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Summary: Filled With Things That Go Bump In the Night
Review: In every neighborhood there is always one house that all the children know to stay away from. But these houses aren't just limited to tiny suburbs in small towns. Even in New York City there's a building that all the neighborhood children know to avoid. An old building known as The Rockwell where witches and trolls and vampires live. When newlywed Caroline Evans moves into her husband's apartment at The Rockwell, her children are quick to voice their fears about the ongoing rumors. To Caroline, those who live there are just a bunch of lonely elderly people who simply adore her children and shower them with gifts and lots of homemade goods. It isn't long, though, before the rumors become real for the children when they hear strange voices and laughter at night. Soon after, not only does Caroline's daughter begin to have recurring nightmares but she also becomes strangely ill. Just like the foster girl who lived upstairs. Now that little girl has disappeared - and when a social worker begins asking too many questions, she disappears too. Everyone knows witches and trolls and vampires aren't real. But when Caroline and her children realize the evil that truly resides at The Rockwell, it just might be far worse. Filled with things that go bump in the night, the imagery alone in Midnight Voices will leave the reader with lots of chills and thrills. This book also reads somewhat like a crime suspense novel, and though some parts are a little predictable, it still provides a very entertaining read.
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Summary: It is too good to be a fiction
Review: John Saul did it again. Midnight Voices is the story about a widow in New York City is struggling to raise two of her children and the thrill starts when she remarried.With the connection of her best friend and neighbor girl death, she and her children feel some kind of strange that the people from the same building where she live with her new husband are paying too much attention to them.New husband's closed study room, the son's story about old pictures and neigbors strange attitudes make her eager to know more about history of the building where she stays currently.
Unable to stop reading it because the book give you a lot of excitements
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Summary: After Midnight
Review: John Saul has been around quite awhile, his one-a-year approach to literature sometimes approaching a mechanical, assembly line construction. Midnight Voices is one of Saul's least creative efforts to date. In fact, Saul seems unable to determine whether he wants the voice of Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" or Stoker's Dracula. Regardless, the suspense involved in Midnight Voices is sadly nonexistent. Children once again haunt Saul's pages. Cheryl Evans is the mother of two and is struggling with her husband's recent murder. Her life is rather helter skelter until a magical man named Anthony Fleming waltzes into her life. Eventually, she marries him and moves into a rather formidable building called the Rockwell located on Central Park West. Weirdness begins to caper and eventually focuses on Cheryl's two children. Production of the CD audio was magnificent and Aasne Vigesaa's reading voice is a decided plus. However, the story itself can hardly merit more than a listener's passing fancy. Saul has written better.
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Summary: A Fun Read
Review: John Saul has written a scary, suspenseful gothic novel that is an easy read and entertaining. His style is close to my two other favorite gothic authors: Anne Rice & Sherry A Mauro! I enjoyed this book.
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Summary: Midnight Voices is suspensful
Review: John Sauls Midnight voices was great. It keep me on the edge of my seat. It is a real page turner. One of the more exciting books I have read. If you want something that is supensful with a little bit of fright added to it get this book. You will not regret it. This is a book that you will not want to put it down. It was so much fun to read.
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Summary: A Good Yarn but...
