A review by arpeggi
Suffer the Children by John Saul

3.0

A few leaps were taken in terms of characterisation and general plotting, but Suffer the Children was fucked up enough to be intoxicating. The atmosphere that was built around the overall setting of the book brought a fair amount of dread, and the lore behind the wrongness of it all was alluring despite the lack of the needed exposition for the circumstances it influenced. As for the characters, their voices weren’t as distinct as they potentially could have been, considering Saul’s evident adroitness in writing. The embraced ambiguity especially caused the rest of it to fall apart towards the end, but for a composition that took less than a month to complete, this was rather impressive. Can’t say any more about it other than go ahead and try it, I guess.