Rating: 
Summary: Great until the last 2 pages.....
Review: This book tried to be too many different things. First believeable and then way too much unbelievable. The characters were shallow and uninteresting. There could have been so much more done with this storyline.
Rating:
Summary: very disappointing
Review: This book tried to be too many different things. First believeable and then way too much unbelievable. The characters were shallow and uninteresting. There could have been so much more done with this storyline.
Rating: 
Summary: The Best
Review: This is a great psychological thriller. John Saul ranks with Stephen King. People should read this book. It jumps right into the story and will scare you have to death.
Rating: 
Summary: A excellent spellbinder! A page to page thriller!
Review: This is one of John Saul's best novels yet!
Anne Jeffers, a Seattle journalist, has finally tracked down the serial killer she has been writing about to the world. The execution of this poor man has finally come. Richard Kraven's famous last word's refore he is executed are, "Today won't end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I'm dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?"
Yes, how will Anne Jeffers feel when Richard Kraven's sadistic thoughts are put into another's mind so that his mission can be completed? Read this excellent book to find out!
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing plot line, albeit fairly well written
Review: This is the first John Saul novel I've ever read. I hope his others aren't this formulatic and drawn out, only to reveal a disappointing conclusion.The story is one that, sadly, has been done over and over again in print AND on film. Anne Jeffers, ace reporter, watches serial killer Richard Kraven, whom she helped convict, die in the electric chair. At almost the same time, thousands of miles away, Anne's husband suffers a massive heart attack. Dead for over two minutes, Glen Jeffers recovers, but his personality is just never the same. The gruesome murders attributed to Richard Kraven start all over again - four years after his incarceration. Who can be the killer? Is there an accomplice? Are these copy cat murders? Who can say? Unfortunately, anyone who's ever seen the movie "Fallen" or an old 1980's horror film (the name of which escapes me now), knows what has happened. Saul throws a few mugafins our way, but to anyone experienced in reading a variety of books can see right through the fluff. The most disappointing aspect of the book is that the ending feels thrown together. It's as if Saul had a specific number of pages that he had to supply to his publisher, and he didn't want to go below or above that number. In short, the book just sort of ends. It's not satisfying. The police in this book are more bumbling than the team that investigated the Jean Benet Ramsay case in Colorado. They haven't investigated all their leads and the proof that Kraven was the serial killer is never really fleshed out. The central characters don't act believably and the trains of thought displayed don't follow a logical flow. And when was the last time you heard of a convicted murderer on death row being executed within four years of his incarceration? Four decades maybe - four years - never! I wanted to like this book, because the writing wasn't bad as a whole. Sure, it was a pulp novel - I knew it would be - but it wasn't poorly written - just poorly thought out and executed.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing plot line, albeit fairly well written
Review: This is the first John Saul novel I've ever read. I hope his others aren't this formulatic and drawn out, only to reveal a disappointing conclusion. The story is one that, sadly, has been done over and over again in print AND on film. Anne Jeffers, ace reporter, watches serial killer Richard Kraven, whom she helped convict, die in the electric chair. At almost the same time, thousands of miles away, Anne's husband suffers a massive heart attack. Dead for over two minutes, Glen Jeffers recovers, but his personality is just never the same. The gruesome murders attributed to Richard Kraven start all over again - four years after his incarceration. Who can be the killer? Is there an accomplice? Are these copy cat murders? Who can say? Unfortunately, anyone who's ever seen the movie "Fallen" or an old 1980's horror film (the name of which escapes me now), knows what has happened. Saul throws a few mugafins our way, but to anyone experienced in reading a variety of books can see right through the fluff. The most disappointing aspect of the book is that the ending feels thrown together. It's as if Saul had a specific number of pages that he had to supply to his publisher, and he didn't want to go below or above that number. In short, the book just sort of ends. It's not satisfying. The police in this book are more bumbling than the team that investigated the Jean Benet Ramsay case in Colorado. They haven't investigated all their leads and the proof that Kraven was the serial killer is never really fleshed out. The central characters don't act believably and the trains of thought displayed don't follow a logical flow. And when was the last time you heard of a convicted murderer on death row being executed within four years of his incarceration? Four decades maybe - four years - never! I wanted to like this book, because the writing wasn't bad as a whole. Sure, it was a pulp novel - I knew it would be - but it wasn't poorly written - just poorly thought out and executed.
Rating:
Summary: Well written, thought provoking, made the grey cells work!
Review: This was the first book I have read by this author and I was
pleasantly surprised. The storyline kept me on my "toes" throughout. I enjoy a
book that is well written and one which does not "jump" all
over the place. The author kept the meaning of the title a secret until you
were ~3/4 of the way through the book, but this did not, in
any way, affect the reader's enjoyment of the plot. In
fact, the discovery of the significance of the title only
increased my enjoyment of the story. I let my daughter read this book after me and she enjoyed it
as much as I enjoyed it, including the "discovery" of the
meaning of the title.
Excellent!
Rating:
Summary: I think that this book is great and diserves five stars.
Review: Well here's some basic info about Black Lightning.Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killres reign,capture,trial,and appeal-crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair.The day of execution came.A convicted killer met his end.Anne believed that her long nightmare was over.But she was dead wrong.
Rating:
Summary: A spellbinding chiller from beginning to horrifying end!
Review: When Anne Jeffers witnesses the execution of serial killer, Richard Kraven, she thought the horror was finally over. The murders would end and life would return to normal. Little did she know how far an evil soul was willing to travel for revenge. Black Lightning is filled with twists and turns and a surprise ending that's sure to keep you turning pages. Don't read this one when you're alone at night! My first - and surely not my last - visit with John Saul. He's a master
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