Moral of the story: Do not wear hoop earrings or purple lipstick. Of course, a person with any sort of taste would not wear purple "Midnight Wine" lipstick to begin with.Prime Suspects: Delia, Karina, Delia's sister SarahPlot: Delia Easton and Karina Frye have always been in constant competition. Right now they are competing for the prestigious Conklin Award - and the love of douchebag Vincent Milano (he of the "trademark" smile). Since I've been reading Sweet Valley for some time now, I feel some similar themes running through each series (and super craptastic writing, though Fear Street really does take the cake. Probably because it wasn't ghostwritten). For instance, there is always a sociopath running amok. In this book it seems like everyone is a whacko in some respect, but, of course, they had to make it seem as though everyone was guilty. Personally, I think Delia Easton's biggest crime is wearing purple lipstick with an all-red outfit (and she wants to win the award to get into an NYC fashion school. Snort.) Delia is pretty useless. She is the Elizabeth Wakefield of Shadyside High (Shadyside... did Eminem attend here?). Karina Frye is much more like Jessica Wakefield: perennially beautiful and good at absolutely everything. Also determined as fuck. Always in love with douchebags. The usual.The other major player is Delia's sister Sarah who gets in petty fights with her and even ends up kissing Vincent at one point (this dude is a pedophile in training. I don't miss him). Deaths: Only one - Vincent. I was surprised. Plenty of threats, however. Plenty of proclamations of innocence as well, but that's nothing new.Whodunnit: Karina is the biggest suspect throughout most of the book. In the beginning (after catching Vincent the Douche and Delia together), she literally assaults Delia in the gym or something and basically rips Delia's hoop earring from her earlobe (freaking ouch! and exactly why I don't wear them). At one point Delia and Karina call a truce, but Delia sees her kissing Vincent again and gives that idea up pretty quickly. Delia constantly finds her work for the Conklin Award sabotaged, and she admits that she cannot prove that Karina is at fault. Had I not flipped to the end in the beginning, I would have suspected Delia's sister Sarah, who stares at her sinisterly and threatens her many times (due to these petty fights and her schoolgirl crush on Vincent). When Vincent's birthday party is held, we find that Delia arrives late claiming to have been assaulted (again) in Karina's home before the party. The next morning Vincent turns up dead in the abandoned mansion where the party was held. He has a purple lipstick print on his cheek. Delia shows the police how the lip print on his cheek and the one on the paper she kissed are actually reversed - meaning that someone with a tissue blot of Delia's could have put the lip print on Vincent's cheek to frame her. So you might be surprised (or not) to find out that Delia is the killer after all.Motive: Right before prom, on a visit to Karina in the psych ward, Delia spills it all out to Gabe about how Karina just had too much. Ah, so Delia is Robin Hood, then? Delia sabotaged herself during the Conklin award auditions and she was the one who framed Karina for fucking her up before the party. She then killed Vincent that night and left his body for gone in the mansion come daylight. Since she displays no emotion whatsoever for someone who claimed to love him "so much" throughout the entire book, it is fairly obvious just what the twist will turn out to be. It's always who you least expect it to be, right? At any rate, Delia and her Midnight Wine lipstick are fucking nutters. It's a shame she never met Margo from Sweet Valley High. On the bright side, at least when you hate a character in Fear Street they get the axe. Come to think of it, however, I think I hate the girls more for actually loving Vincent than I hate Vincent himself.
There are a plethora of books that ive read and liked, but this book is one of my tops."Killers Kiss" by R.L Stine is a very good book.If you are the type of person that enjoys reading suspensive and misterious books, then i really think that your going to enjoy tis book."Killers Kiss" is based on two very competitive girls who are always competing for everything,from school grades, sports, style, even in love. This two girls with who they are both in love with make very harsh and regretable choices which at the end result in very big consequences just because of this guy for who they were competing for. This story wi make you not want to stop reading, since it just makes you want to know more and more about the characters and what happens in this suspensive and dramatic book. This girls are willing to do WHATEVER in order to win this competition on who gets vincents heart, unfortunatly things take a turn to a very mysterious accident........or could it be murder? This you will find out once you read this interesting book. I really recommend this book for others to read. It really makes you think very deeply about what really happend and at the end gives you a very surprising ending that you wouldnt imagine and like i said if you like suspense and mystery then this is a very good book that you will enjoy reading.
What do You think about Killer's Kiss (1997)?
These two girls were the most immature characters I've ever seen in a book. Vincent didn't deserve to die, but that doesn't change the fact that he was a pig and he definately had some sort of bad karma coming to him. I kind of figured that Delia was the crazy one. It just seemed to simple for it to have been Karina or Sarah. This was a very short, predictable book. The cliffhangers at the end of some of the chapters brought interest to the book, only to be ruined in the first two sentences of t
—Katrina Gudgeon
I read this book long time ago when I was still in my first years in college. I think this book, that belongs to a series of books involving thriller, teenage situations, murders, was very easy to read. The descriptions that the author gives about the different scenes, the characters, even what the characters are wearing, are very accurate and simple. Even though the stories in the book weren't as interesting as I wish they were, it was fun and I had a great time reading it. I seriously consider that you should read it in halloween. The way the book is written (and I guess the other books of the series) make me think that this is actually a book to read specially in halloween, considering the stories are fool of blood, knives and murders. I personally enjoy reading books of thriller :)
—Ibania Molina
This book was so good.It was about two girls one was named Karina (like me) and the other one was named Delia they both had something in common which was that they both liked a boy named Vincent. But what they both don't know is that Vincent is dating them both at the same time. They find out and they compete to get him. In this book Delia lies to get Karina in trouble lying about how she tries to get Delia in trouble. During the book, Delia would hurt herself to get Karina in trouble for example she rips up her clothes into tiny pieces and then kills Vincent at the end of the book and blames it on Karina.
—Karina
