of a completely new character.

I will admit that I cheated and looked in the back to see whether Chris was ever found, when I realized that Mike and Chris are the same person, I returned to where I had been reading feeling extremely confused because I definitely did not see that twist coming. Finishing the book made the whole thing a little less confusing when I realized that Mike had simply lied about his past to RayAnn, but it still left me with too many questions for me to give this book the 5 it would have gotten otherwise. For example, why was Mike so obsessed with learning about Chris that he started following Torey's website? He presumably went to New Jersey to determine whether the body found was that of Chris, but since he is indeed Chris, shouldn't he obviously know that the body belongs to someone else? And how does Justin hang around his older brother for so many days without even realizing who he was? What was up with the psychic aunt? She obviously could tell that Chris was alive, and knew that he went to Torey's concert, but then she said that Chris could "see the forest and the full moon" while she was speaking, but how is that possible if Chris was standing right in front of her? If nothing else, shouldn't the psychic at least have been able to see who he really was? Mother Creed apparently recognized her oldest son when he visited with Justin while she was drunk, but not when he was with RayAnn in the forest?

Maybe I am being too critical because the book overall wasn't too bad (albeit these plot holes and perhaps being a little too slow at times). If I could award fractional stars, it would probably be closer to 3.5 but since its not quite a 4, I will make do with only 3. ...more

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Nov 29, 2015 Petty Lisbon rated it liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 3.5
This book got too long winded for me at parts. First of all, what kind of quack sequel has the nerve to be longer than the predecessor? Why did readers need to learn so much about quantum thinking and limestones?
There were some other parts that annoyed me. On page 352, Plum-Ucci calls animals crackers RayAnn's favorite fruit. Torey gets called Torey and Adams interchangeably, and Bo speaks with more Southern lingo than in the first book (although maybe I forgot how he talked, as I read it in 3.5
This book got too long winded for me at parts. First of all, what kind of quack sequel has the nerve to be longer than the predecessor? Why did readers need to learn so much about quantum thinking and limestones?
There were some other parts that annoyed me. On page 352, Plum-Ucci calls animals crackers RayAnn's favorite fruit. Torey gets called Torey and Adams interchangeably, and Bo speaks with more Southern lingo than in the first book (although maybe I forgot how he talked, as I read it in 2011).
I was sad when I finished the first book, with that non ending. But when I started reading this book, I wasn't sure it needed a sequel anymore. It picked up quickly, with some interesting insight on newish characters, like Justin, and others that were one note video game sidekicks that just show up to give relevant advice and leave, like RayAnn. I was annoyed at Mike by the end for his exploitation of everyone else's stress, and when Justin was ranting on his coke binge in the Pine Barrens, I thought Mike should've just call it a day and give up and cover basketball games like any other budding college journalism student. But that plot twist! Wow. I definitely didn't think Mike would turn out to be Chris, even if I picked up on the fact that Chris's middle name was Mike. It makes sense, with how he idolized Torey and his crew. I don't really know how it's gonna work out in the long run- will Chris be called Chris from now on? How will his family react? But it definitely was exciting. While I feel like she tried capturing the magic of classism one more time, the author had a hard time making me invested for Darla and everyone else. I guess it's good to know that, just like my 11th grade book club members told me, Chris Creed is alive and well, even if he's stalking Torey and the gang now.
Maybe this book is about nostalgia? You can't go back to something you left behind without cleaning up its mess. That's how I feel after reading this, anyway.

