A young family is lured to a "perfect" town but little do they know that not is all as it seems. I found this an easy and fun way to spend an afternoon reading.

This is the only Saul book I've read that I didn't like. It was far too slow to get going and far, far too predictable.

Some of Saul's books can be pretty disturbing and a little too creepy, but this one was disturbing on a different level---you can actually believe something like this would happen (the scientists genetically altering teenage males who are smaller, shorter, etc than their peers, in order for them to end up on par with or better than the teenage boys who are bigger, faster, etc). I guess the best way to describe it would be to say it resembles a "steroids gone out of control" story, a very believable potential scenario in this day and age of athletes and the radical performance-enhancing measures that some of them take. Yes, the "moral" of the story indirectly delivers itself throughout and up until the end; sometimes it's best not to mess with nature and what God gave you.

A solid John Saul novel. I’d do 4.5 stars as overall not my favorite of his. The pacing was a bit slow, and the finale not as break neck as other books.

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