Comes the Blind Fury
by John Saul
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Book Reviews of Comes the Blind Fury
Book Review: Kind of interesting at first, but disappointing ending.
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to say that the beginning of the book was riveting: How Michelle started to "change" little by little without knowing it, still retaining her innocence, but becoming more and more suceptible to the voice that she hears. I have to say it did not sound like I had heard it before.
Then there was the middle: It started to get predictable. I don't mind predictable if the plot begins to unravel and the mysteries unfold. But in this book the only "plot twist" about the fate of the nude woman I had already guessed the first few minutes into the book. I kept thinking that there was going to be a plot twist in the end. What a disappointment! I got to the end of the book and not only was it boring "gee another kid bites the dust", but you never learn the story of how this "possession" occurs or what mystical power enables such. You never learn where Amanda goes. It just has a "dumb" plot as effortless as that adjective may appear. Unfortunately this book does not even deserve a better written review!!!
Book Review: One of Saul's classic tales.
Summary: 4 Stars
Comes the Blind Fury is one of John Saul's early classics. It contains all the elements that the writer's fans expect and love...a dysfunctional family, teen (or pre-teen) angst, a gothic/small town setting, a dollop of the supernatural (that would turn technological within a few books) hidden within a mystery that goes back into the town's early history, and murder.Once again a troubled family moves to a small town in the hopes of starting fresh. Sadly their adopted daughter's inner emotional turmoil attracts the restless and revenge thristing spirit of a blind girl that met a tragic end nearly one hundred years ago (hence the title). As the girl's sanity weakens the spirit grows stronger and the bodies began piling up. Saul's fourth novel (following Suffer the Children, Punish the Sinners, and Cry for the Strangers) is one of his best, a tight and polished thriller that delivers the chills. Recommended.
Book Review: Bland and unconvincing
Summary: 2 Stars
This is my third Saul book and may be the last. I found this book annoying and frustrating. There were too many unnecessary characters who were too weak to do anything. I found June the most frustrating. How could she NOT stand up to her husband? Was he seriously affected that bad by his daughter's accident or was something supernatural at work? And Michelle's "friends" were so bowled over by the mean-spirited twit Susan that they physically could NOT stand up to her when she was being mean to Michelle? Not to mention, I wanted to know more about the little blind girl and her back story. Why did she pick those particular kids to harm? This book had an amazing concept that someone like Stephen King could have worked wonders with. Saul just seemed to flail around and not know what to do with it. The ending was somewhat satisfying which is the only reason I gave this two stars. Such a shame.Book Review: Of course it is bad. Of course.
Summary: 1 Stars
I finished "Cry for Strangers" and felt the story silly. Now I am half way into "Comes the Blind Furry" and decided that this is going to be the last John Saul book I will ever read.
The main problem with John Saul is that there is no strength in his stories. The main characters are either too stupid to fugure out things or too weak to act on things. The supporting characters shair the same problem with added indeference.
Stories don't have to have happy endings. Main characters don't have to be perfect. But they have to have something different about them to attaract the readers. John Saul's characters are too bland, too mediocre to carry a story. And it is just painful to read.
Book Review: Off the mark
Summary: 2 Stars
This book has lots of spooky elements - a ghost, an indestructible doll, an old man with family secrets, automatic drawing, a mysterious stain that won't go away. Any of these ingredients might be a good core for a thriller, but they don't come together in any meaningful way. Throw in a well-adjusted child turned instantly neurotic, a maladjusted dad, whose fragile psyche could never have survived medical school, and an ineffectual mother and you've got motives as murky as the fog that heralds the ghost's arrival. The plot revolves around "little children" who - at 12 - inexplicably speak and act like eight-year-olds. There isn't enough reality here to make the supernatural aspects effective.