Back in high school in the mid-eighties, I picked one of this author's books up from my parents' collection. I've liked John Saul ever since, but this book felt like too many of his other novels. Sarah, a 14-year-old finds herself crippled and in a foster home, after her father becomes a guest of the state penal system. Of course, her foster family is abusive and dysfunctional, and, of course, there is a old insane asylum across town that offers a solution. It is a simple formula, and the result in this case was a pretty simple story.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
House of Reckoning - John Saul
Back in high school in the mid-eighties, I picked one of this author's books up from my parents' collection. I've liked John Saul ever since, but this book felt like too many of his other novels. Sarah, a 14-year-old finds herself crippled and in a foster home, after her father becomes a guest of the state penal system. Of course, her foster family is abusive and dysfunctional, and, of course, there is a old insane asylum across town that offers a solution. It is a simple formula, and the result in this case was a pretty simple story.
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