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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. this book was very exciting it always made me want to keep reading because i didn't know what would happen next. it was a very interesting and i got very into the book (  ) df1aemilyr | Sep 10, 2009 |  A haunted house story, without any sort of a happy ending. Saul develops the fear more by describing a scary environment or situation than by describing the emotions themselves, like King. However, this story is also set in a small New England town. The house is haunted the the ghosts a father who molested his teen-aged daughter, and the daughter who used black magic to stop him. The father burned his daughter, and his wife, as witches. Two teens find the daughters book of recipes. After a night of Reckoning, where violence is turned back on its source, the two families with abusive fathers and mothers in denial are annihilated and a school bully has cut his own throat. The two teens then hang themselves. But the house is still calling victims to it, and new tenants arrive. The two teens have now joined the ghosts haunting the house. (  ) ktoonen | Aug 15, 2009 | kahlee2000 | Jul 14, 2009 | this is easily my favorite book by john saul - although i've only read a handful by him. i'm really getting into his writing style - i love the way his words flow. and i love the way he can keep you on the edge of your seat. i found myself in tears at more than one point throughout this book. it gets a thumbs up from me, no doubt about it. i highly recommend this book. ( ) brokenmuse21 | Jul 9, 2009 | Saul's best book I've read so far. He brings me into the world of the family living at the end of Black Creek Road, and we learn to love the two children, who, in typical Saulsian modus operandi, he kills off at the end. Of course, I must ask this question? If people cdntinue to exist in a story as ghosts, are they still characters? I think so. ( ) andyray | Jan 31, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0449006549, Mass Market Paperback)The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retribution. With these eerie ingredients, bestselling master John Saul once again works his unique brand of sinister magic to conjure an unforgettable tale of unspeakable terror.For most of her young life, thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan has been on the outside looking in, enduring the taunts of cruel schoolmates and the angry abuse of a bitter father. Then Angel’s family moves to the quaint town of Roundtree, Massachusetts—where a charming home is available, a promising job awaits Angel’s unemployed father, and most of all, the chance to make a new start beckons to the shy, hopeful teenager. But when she is shunned by her new classmates, Angel falls deeper into despair. Until she meets Seth Baker, a fellow outcast—and a fateful kinship is forged. It’s Seth who tells Angel the unspoken truth about the legacy of murder that hangs over her family’s home—and the whispered rumors that something supernatural still dwells there. Uncertain whether the stories are true, and desperate to escape the torment of their daily lives, Angel and Seth devote themselves to contacting whatever restless soul haunts the dark recesses of Black Creek Crossing. But once they have begun, there is no turning back. Guided by an anguished and vengeful spirit, they uncover the shocking events and centuries-old horrors that lay buried beneath the placid veneer of Roundtree. And along with the ghastly revelations comes a terrifying power—one that feeds upon the rage of the victimized, turning the basest impulses and most dangerous desires into devastating weapons. Now, the closer Angel and Seth are pushed toward the edge by their tormentors, the deeper they descend into the maelstrom of dark forces they’ve unleashed . . . and the more unspeakable the hour of reckoning will be. From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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