And if Carol Plum-Ucci ever reads this, I thank you personally that you didn't make us read descriptions about Torey practicing music, what kind of music he practices, and so on, to the extent that other novels do. ...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Susanna rated it really liked it

Shelves: realistic-fiction

I absolutely loved The Body of Christopher Creed and it's gone down as one of my all-time favorite books. But as it's a coming-of-age novel that comments on both society (to take a large-scale view) and high school bullying (to take a smaller-scale view), I was doubtful as to how good a sequel would be. Novels of The Body's caliber and scope don't usually have sequels. Following Christopher Creed turned out to be decent. If not for the ending, though, it wouldn't have come anywhere near wowing m ...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Claire rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: highschool and up

Shelves: guys-read, bullying, high-school-and-beyond, first-person-narrator-all-ages, grief

I loved the Body of Christopher Creed, so when I saw this title pop up I grabbed it.

It is a narrated by Mike- a budding journalist. (Yeah! a young person pursuing journalism- I really hope there is a job for him.) Mike attends Randolph College where he became legally blind when he was hit with a baseball pitch. He can sort of see some things as long as he is not stressed or moves his head too quickly he has to protect his eyes with dark sunglasses and uses a service dog.

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Oct 09, 2013 Fiction_TheNewReality rated it it was amazing

I loved this book. Such an amazing sequel.

Synopsis: Years later . . . what really happened to Christopher Creed? When Torey Adams posts on his blog that a body has been found in Steepleton—four years after Christopher Creed disappeared—college reporter Mike Mavic sells his laptop and hops a plane to capture the story that will undoubtedly launch his journalistic career. But what Mike finds is a town suffering under a cloud of bad frequency and people with an underlying streak of meanness. To the ...more

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Nov 09, 2012 Bryn rated it really liked it

The thing I love most about all Plum-Ucci's novels is this underlying theme: Examine the unexamined truths of your life. No matter what the plot line is, she always asks of her readers (and puts her characters through hell in order) to understand the whys and seek truth as separated from popular opinion. It's why I can't really classify any of her stories as psychological thrillers, though they also are that. It's just that they're also so much more to me.

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May 31, 2015 Cassandra Hsiao rated it it was amazing

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This is one of those rare instances where the sequel lives up to the standard of the first book. Written by Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed tells the story of what happens four years after the events in The Body of Christopher Creed, in which the weird kid in the town of Steepleton suddenly disappeared without a trace. Now, Mike Mavic, a budding journalist, visits the town after hearing about the recent discovery of a dead body. He hopes to write a story on wh ...more

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Sep 29, 2011 Julia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: best-books-i-read-in-2011, contemporary-fiction, ya, mystery, school-violence-bullying

Christopher Creed was bullied unmercifully in his hometown of Steepleton, NJ and his drunken, overbearing mother made his miserable life worse. He mysteriously disappeared four years ago and now Make Mavic, a college journalism major has appeared and so has a body in the woods. Mike and the rest of the world has found all about Chris Creed on Chriscreed.com a website dedicated to Creed and maintained by up and coming musician and singer/ songwriter Torey Adams. (Adams was the POV character in Th ...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Ms. Yingling rated it it was ok

College reported Mike Mavic has been following the disappearance of Christopher Creed and the developments in the case on the blog of a local who was a rock star. When a body is found in Steepleton, Mike and another reporter, RayAnn, he goes to Steepleton to try to get a story. There are lots of wrinkles-- the body ends up being the sister of a boy involved tangentially in the original case, Christopher's brother is thought missing but later turns up in rehab, there is a weird natural phenomenon ...more

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Jan 31, 2015 Amber rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2015

I read The Body of Christopher Creed in 2004 at the recommendation of my 6th grade English teacher and it quickly became one of my favorites, and still is to this day.

Browsing the Kindle store yesterday I learned that there was a sequel, so naturally I had to read it. The result? Resounding disappointment.

One of my favorite things of The Body of Christopher Creed was that the ending was left fairly open to interpretation. My teacher told me that "at the end of this book, you know in your heart ...more

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Apr 22, 2011 Jackie rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery-suspense-and-noir, i-love-you-ya-ya-ya

I have hesitated to write this review for a while. because I honestly wasn't sure what I would say.

