I liked this story well enough, despite complaining during a big chunk of it that it wasn't scary.
The fear caught up with me in the end, although I cannot for the life of me understand how the fire started. It couldn't have been the Evil. It would want to preserve the space it dwelled in. For future generations, as it has in the past.
When I read The Right Hand of Evil, it had been years since the last time I read a John Saul book. My first experience reading Saul was the serial thriller, "The Blackstone Chronicles". Saul can tell a good story and I continue to read his new books when they are published.
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What a thrill ride! I really enjoyed that book. The action starts right off, and it doesn't really end. And a pretty good ending. I would read this again!
this is the third and last book of John Saul that ive read and will ever, this was so boring, and not only because of Saul's formula, the characters, the setting, not even the voodoo bits and flashbacks could save this one, just overall yikes
Family history, reputation, mystery.... and a family that has no clue and a lot to learn. Parts of this played out well... moving to a small town, a place where one or two people wield lots of influence and most of the talk worth anything is murmured to others and is virtually impossible to glean truth from fiction. Throw in an eccentric or two and you've got a typical small town. The rest of this was somewhat meaningless. The Bible writings only revealed themselves to someone who remained silent, so what they revealed really meant nothing to the players involved... they cold learn nothing and do nothing about them. The "dark" aspects were alright... a jacked up version of "good" v. a more realistic version of evil. Not nearly as mysterious or spooky as expected, but a decent read.