Spooky! I would give it about a 3.5. Decent read and kept me entertained.
Mrs. Merrill Brewster finally overcomes her paranoia and lets her husband, Dan, rent a lake house where she and her family can spend the summer. They took the only remaining house available, which is a massive Victorian mansion. It seems kind of creepy in the pictures and when they first pull u...
Somehow I ended up with an abridged copy of this audiobook. I don't like abridged because I always feel like I'm missing something super important, usually characterization, but this abridgement wasn’t too bad.This story is about a psycho attempting to create a family by abducting women through o...
I've been a fan of John Saul's books for several years; honestly, I turn to his stories when I'm in the mood for Stephen King, but may not have the time to read a longer, more involved story. Midnight Voices was one of his more interesting novels. I've seen it compared to Rosemary's Baby, which ...
The Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul.Manhattan Hunt Club is a story about Jeff Converse and how he was convicted on attempted murder and rape to Cindy Allen, despite that Jeff Converse is innocent, he was convicted. By the time he was about to be moved to a larger imprisonment, he was saved by a ...
The children of the Dark Man lurked in the shadows.Okay. This is pretty eerie.I think one of the challenges when writing macabre tales about the grotesque or fantastical is to make the reader believe. Even when there is a scientific element to the story, it is easy for this kind of thing to veer ...
This is the first audio book I've listened to. I thought I would have problems with my mind wandering, but the story was so intriguing that I found myself completely absorbed with what was happening.In short, the story is about a school for genius children. It confronts the many problems these ...
Summary: A very rich man named Takeo Yoshihara has been experimenting with a liquid some of the people on his team have found deep in the Ocean.The liquid is found to make it possible for oxygen breathing beings to breathe polluted air and still live. But, there's on downside he has found. Once t...
Twelve-year-old Michelle isn't sure what to expect when her family moves from Boston to the tiny seaside village of Paradise Point. She knows her father, Dr. Cal Pendleton, is reeling from a mistake he made, a mistake which caused a young boy to die during surgery. Michelle's mother, June, is ver...
Saul Gets Scarier John Saul has been terrifying readers for more than two decades, and we keep coming back for more. It's easy to see why when you read his latest tour de force, Nightshade, a chillingly creepy tale that will have you looking over your shoulder every chance you get. Stunningly cra...
As a long time reader of John Saul, I was eager to read Second Child, one of his older novels I found in an antique shop. I was hoping for a creepy read,and this novel did not disappoint. The characters were interesting, the story flowed quickly, and there were plenty of scary moments.Thirteen y...
Generally speaking, John Saul's writing is the novel equivalent of SyFy original movies. The mix of consistency and inconsistency is amazing. Almost every Saul novel I've read has a ridiculous and cartoonish evil doctor and a crazy conspiracy... but some come off as lame while others come off a...
After reading John Saul's, When the Wind Blows, I can't say that I'm a fan of his but I'm not putting him down for the count. When it comes to being a reader, I can't say that I'm specific to any genre. If I had to pick one it would be children's or YA, not mystery, suspense, horror or thriller, ...
This was a good book. That’s all I can say about it. What I like most about John Saul is consistency. He always writes a good book. He never writes bad ones, nor has he written a truly great one. There is no magnum opus or capstone work in John Saul’s library of 36 published titles. With a few ex...
Trippy trip into the desert heatI’ve had such a good time reading lately that I haven’t realized I was falling behind on my reviews so here we go… This particular title from good ole’ Saul was a fun little romp that crossed a suspense thriller with a sci-fish mystery, I found it at my local libra...
Holy shit, where do I begin...The book opens with an infant's death. SIDS is a horrible fucking thing. We watch a very believable scenario in which the mother doesn't want to believe her baby girl is dead. This section is really well done. Broke my heart. And then the fuckery begins. The author m...
I wanted desperately to scream, "Oh, God! This book sucks! This book really, really sucks!" but the only words I could find were, "It's fine. It's totally fine." And then I finished it. As I closed in on 10 pages I thought to myself, "How the hell is John Saul going to end this story with 10 page...
“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”ttStephen King, Danse MacabreDON'T READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ...
This was my first book by John Saul and it probably will not be my last book. He is great way with words where things come off as smooth and not tedious and overdrawn. The story was the actual problem in this book. Now there was not anything wrong with the actual story (sure, there were some inco...
For more than three decades, bestselling novelist John Saul has been summoning macabre masterpieces from the darkest realms of his imagination. With each new book, his instinct for playing upon our deepest dread has grown only stronger and more sinister. He?s never been afraid to push the boundar...
I am fairly impressed by the quality of writing for this thriller, as many genre novels are usually just focusing on building up the mystery/thriller while the literary aspect is overlooked completely. I believe John Saul is in the same league as Stephen King, at least taking into account this no...
My Original PostWarning: SPOILERS!I love this book. I have read it so many times that I have lost count. Truth be told, I adore all of John Saul's books but this one seems to change every time I read it. From the supernatural elements to the "what is real" aspects, I love the well rounded nature ...
I listened to this while driving and it was very... odd. I love a good mystery but this book just did not catch me. And the ending was out of the blue and my reaction to it was, "Are you serious? What the heck." The book was not bad but not something I am into. Oh spolier alert!I thought some of ...
I don't typically write reviews of books but because this is my first One Star rating on here I figured I'd give sort of an explanation.I won't give spoilers.This book was fun-ish. If you're totally into John Saul then you will love this book. That being said - if you loved the Goosebumps books...
A few years after I read the dull plodding horror Nathaniel, it was with mixed feeling as to what to expect here.I don't expect every book to be a classic, just a good story even if it dose retread old ground. And I'm pleased to say that is what I got when I read this offering from John Saul. But...
The editor of the Blackstone Chronicle, Oliver Metcalf, nervously presides over the ceremony to begin demolition of the old Asylum. But the building's fate hangs in the balance as financing problems halt the project. Contractor Bill McGuire, all set to proceed, can't hide his dismay: with a famil...
To be honest, I wasn't all that interested in Black Lightning when I started. The only reason I picked it up is because I felt guilty for NOT reading it; it had been sitting on my shelf since around 2002 gathering dust. I didn't expect to really get into it, let alone LIKE it. Sometimes, it's ...
New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysterie...
So on Saturday morning, instead of getting up at her usual time, she allowed herself to sleep in, lingering in bed, not quite asleep, but somehow unwilling to dress and begin the day. “Are you sure you’re all right?” Keith asked when he came up to look for her just after seven. The look of concer...
Prevaricators! I’ll kill you all! I swear, I’ll kill you all!” Although muffled by the closed and curtained windows of Martha Ward’s chapel, the furious words still cut through the soft drone of Gregorian chants, startling Rebecca Morrison out of the reverie she’d fallen into as her aunt’s prayer...
Quarter to six. Fifteen more minutes. She'd give Jared fifteen more minutes, then-then what? Call the police? Call the hospital? "There's nothing to worry about," Ted had assured her an hour ago. "He's almost sixteen." Then, ...
A week. six days A week since she had married Russell, and since they had brought Molly, fully recovered from the bee sting, back from San Luis Obispo. But only this morning-this perfect June morning-had she actually awakened and known instantly where she was, and felt as ...
She wasn’t certain what was causing the strange fogginess in her mind—the suffocating heat, or the pills the doctor had given her the day before and insisted she keep taking through today. She had awakened twice during the night, each time with the hideous specter of Mary-Beth hanging in the dark...