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tanja_alina_berg 's review for:
The Unloved
by John Saul
This was not at all as entertaining as I remembered it. I got to page 136 before I realized, with clarity and definition, that I had read this before. I was only 13 years old the first time, back in 1990 or 1991, and this was one of the first thriller/horror stories I ever read. I didn't have anything to compare with, my literary diet at the time consisted of children's classics and horse books.
Kevin Deveraux brings his wife Anne and his two children, Julie and Jeff, to the south for the first time to meet his dying mother. There is heat, a run-down house, a cruel dying mother and an aunt Maurgerite desperate to please. The atmosphere starts with being threatening and then eventually everything teeters over the edge, down to hell.
I found the story implausible, poorly conceived and the characters bareley believeable. The thrill I remember feeling from reading it the first time never entered the picture this time around. I will let John Saul stay as a "have-read don't-read anymore author". He belongs to my teens, together with Danielle Steel, Belva Plain and other authors who simply do not do anything for me anymore.
Kevin Deveraux brings his wife Anne and his two children, Julie and Jeff, to the south for the first time to meet his dying mother. There is heat, a run-down house, a cruel dying mother and an aunt Maurgerite desperate to please. The atmosphere starts with being threatening and then eventually everything teeters over the edge, down to hell.
I found the story implausible, poorly conceived and the characters bareley believeable. The thrill I remember feeling from reading it the first time never entered the picture this time around. I will let John Saul stay as a "have-read don't-read anymore author". He belongs to my teens, together with Danielle Steel, Belva Plain and other authors who simply do not do anything for me anymore.