Creepy. Enjoyed it.

The beginning was good but the further I read, it got to weird so I skipped a lot of words. It was OK

Outstanding story - this book kept me turning pages well into the night. Little murder mystery and enough suspense and horror thrown in that its my kind of read. Not sure why it took me so long to try books from this author - lucky the cover of this one caught my eye at a garage sale that I picked it up with another of his books. If you enjoy old time Stephen King and Dean Koontz - your going to love this one.

⭐Rating: 5+/5⭐

Nu mai citisem de mult timp o carte de John Saul (sau una horror). "Vocile" mi-a reamintit de cât de bine scrie autorul și cum reușește să te țină în suspans până la ultimul rând.

Cam până pe la jumătatea cărții se formează miezul poveștii iar mai apoi am devenit din ce în ce mai curioasă de ce urmează. Suspansul a crescut din ce în ce mai mult așa că a fost greu să mai las cartea din mână!

Finalul a fost foarte tare și mi-a plăcut de legătura subiectului cu...ceva anume ce nu aș vrea să numesc ca să nu dau spoiler.

I enjoyed it.

The imagery was great in this one. It's the first thing I've read from john Saul and he really knows how to create an atmosphere. Not sure why though but about halfway through I almost gave up. Might just not have caught my interest enough.

I'll tell you what though; the ending was worth it. Not going to spoil it for anyone but I like how things ended up and there was a certain creep factor that I haven't been able to get from books normally. Not a spine chiller or a page turner but certainly something that'll leave an impact in my mind when I'm in a dark parking lot...

Really intense paranormal/horror/suspense set in a creepy NYC apartment.Loved the Central Park setting, and the wonderful character development.I really cared about the widow and her two children.

A very hard to put down read,so read when you have the free time!

Highly recommended for those who love 'clean' horror-suspense without the profanity/graphic sex/and splatter-gore.

I grew up with John Saul. He was my constant companion as I roamed free, going to school, playing outside and them coming home to have my "friend" John Saul scare the ever-loving shit out of me.

So, even though somewhere along the line, my taste in books changed, I always felt a fondness toward my scary little friend, Mr. Saul. And I'd often do rereads of his books.

And rate them highly -- usually.

Not this one.

Perhaps my least favorite of his books.

I do not want to describe the plot because there is not much of one. It's hard to explain. It reminded me a bit of "Down a dark hall" by Lois Duncan but Duncan's book is much better.

This book had a sort of depraved quality that I just backed away from. Sorry Johnny -- his books would usually do it for me but this book was like taking everything I do not like about Saul while removing everything I DO like.

Put it this way -- bloodsucking elderly people? Check. The children as victims? Check. When did Saul go from eerie horror to -- I don't know - something freakish about children basically being tortured?

Some might think me hypocritical because I count "The God Project" as one of the best horror books around but that had a plot and although there was violence, it was nothing like this. I'd say God Project had shades of dystopian before Dystopian existed.


Very rarely do I dole out a one rating to John SAUL. But this was not up my alley. So so different from his early works.



I just felt like I needed a shower reading this. The graphic scenes of what happens to the children made me a bit sick. In some of his more early works, Saul was heavy on dialogue and I found his books unputdownable. Not so, this.

Caroline Evans is a mother of two children, She met a man named Anthony and marries him quickly. She seems to be outgoing and falls in love quickly. A quote that really gets to me is, "You can't run away from memories, no matter how hard you try." When I read this book, it sounded interesting because the summary about the book lead me to read the book.
When the children started to hear voices in the night, they would start to wonder what it is, or who it is. Until one night it got so bad the daughter had to say something to her mother and step father. But they did not believe her, they told her it was just a nightmare, little does Caroline know it's not just a nightmare.
This book made me jump a few times, or get chills running down my spine. When I finished this book I wanted to start over and re-read the whole thing, I felt every emotion Caroline did and her children. Once i started I did not and could not put the book down.
The author did well on making it a mysterious horrifying yet good book. This is because he made events happen and lead onto why it happened later on in the book, he also made the midnight voices so real you can actually hear them inside your head reading the words in the book.This is good writing because it was not like any other book I read, where it shows what happens and everything else is not interesting.
I would recommend this book to anyone that loves mystery and horror, also someone who can watch it as a movie while reading the book.

