Showing posts with label John Saul. Show all posts
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Ashes to Ashes by John Saul Review


Blackstone Chronicles Part Three
Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon’s Flame
By John Saul

Part three delves more into Rebecca Morrison’s life, we’ve met he in the previous books as “poor Rebecca” the woman whose parents died in a car accident when she was a teenager where she suffer severe head trauma leaving her in almost the same mental state as when she was a teenager.  Rebecca then ends up being the ward of her religious fanatic aunt Martha, who drove away her own husband and child years prior.  Unlike the other books where a “cursed” object is left at someone’s home in this book Rebecca buys it as a welcome home present for her cousin Andrea who has finally come back to Blackstone after having nowhere else to go.  I found this book focuses more on the main story line that ties the books together, which is not bad but left this part lacking in intensity though this is the first book to blatantly explain the connection between the memento and victim. All in all I really hope the books get better otherwise I have wasted my time for nothing.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul Review


The Blackstone Chronicles Part 2
Twist of Fate: The Locket
By John Saul

This is the second part of the Blackstone Chronicles, it starts very much like the first a mysterious figure leaves a memento from the asylum for someone to find. The object then causes chaos for that particular family last time it was a doll and this time it is a locket that causes the one in possession of it, in this case Jules Hartwick the owner of the First National of Blackstone, to become excessively paranoid.  This book is extremely fast paced the entire thing takes place in the matter of a couple of days, the suspenseful parts occur only in one day.  I personally don’t mind the time frame, but considering it only took me about three hours to finish it I would probably be extremely upset if I had to wait for another installment after this.  All in all I wasn’t impressed by the story as much as the first section of this story line.  To me this part was not very scary or even “spooky,” at best I would label it a Thriller. 

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An eye for an Eye: The Doll by John Saul Review


Blackstone Chronicles Part One
An Eye for an Eye: The Doll
By John Saul

The Blackstone Chronicles is a serial novel with its first installment, An Eye for an Eye: The Doll, released in January 1997.  A serial novel is one continuous story released over time in sections or in this case ”parts”.  In this book John Saul is able to grab hold and throw you into his world, a small town setting where various lives enter-twine.  Take one creepy doll add one crazy woman and you’ve got one hell of a beginning.  I personally wouldn’t say it is scary but I am difficult to frighten.  It was creepy, I will give it that, and definitely weird.   But I must admit the scenes involving the asylum on the hill did give me heebie-jeebies. We don’t know at this point why the asylum is so important or why the partial destruction of it has set about a series of strange events.  This is a great start and I’m excited to get to the next part.   
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