Un libro entretenido, que logró mantenerme enganchada hasta el final, donde me decepcionó profundamente. Con toda franqueza, hubiera preferido que el 'monstruo' hubiera quedado sin explicación, y sin tanta excusa.

Ojo, no es una mala historia, solo que no me convenció el supuesto twist del final.

One of my all time favorite books as a teen, was fun to reread it now, all these years later. I'd read everything John Saul wrote so many years ago, it was really, really comforting to fall back into the familiar prose and patterns again. Glad I decided to pick this one up again.

De verdad quería que me gustara.
Por la recomendación de Juan Carlos Malik me di a la tarea de buscar libros de John Saul.
Encontré uno a bajo precio y lo compré. Parece que me equivoqué de libro.
He aquí el porqué:
La historia es acerca de los extraños eventos que circulan alrededor de un niño, entre ellos la muerte de sus padres. Una amiga de su madre queda a cargo del niño y empieza a notar el extraño comportamiento del mismo por lo que la sospecha siempre flota alrededor de él.
La historia iba bien y captó mi atención en las primeras páginas gracias al ritmo de suspenso que fue escalando. Desafortunadamente este ritmo no se mantiene y a pesar de que van ocurriendo cosas extrañas en el transcurso del libro no se siente (al menos yo no sentí) un avance de la historia (y eso que ya llevaba más de la mitad leída). Todo se va quedando en la sospecha, en la intriga, en el drama y no llega más allá; prefiere entretenerse en la descripción del lugar.
Para darme a entender: cuando uno ve estos programas de "Alienígenas Ancestrales" en todo el episodio se plantea la intriga de lo que los posibles indicios pueden señalar, de las supuestas evidencias históricas que hay...pero nunca se llega a una conclusión; siempre se deja el misterio en el aire con preguntas retóricas.
Esperaba algo de verdad horroroso y lo conseguí a final de cuentas: este horroroso libro.

A telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for single mother MaryAnne Carpenter: her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, Joey, a sad and silent adolescent and MaryAnne's godchild, abruptly orphaned. But as MaryAnne rushes with her family to the Wilkenson's ranch to embrace her young charge, disturbing questions mount. Was it an accident that killed her friends? Or murder?
Now, as winter transforms the ranch into a place of blinding, dangerous storms, a series of horrific murders, killings that suggest a raging animal and defy solution by the local police, draw ever closer to MaryAnne and her young family.

Wow! my best favorite book of John Saul.
I highly recommend it....

A man protects his estranged child. His government experimented DNA was altered to make him part wolf.

This was my first John Saul book out of 4 or 5 I've read over the past year that I did not really enjoy. The story seemed to me to meander a bit and be generally disconnected. I just wasn't drawn into the developments and preferred it would just be over about halfway through. The ending with the government being responsible for the man Wolf thing just didn't strike me as interesting. I will read more from John Saul but I think I'm going to stick with his top 10 books or so, out of his 35 or 40.

The book started out wonderfully. I was so intrigued that I couldn't stop reading. However by the middle of the book, I started checking how many more pages I had to read. This was not the book for me.

Me encanto la trama que se situara en un lugar tipo campo y ese ambiente frio cerca del final. Muy buena novela

My new favorite book! The setting was amazing. The characters ( especially Joey and Olivia) were amazing. The plotline was suspenseful and thrilling. I will say no more so I won't spoil it for people who haven't read it. If there is a sequel I need to get it. That's how good it is

I think this is my least favorite by Saul that I've read. First of all, the reader knows straight away that there's a werewolf in town. So, the big revelation at the end after the loss of a couple key characters is no shocker. The story was entertaining, nonetheless. I sympathized with Joey Wilkenson.

3.5 ⭐️

CREEPY!