Mother's Day (Tales from Camp Crystal Lake #1) [Paperback]

Eric Morse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1994

With Mother's Day just around the corner, Billy Boone and his friends set out on a camping expedition to Crystal Lake, unaware that Jason's mother continues her quest for revenge and that a hunter is stalking the teenagers at the camp.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425142922
• ISBN-13: 978-0425142929
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Must Have for Jason Fans, January 2, 2002

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S. Calabro (Totowa, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mother's Day (Tales from Camp Crystal Lake #1) (Paperback)

Eric Morse's Friday the 13th's Mother's Day is the first book in his four book Friday the 13th series, in which Morse discusses what happens after Jason goes to Hell. In this book, the question of what ever happened to Jason's mother is answered! This alone makes the book worth the money. Morse, with his writing, is actually able to catch the essense of the movies in these books, allowing them to transend being "just for kids" to the rank of must have for any Jason or slasher fan! Morse will make you feel that you are actually in the book, that is how well he writes. Don't question yourself about the purchase, I guarantee that if you really liked the movies, you will love the books. They are a great lead into the upcoming release of Jason X!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Beautiful People always Die Last, October 11, 2001

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James Yount (Bay Area, Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mother's Day (Tales from Camp Crystal Lake #1) (Paperback)

In the interest of fairness I must disclose to readers that I am a friend of the author. That said I'll try to do an unbiased review.

A mother's gotta love her son, even if he is -- well, Jason! Jason and his mother do not figure in the story at first, but readers know that invariably the masked murderer (and his mask) will somehow be resurrected.

This book is the first of Morse's "Camp Crystal Lake" series, written for young adults, but good reading for anyone, regarless of age, who has ever told ghost stories around a campfire or watched scary movies with easily excited friends.

The story is told through the character of pretty, but shy, high schooler Carla McDonnell ("Carly") but includes a full cast of multi-dimensional characters (all the more for Jason to kill!), in high school or recently graduated. No matter where you went to school (or go to school) you will likely identify some of the "Mother's Day" crew with people you have known and (likely) not loved. For example, we all have known, as Carly does all too well, the Joe College jerk who thinks he is God's gift to women. No problem: in the end he becomes a gift to the worms, but then so do a lot of much nicer people.

The problem an author of books for young readers has is how to get the characters away from adult supervision where they can do dumb things and get murdered in interesting ways. That is where the camping trip to Camp Crystal Lake comes in. Oh yeah, wouldn't you just love to go off in the woods to a bunch of creepy cabins where a lot of people have been murdered? But those killings were all in the past, they can never happen now, right?

Hint to campers: there may be more than one camper hacker, and I don't mean a boy scout who is good with computers.

The book is quick, light, (but truly scary) reading. However, if you care to peel away several laayers of the onion you will find more than bulbous vegetable layers underneath. Where lies the evil? Jason? Mother? The mask? Is evil like a skin condition, those who get it just can't help but scratch the itch?

Morse's gift for writing is, in large measure, his skillful use of conversation to bring the story alive. On the other hand, I had a hard time buying into Morse's premise that such a diverse collection of characters would really want to hang out together and party, much less spend the night together at such a fearsome place. Most of them deserved what they got (or at least I shed no tear at their dread fate), but not Carly. Bring her back Mister Morse. Please?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Great Book!, December 3, 2005

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Russel F. Taylor (Lawton, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mother's Day (Tales from Camp Crystal Lake #1) (Paperback)

This book was really good. It actually seems like a Friday the 13th movie. The ending is slightly corny, but good anyway. This is the best of the Morse series, in my opinion, though all of them are very good.