This was simultaneously a very satisfying (harkening back to childhood, wrapping up some loose ends, creating others, revisiting great characters) and very frustrating (slow beginning-and-middle, unstable plot arc, dull secondary characters, slightly off teenager-speak, uneven writing) experience. Overall, I am glad I read it, but I wish we could have had more Ali and Bo and Torey, because they wer ...more

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Aug 11, 2011 Zoe Elizabeth rated it really liked it

I probably should have reread the first book. There wasn't a whole lot of recapping, so I was a little fuzzy on some of the details of the first book since it had been at least five years since I had read it. That being said, I was inclined to give the book three stars until I got to the very end. It was enticing, but i wasn't big on any of the characters. I found Mike to be rather obnoxious, to be honest. However, the twist that came at the end won me over. So if you're a fan of the first novel ...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Mokamonkey rated it liked it

Shelves: teen-books

The original book was suspenseful and addicting, but this one lacked a little something. While I did want to keep reading to find out what would happen, there were too many extraneous unexciting bits that dragged the story down. Actually, I think if they removed all of the quantum thought bits, it would have been fine. Or maybe made those bits more intriguing and less instructive? My 3 is really more like a 3.5. And lastly, I totally guessed the twist at the end about half way through the book. ...more

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Apr 20, 2018 Donna Rogers rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult-books

Wow, this book totally blew me away. I'm a librarian and have read thousands of books in my lifetime, but I can honestly say, it's been a very long time since I've actually yelled, "OH MY GOD!!!" out loud when I realized what this author had done!! lol I was totally caught by surprise, and that is the best kind of mystery. I have a feeling these two books (#1 The Body of Christopher Creed) are vastly under-appreciated. They are excellent mysteries. I see that she's calling this book #2, so I'm w ...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Rachel W rated it really liked it

i realy loved this book. part of the middle of the story got a bit boring, and some of it i could have done without, but i loved the twist ending. usualy i see that sort of thing comming before it happens in a story, but this one caught me off guard. i didn't realy like all the stuff about justin's problems, i thought it went into it a bit to much there, but i loved hearing about the suicide and how justin related to it. overall, i think this was a very good book and i loved the mystery of what ...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Jaq rated it really liked it

I may or may not have read the first book in this series, although it's not necessary for this book to make sense.
It did take awhile for me to get into this book, and the only motivator was "something has to happen soon that will hook me". While that moment never happened, I was glad I read the entire book. Once you get to the last half of the last chapter there is a "Whoa." moment that had me a bit off kilter for awhile after finishing. I quite liked it, although I'm sure there are people out t ...more

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Sep 09, 2013 Lupita rated it it was ok

This is more like a 2.5*. I would advise people who read The Body of Christopher Creed that this is more like a companion novel than a sequel. I had a hard time staying with the story and it didn't intrigue me enough to keep reading. It just didn't keep my attention. It would have been better had it been shorter, cut out the unnecessary bits, given us the twist at the end and been touted as a novella. ...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Samantha rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, teen-contemporary

At first, I was considering giving this book a 3 star rating, but then I got to the last 10 pages and it threw me for such a loop that it caused me to reevaluate the entire novel. Carol Plum-Ucci has written a worthy follow up to The Body of Christopher Creed, and one that I'm thinking I'll read again. ...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Haley rated it it was ok

Shelves: can-review, true-to-life, young-adult-lit

Though long-awaited and eagerly-desired by fans, Following Christopher Creed falls far short of its predecessor. While Plum-Ucci’s writing style has improved, her characterization, plot, and message seem half-baked, leaving the reader hungry. Overall, it is a typical, disappointing sequel.

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Carol Plum-Ucci is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci’s most famous work to date is The Body of Christopher Creed, for which she won a Michael L. Printz Award in 2002 and was named a finalist to the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Describing her subjects as "the most common, timeless, and most heart-felt teenagers," Plum-Ucci is widely recognized for her use of the South Jersey shore to set sce ...more