Cat lovers should not read this.

n  Rating:n⭐⭐⭐⭐

Decided to try a vintage horror and see how it goes, suffice it to say it didn't disappoint.

It wasn't particularly scary, but definitely very unnerving, disturbing and depraved. And at times, very hard to stomach.

The ending was also in classic horror fashion, bleak and a little unfair. Though I suppose it wasn't anyone's fault. They were all just pawns of something bigger than them, something evil and sinister.

Also, gotta give props to John Saul's writing, it was very atmospheric. Will definitely read more from the author.

Prima mea carte din horror october este si o introducere in bibliografia autorului John Saul. "Chinuieste-i pe copii" este o lectura light horror placuta, care insa ma lasa cu o dorinta de a vrea mai mult, avand impresia ca exista loc de mai bine. Ce am apreciat cel mai mult este punerea in echilibru a elementelor supranaturale horror cu cele care se afla adanc inradacinate in sufletul personajelor sale, balanta din ele fiind destul de subtire.
"Chinuieste-i pe copii si vei ajunge la mine."

Another great read from one of the best Gothic horror writers of all-time.

I think this is what’s classed as a guilty pleasure. Not particularly well written, not particularly well explained, not particularly likeable characters and a not particularly realistic plot for that matter.

However.....

I loved it and couldn’t put it down, i found myself tearing through the pages needing to know what was coming next.

I think under all the 70’s pulp there’s actually a dark gothic novel here, and a pretty good one. Because come on now, who doesn’t enjoy darkness?

3.5 stars

Realize that this book was written and published in the late 70’s.

Enjoy this book for what it is and that’s creepy kids doing awful things.

A fairly quick read. Left a few unanswered questions, but you can speculate as to the answers. Nothing truly original about this one. A somewhat predictable ghost story.

Long and repetitive at times. Almost DNF, but left it and came back.

WORST.PARENTS.EVER


I know this is John Saul's first book and I've only read Comes the blind fury besides this, but I'm starting to notice a pattern here:
-100 years ago some heavy stuff happened to a little girl...
-A deadly cliff near the main character's house where bad things happen.
-Another little girl in the 'present' day starts acting weird under the shadow of that one from the past, shit goes down and people start to die.
-Adults are oblivious and unable to outsmart a kid.
-Dolls resembling the kids they belonged to.
-Father figure totally useless and the main reason all that shit happens in the first place.
-EVIL KIDS ARE EVIL.

Also, I just can't believe how everyone underreacts at the fact that the father may have done something to his own daughter, and even let him still be around her. Heck! Even when he admits to his wife that he remembered beating his daughter and having sudden desires to rape her, she doesn't do the most rational thing and take her kids and get the hell out of there sending the bastard to prison, no! She stays there and even teases him because he can't get it up with her since the incident with the daughter! WHAT THE HELL, WOMAN?? WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF??

Another horror writer from my early days. This is a really good book.

LA P**** EN V****** CHAVALES HASTA LA ÚLTIMA LÍNEA FUCK YEAH

Voy a calificar este libro segun varios aspectos: ritmo (que tan rápido y fácil es de leer), historia (que tan buena es la trama), desarrollo (que tan bien desarrollan la trama), personajes (desarrollo, profundidad y veracidad de los personajes) y ambientación.

Ritmo: 9/10
Historia: 7/10
Desarrollo: 7/10
Personajes: 6/10
Ambientación: 8/10

Es un libro con una premisa interesante, aunque algo trillada: familia acaudalada, maldición, fantasmas, bosques y sucesos extraños, pero definitivamente me atrapó y quise a ver cómo se solucionaba la situación. Me pareció un libro bastante aceptable y entretenido con momentos muy extraños, incómodos y perturbadores, los personajes me parecen que estan bien desarollados, nada extraordinario, aunque los padres (Rose y Jack) me parecen terribles padres en ocasiones pasaban cosas extrañas con sus hijas, como que aparecian llenas de barro y limo y aún así no indagaron lo suficiente o se preocuparon mucho por eso viendo ek el contexto en que estaban. Si embargo, creo que su relación fracturada y la manera en que se tiraban comentarios mordaces uno a otro me pareció muy real.
El final si me pareció decepcionante, he leido algunas reseñas en que me dicen que tiene un final inesperado pero a mi no me lo pareció en absoluto, no es nada impactante y desde el principio se sabía que Elizabeth influida por Beth era la responsable de todo.

En conclusión, me pareció un libro interesante con momentos raros y perturbadores nada impactante o qué no me esperaba porque desde la sinopsis te hacen spoiler y te dicen quién es el responsable, pero fue una lectura entretenida que sirve para pasar el rato.