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Title: Midnight Voices (Unabridged Audio CD - 9 CD's / 11 Hours) by John Saul, Aasne Vigesaa ISBN: 1-59086-219-8 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (40 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read, but not his best
Comment: No one can touch a nerve better than John Saul. His Suffer the Children was one of the most disturbing books I have ever read, and with Midnight Voices he brings us another tale of children caught up in the grip of evil.
Many neighborhood children fear the Rockwell, the huge, ancient apartment building on Manhattan's Central Park West. Rumors of witches living in the crumbling apartments and bodies buried in the basement abound. Yet despite the gloomy atmosphere of the place, there is no real evidence to indicate the stories are anything but rumors.
Then Caroline Evans, a young widow with two children, who is struggling to get by after her husband's brutal murder, marries Anthony Fleming, one of the Rockwell's inhabitants.
Soon her children are disturbed by the sounds of unidentified voices late at night. Then Caroline's daughter begins having terrifying dreams of strangers' entering her room at night and touching her. She grows weak, appearing to have the flu, but the homeopathic remedies given her by the doctor who lives in the building, the doctor her stepfather insists should see her, does little to help her.
Caroline's best friend, the caseworker of a foster child living in the Rockwell, is murdered, and soon Caroline discovers a secret about her new husband's past. Knowing something is terribly wrong, she determines to take her children and flee the Rockwell and its inhabitants, but it is already too late. Her daughter has already fallen prey to the evil that dwells there, and Caroline is powerless to help her.
Despite an ending that seemed a bit predictable and anti-climatic, John Saul's mastery of suspense never lets the story falter.
Recommended.
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Rating: 2
Summary: MIDNIGHT MUDDLES
Comment: I have been a fan of John Saul from the beginning of his illustrious career, and found "The Manhattan Hunt Club" a brilliant foray into terror, quite unusual for Saul, and in my opinion his best book. "Midnight Voices" is somewhat reminiscent of his earlier works, but does not stand up to the best of those. There's so much wrong with this book that it's hard to focus on some of the pluses: like the creepy atmosphere he establishes in the opening murder scene of Brad Evans; the detail and horror he gives us in the Rockwell building itself; and some of the earlier expository scenes. But, here's what bothers me most:
1. The pacing is incredibly slow, and Saul once again uses the "thought overs" to rehash things we've already talked about, and nothing new occurs in them.
2. Doesn't Caroline marry Anthony Fleming a little quickly, particularly since she's having such a hard time getting over the murdered Brad?
3. And aren't Ryan and Laurie two of the worst brats you've read in a while? Ryan's antics in the last part of the chapter are about as believable as the Loch Ness monster. He's shown no resourcefulness up to this point, so his emergence as a hero is somewhat hard to swallow.
4. Who in the world is the little boy in the basement, and was he the one who had the italicized dream (it was a he, but it wasn't Ryan?).
5 What in the world happened to Anthony's first wife and sons and daughter? Did they just disappear---does Saul expect us to use our imaginations that much?
6. And who killed Brad and Caroline's best friend? Saul doesn't let us know.
7. And what in the world happens to all those lovely old people?
8. And what is the significance of the shattered tombstone at the end?
I am not trying to spoil anything about the book for readers, but this novel seems so hastily written and so poorly edited, I wonder why Saul even wrote it.
NOT RECOMMENDED.
Rating: 4
Summary: Midnight Voices
Comment: "Midnight Voices" what a weird title. I guess it relates to the book, in one way or another. I liked this book compared to some of the other books by John Saul. This was one of the very few that actually had a pretty decent ending. I have to say that a lot of what he wrote about in the begining was somewhat boreing, but it really does tie in with what the rest of the book has to say. I think that John Saul should have gone further deep on giving us information about the hotel and the people in it. This would have given a better conection to the hotel, characters, and title of the book. The one thing about all of John Saul's books, that I like is that he really goes into detail about the main setting, although some of the characters are a little spacy. This is a very good book and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in murder, mystery, and gore.
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Title: Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul ISBN: 0449006522 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Nightshade by John Saul ISBN: B00008RWPQ Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1900 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Presence by John Saul ISBN: 0449002411 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul ISBN: 0449005836 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Blackstone Chronicles : The Serial Thriller Complete in One Volume by John Saul ISBN: 044900192X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 10 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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