Chain Letter by Christopher Pike Summary/Review (SPOILER ALERT)

What if you and your friends did something very, very bad last summer? What if someone found out? This is what happens to Alison, Joan, Fran, Brenda, Neil, Kipp, and Tony, as someone called "The Caretaker" sends them letters and messages in the classified ads in the newspaper and tells them to do dangerous dares. Throughout the book, each one of them must complete a deed. The group notices a pattern in the deeds they must do: They all have mean something important to them. For example, Brenda has a role in the school play, You Can't Take It With You. The caretaker says that she has to tell the director of the play that he is the worst teacher in the world. She gets kicked out of the play. Also, Fran drew a picture of the school mascot, which is a bear. The caretaker says that she must spray paint the picture in black and red to make it a goat. This being said, it is clear that the Caretaker is someone close, or watching all of them, all of the time. Near the end of the book, Neil dies with a green ring on his hand, which seem to be the only indication it is him. But then the story takes a turn for the worst. It in  fact isn't Neil, it is the man they accidentally killed last summer. But Neil had taken the ring. And he had claimed it as his own. The day before he "died," he told his best friend Tony to give that emerald ring to Alison, with whom he had been in love, and who was dating Tony. At the very end, it is revealed that the Caretaker was Neil. He dies and never gets to graduate with the rest of his group. A lot of other crazy stuff happens too, but I can't tell you everything! There is a sequel, which I haven't read yet but hope to get to soon. This book is not your average, cookie-cutter mystery. It had a lot of depth to it and was very sad but happy, too. I tink anyone who loves mystery or horror with a twist will enjoy this book.