I read these books for just...I don’t know, mindless reads that are entertaining. This one was boring and didn’t explain some important stuff. Also it just introduces a character briefly and then by the end he is a main character.

It´s strange to read this book now that we have gone through the whole covid scam from 2020-2022... Nearly everyone has been given the poison shot, multiple times, and there is strange stuff being found in the vials that causes blood-clots and sudden adult death syndrome or SADS. The WEF is planning a future for those who survive where they are a slave-like underclass with no spiritual dimensions to their lives, they own nothing but are "happy". But that´s our current reality, the book has a similar plotline that was very easy to predict, due to how it felt like a re-telling of our modern times. Everyone is running to get a needless flu-shot, almost no questions asked, and people don´t bother to think about what might be getting injected into their kids. They just obey. And it´s all a conspiracy fueled by psychopathic scientists working and doing their experiments for a powerful satanic elite who wants to change/bring down our civilization and societies.

John Saul deserves credit for writing about this in such good detail, 30 years before it actually happened globally (must have been happening on a smaller scale like in the book for decades - which is horrifyingly sad to think about). Micromachines ended up being called nanobots, but that is about the only thing not terrifyingly accurate here. Even the vaxx´s spike proteins were represented and the antenna did a good job covering for 5G.

Although this book starts off slow it gets roaring during it´s latter half and I loved it.

Moves along at a nice clip, and I kept reading because I wanted to find out what happened, but a) there's way too much space devoted to union politics in the first half, and b) head-hopping all the time! Argh!

flojo al inicio, trepidante al final

Me ha parecido un poco flojo, pero puede ser que me pillase en un mal día para leer. Más adelante haré relectura.

Wow, Couldn't find this book in a search and had to create it. I went through the effort because I thought the story was different with a twist on the ending that I never saw coming...that doesn't happen to often.

Dated but easy to read with interesting twists. A young HS teacher returns to her sleepy New Mexico home town when people start dying from strokes. She shacks up with an older man she always admired and his teenage half breed son. There is one major business, oil. The refinery is failing, money is tight then a big company swoops in to buy it out. Something is amiss and Judith must find out what. A fine read with an exciting ending. But a few unanswered questions remain leaving it open for a non existing sequel.

The pace can be quite slow in the first half of the novel, but quickly picks up in the second half. The story paints a fascinating tale about the trust and admiration of larger corporations, and how smaller communities remain helpless to their secrets and planing.

An interesting read indeed. Certainly terrifying when the reader can find startling similarities to modern times.

A science fiction thriller with elements of Native American mysticism, Sleep Walk is an ambitious novel with compelling characters and a slew of themes including the destruction reaped by colonization, man's greed, and the harmony of nature. I can't be certain how accurate the Kokati Indians are portrayed here, but they were certainly written about with empathy and two of them serve as main characters. Saul's writing is capable but dry. Sleep Walk could have used another pass in the editing stage (phrases and words are sometimes repeated too often in a short space). Overall, I found it enjoyable though it had a very slow start. Three and a half stars.

Summary: Judith Sheffield held a teaching job at a terrible school in the heart of East Los Angeles. Everyday she found herself scared for her life. She wanted to get away from the danger and the horrible children but she couldn't think of any other place to go.

Then one day she got a call from her Aunt Rita in NM, whom she hadn't seen in ages. She told Judy about the opening at their High School. Since the old Math teacher suddenly had a heart attack they needed a replacement. And since Borrego was Judy's old home town and there was nowhere else to go she decided to pack up and take Aunt Rita up on her offer.

Everything seems to be going fine at first and Judy is reuniting with her long lost crush from her own days in High School and getting along well.

Until "accidents" start taking place involving the teenagers of the town. A young teen, Heather Fredericks has an accident in the wee hours of the morning when she should have been at home in bed and asleep. She's found dead at the bottom of a canyon nearly a thousand feet straight down.

So many teen accidents and strange events all happening in the small sleepy town make waves and soon Judy and her friend are onto the case and trying to find out what is so strange in the town that is causing all their youth to slowly die off, one - by - one.

It seems that there is a mad man with terrifying powers that hates the teens of Borrego, NM. Controlling their minds and making them commit suicide.

As more gets revealed things become crazier and more terrifying by the day. Now that they know what is going on... will they have enough time to stop it?

Thoughts: John Saul's old style of writing about children and young adults were my favorite reads, so I enjoyed this book as well. I just like his way of descriptiveness and characterization.

DNF at 48%. This book was so boring! Did not seem like a John Saul book. I really enjoy most of his books.

A very good storey.