Review: Midnight Voices is a slightly above average Saul novel. It's Rosemary's Baby meets Jackson's Hauting of Hill House. There's a lot that's good in here, and yet, I still wasn't fully satisfied with it as a whole. Maybe it was the paper-thin characters, or Saul's tendency to over describe emotions, but something prevented me from fully giving way to the story. And that's a shame, because the plot itself was quite good. After her husband was brutally murdered, Caroline thinks that it's the end for her. She's swamped with bills, with work problems, with personal problems and, to top it off, with two children who do not understand what she is going through. But all of that is about to change when she meets Tony, a rich man who lives in one of the town's most enigmatic, most exclusive apartment building: The Rockwell. Things, however, soon become stranger than ficiton. It seems that something's wrong with The Rockwell and its inhabitants. The too-good-to-be-true way of life is exactly that. Ryan and Laurie, Caroline's children, quickly realize that someone - or something - might be after them. But when Caroline finally begins to believe her children's accusations, it's already too late. I did enjoy most of the Rockwell's residents. They were colorful characters that actually felt unique and distinct from one another. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about the main characters. It almost felt as if Caroline and her children were the ones dragging the story. I wanted to know more about the Rockwell, I wanted to know more about the horrible things those people have committed. Instead, Saul went the conventional way, using the damsel-and-children and distress storyline that is prominant in so many of his novels. Ryan aside, the main characters (Tony, Caroline and Laurie) felt like nothing more than stock characters, the kind of people that too often populate Saul's novels. At least the levels of suspense are sustained through most of the book. Although the story has a few brief moments where the plots does lag a little, I liked the way in which Saul kept building the suspense, always pushing things to the next level. And the storyline itself was quite intriguing. It reminded me of those old horror films that relied more on suspense and thrills than blood and gore. And this is exactly what Saul does with Midnight Voices. Although not a great book, Midnight Voices did offer some good entertaining moments. It's nice to see that Saul is trying to break away from the stories that made him so predicatble in the past. Maybe next time, he'll actually get to write the great suspense novel that is trapped somehwere in him.
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Summary: Saul missed the mark.
Review: Neo-gothic thriller writer John Saul takes the creepy hotel out of his novel 'The Right Hand of Evil' and sets it down next to Central Park West and then moves the youth sucking old people from his novel 'Darkness' into it and cooks up with one of his most lukewarm offerings in years, Midnight Voices. The novel starts off farily well, with a murder and a nightmare sequence that may or may not be an actual nightmare. Then its all downhill from there. By the fifty page mark it is clear to the genre savvy reader just what is going on in The Rockwell (that not too subtle ironic name, think Norman, is about as witty as Saul gets) and the reader must work through another two hundred or so pages before the characters figure out the plainly obvious, that evil inhabits The Rockwell. Not helping is that it is evil we have seen done before, to death, in better told tales. Longtime fans of Saul will no doubt read this out of obligation, but others will put it down long before the heroes figure out the danger they are in.
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Summary: Never mind
Review: Never quite did it for me in this one. A dull read. sorry, but plodding plot did nada for this cowboy.
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Summary: A good read, but not his best
Review: No one can touch a nerve better than John Saul. His Suffer the Children was one of the most disturbing books I have ever read, and with Midnight Voices he brings us another tale of children caught up in the grip of evil. Many neighborhood children fear the Rockwell, the huge, ancient apartment building on Manhattan's Central Park West. Rumors of witches living in the crumbling apartments and bodies buried in the basement abound. Yet despite the gloomy atmosphere of the place, there is no real evidence to indicate the stories are anything but rumors. Then Caroline Evans, a young widow with two children, who is struggling to get by after her husband's brutal murder, marries Anthony Fleming, one of the Rockwell's inhabitants. Soon her children are disturbed by the sounds of unidentified voices late at night. Then Caroline's daughter begins having terrifying dreams of strangers' entering her room at night and touching her. She grows weak, appearing to have the flu, but the homeopathic remedies given her by the doctor who lives in the building, the doctor her stepfather insists should see her, does little to help her. Caroline's best friend, the caseworker of a foster child living in the Rockwell, is murdered, and soon Caroline discovers a secret about her new husband's past. Knowing something is terribly wrong, she determines to take her children and flee the Rockwell and its inhabitants, but it is already too late. Her daughter has already fallen prey to the evil that dwells there, and Caroline is powerless to help her. Despite an ending that seemed a bit predictable and anti-climatic, John Saul's mastery of suspense never lets the story falter. Recommended. ###
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Summary: A really polished formula novel
Review: Normally, I'm not a great John Saul fan. I don't think he has the breadth of Stephen King. However, he does spin a good tale now and then. This is one of his better ones. Saul does rely on a well worn formula: small family facing a hideous, supernatural foe. Unlike King, whose protagonists can come from any place in society, Saul seems to like all his characters to be graduates of Ivy League institutions and be upper middle class. I would like him to tackle a high-school dropout hero. Nevertheless, Saul does introduce several plot developments that make this a decidedly above average book. I particularly liked then ending. He does capture the feeling of Manhatten. Other touches shows that Saul has really grown in his genre. A book worth reading.
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