Rating: Summary: I AM A NEW FAN! Review: This book was great! I love the style of John Saul's writing! It is so graphic, yet simple, it makes you wonder why you haven't written anything like this. The plot is twisted, the story morbid, the charecters' deceiptful. My kind of novel! Entertaining from beginning to end and completely shocking! Great, highly recommended read! Five Out Of Five
Rating: Summary: White knuckle, page-turner..... Review: Wonderful work by John Saul...can't wait for the next one.
Rating: Summary: Southern-fried Gothic Horror! Review: This was a very good horror novel.Saul's novel is modern gothic horror novel in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe in depiction of a one family's terrifying bargain with evil.Alcoholic Ted Conway moves his family to his late aunt's house and soon will regret it as the house and evil entity that dwells their take possesion of Ted and his teenage son, Jared and pits them against wife,Janet and Jared's twin sister,Kim.Saul's novel has decent twists and chilling atmosphere in describing scenes of occult and voodoo.
Rating: Summary: Scared the @#@$% out of me Review: I think this is one of the scariest books Saul has written. Tome it's another Rosemary's Baby and Exorcist. Chilled me to thebone...can't wait for the movie
Rating: Summary: Leave it on the Shelf Review: Unfortunately, your rating scale doesn't go into minus numbers. Flat characters, boring story and animal mutilation - was John Saul always this bad? It may just be that I've outgrown this particular genre, but in my opinion, this wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. It just goes to prove - when it comes to the "creepies", stick to the 'King'!
Rating: Summary: Rehashed Stew Review: John Saul has turned out some incredibly good books: "The Homing," "Shadows," and "The Blackstone Chronicles," to name just a few. His dark, pessimistic view of life, particularly of youths and their parents, has always been a little disturbing, but his stories have held our interest and got us caught up in the plots effectively. Not so with this book. John has written this book so many times, I have to wonder why he bothered. It's so predictable! Hopefully, his upcoming release will exonerate him from this pedestrian effort!
Rating: Summary: Cliche Review: Maybe I am spoiled because my previous experience with Saul was so good - The Blackstone Chronicles. I really thought that was an excellent piece of work. So, I was in the mood for another horror yarn and I picked this up. And I was dissappointed!It seems like Saul knocked this one out as quickly as possible just to have a presence on the bookshelves - its plot was cliche and its ending very predictable. Characters were tragically underdeveloped and certain elements of the story that appeared as if they were intended to be important, went nowhere. All-in-all, not the best thing I've read this month. Not awful but bordering on a waste of time.
Rating: Summary: Awsome! Review: Not Saul's best book but definatly a page turner. It was great it kept me on the edge of my seat and up all night. I was a little upset by one of the reviews a woman wrote about this book, If she is so sickened by the killings and as she put it "Animal Mutilations" What was she doing reading a horror story.Once again the story was great.
Rating: Summary: A good first! Review: This was my first John Saul book and I found it to be very exciting. It led me to read other books that just got better. I can't believe that some would bash this book because I thought it was great. It got me so interested in John Saul. And I couldn't take me eyes out of the book until I was finished.
Rating: Summary: The Left Hand of Predictable Review: John Saul wrote this one for the bucks. Cashing in on his name, he has released a storyline that is at best predictable and juvinile. My son wrote better stories in the 8th grade. Pass on this one and go for one of his other books. Most of the others are good. This is a book you can read in a weekend, but it is filled with B rated horror cliches. I could give you a synopsis, but you've seen/read it a million times already. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah...
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