Scary. I hadn't read John Saul in years and I found this one in a neighborhood share. Definitely read it quickly as not to have too many sleepless nights. I followed along easily, always reminding myself, wait... that's a main character. A few names are confusing and there were points I had to re-read pages, but for the most part it was fun, creepy and quick. I am just happy it didn't happen to me. :)

Il mio primo incontro con John Saul risale a più di 20 anni fa, quando durante le scuole medie ho letto ed adorato "Blackwood", che a suo tempo ricordo era venduto in edicola in uscite settimanali. Da giovanissima lettrice di horror che era da poco uscita da Piccoli Brividi e Horror Junior e aveva appena iniziato a conoscere King e Poe, il romanzo di Saul ebbe un eccezionale impatto sul mio immaginario. Sono sicura che se avessi letto "Voci di mezzanotte" nello stesso periodo l'avrei probabilmente amato moltissimo. Pur trattandosi di un romanzo "adulto" a suo modo, avendo fra i personaggi principali due ragazzini di dodici e tredici anni, alle prese con un mondo di adulti misteriosi ed inaffidabili, mi sembra parli bene anche ai lettori più giovani. Una storia che ha un suo fascino, sicuramente racchiuso nella prima metà, con alcune vibes che mi hanno ricordato "Rosemary's Baby", ed un epilogo forse un po' troppo frettoloso e anticlimatico.
La scrittura di Saul è molto lineare e cinematografica, si fa leggere in fretta.
Mi ha fatto molto sorridere la presenza di due personaggi col cognome Barnes and Noble, che mi piace credere sia un riferimento alla celebre catena di librerie americana!

Summary: Caroline and Brad Evans had married right out of college and had two children. Ryan was eleven and Laurie was thirteen. They lived in a nice apartment and Brad was well established in his career. Everything was going well for the family until Brad was murdered.

Irene Delamond is an elderly lady. She lives in a grand building called the Rockwell. She lives with her sister whom is confined to a wheelchair. A simple enough life she seems to live. Getting simple pleasure out of watching people from her apartment windows.

Irene spots Caroline Evan ad her two children on their way to the park on day when she decides that her recently widowed neighbor should accompany her to the part as well.

At first Caroline wasn't interested in Mr. Anthony Flemming. But after a few chance meetings and an invitation to dinner that she'd accepted she realized that being with him helped ease the loss of her murdered husband. Anthony seems to love the Evan children as much as he does their Mother and soon after their meeting in the park Mr. Flemming and Ms. Evans are married.

Ryan hates his new stepfather and he hates his apartment at the Rockwell. Laurie is a little less hardened but is still cautious. But Caroline is happy and hopes her children will grow to love Anthony as much as she does.

Everything is pretty smooth until a young girl at the Rockwell and Laurie becomes friend with seems to have disappeared. Then Laurie starts having terrible nightmares of the residence of the building whispering to her and poking her with needles an tubes.

Then a fiend of Carolines that also happens to be a social worker on Laurie's friends cse gets murdered.

And the elderly people that also inhabit the Rockwell eventually don't seem like the innocent and sweet people they once did. Instead it is proven that they are all dead. They are keeping themselves alive by feeding off the youth of the children inside the building.

For centuries they have been finding just the right children fro their needs. Children with a certain age range and ones that were healthy enough.

They come to them at night using the secret passages within the ancient building. They poison their dreams and feed off of them in the cloak of midnight.

The children appear to be ill. They complain of being tired and weak and when Caroline notices that her daughter Laurie is beginning to look sick she stars to worry.

Ryan tells his Mother about a photo album of Anthony's that he has seen. Filled with pictures of him looking the same as he does now only taken hundreds of years ago.

And once the people int he building realize that she's starting to cat on to the their plans to suck the youth from her children they send her away.

Now, Ryan's left to rescue both his sister and Mother. He sneaks out of Rockwell by means of the hidden passages and helps his MOther to escape form the sanitarium she's been committed to.

They go back together and save Laurie. Caroline goes to the only safe place she knows. Her friend house out of town. The friend makes her call the Police and the investigation only finds an empty apartment building.

The only clues to their whereabouts is somewhere in Romania. Five years later and still she can not let the mystery go. She travels to Romania against her children and friends wishes. She finds the ruins of the town where Anthony was from.

She finds only tombstones of the peoples remains from Rockwell. All of which read their birth in the 1800's and their death in the same century.

They seem to be at rest now. Just waiting for their return to Rockwell and their chance to steal away more life from children.

Thoughts: I didn't really care for this book as much as the others Saul has written. It was different, but I find myself not liking this one as much as the ones he's written years ago. Worth a read though I suppose.