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chronosunflower 's review for:

The Unloved by John Saul
3.0

That third star is for the suspense of it all, which is recurrent in John Saul's books. They always hit that narrow sweet spot that I crave in horror literature, but never beyond the point of mediocrity. I keep rewriting the review, but words fail me today. I suppose I have nothing important to say about the book, nothing that could make a review valuable or important to read. I feel like others have phrased my opinions better and have nothing new to add to what has already been said.

My final thought is: mediocrity. That's the best you can get from John Saul. Never expect more or less. He writes based on tropes we find now overused and non-sensical, yet he makes them nostalgic in one sense or another. It's cheap horror, but sometimes that is all I want to read. So I suppose I got what I wanted.