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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780449006535
ISBN number: 0449006530
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: March 04, 2003
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 201749
Studio: Ballantine Books
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The sudden, tragic death of her husband leaves Caroline Evans alone in New York City to raise her children with little money and even less hope. When she meets and marries handsome, successful Anthony Fleming, the charismatic man of her dreams, she believes her life is destined for happiness. She and her children move into her new husband’s spacious apartment in the legendary Rockwell on Central Park West. Despite her son’s instinctive misgivings about the building and its residents, Caroline dismisses the odd behavior of her neighbors as pleasant eccentricities. But after her daughter begins to experience horrifying nightmares and a startling secret emerges, Caroline realizes that the magnificence of her new home masks a secret of unimaginable horror. . . .
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In a Rosemary's Baby meets Hansel and Gretel thriller, John Saul's Midnight Voices is packed with bump-in-the-night chills that will frighten and delight readers with its nostalgic nod to urban legends and campfire tales. With short, edgy chapters and all-too-vivid imagery, Midnight Voices begs to be enjoyed in one sitting, in the dark, huddled on the corner of your couch. As usual in Saul's world, strange things are afoot in the city, and the Evans family is the target.
At the heart of this spooky tale are the children, Laurie and Ryan Evans, who are unwittingly exposed to danger when their recently widowed mother marries widower Anthony Fleming. The too-good-to-be-anything-but-evil Fleming lives in the Rockwell, a building rumored to be inhabited by witches and vampires, that has the children in the neighborhood terrified:
'Amber's eyes were still fixed on the building. They were just stories, she told herself once again. They weren't true. But even as she silently spoke the words to herself, a strange chill of apprehension ran through her and she turned away ... I'll die, she thought. If I go in there, I'll die.'
Of course, the newly married Caroline does not share the anxiety of her children, despite Fleming's Bluebeard-like determination to keep everyone out of his study, not to mention the horrible whispers and strange sounds coming from empty rooms in the middle of the night. It is this tension, and Caroline's dawning realization of her new husband's shortcomings, that drives the novel to its startling conclusion.
Saul uses familiar horror images--an ancient building with even older residents, creepy neighbors that are not quite right, whispers in your room after midnight--to spin a new tale of evil that will remind readers why one should always leave the closet light on. --Daphne Durham
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I've read several other John Saul books, "Faces of Fear", "Nathaniel", "Creature" and "Second Child". All were not great, but entertaining.
"Midnight Voices", however, was slow and I couldn't get into the story at all. I quit the book 1/2 way through.
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I liked the book, but the 1st 100 pages was slow & was hard for me to get into. Mr. Saul just seemed to go on & on about poor Caroline. It just got old. Once Caroline & her kids moved into the Rockwell things started to really pick up. I really liked the characters at the Rockwell, however I wish Saul would have gone more into their background. There was such potential, but instead had to read about poor Caroline.
My other gripes.... Mainly has to do w/ unanswered ?'s.
1. Who killed Caroline's 1st husband & friend?
2. How did the residents become what they are????
3. What happened to Anthony's 1st wife???
4. The boy in the basement - who was he, was it the other twin?
5. Caroline's 1st husband was a successful attorney, but didn't have life insurance for his wife & 2 children... Please
6. Chloe the dog - running out to Caroline (wouldn't animal control or someone done/said something about dog) & what happened to Chloe? Okay, I was just kinda hoping she would come running up too the boy at the end...
But my main complaint - the ending!
I'm giving this book only 3 stars since I had too many unanswered ?'s & IMO there was not enough background history about the residents living at the Rockwell.
I'd still recommend reading "Midnight Voices."
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Very nice read. One of those books you don't want to put down.
The only thing I would have changed would have been more information at the ending about who the Rockwell people were, what they were, where they went, and how they did what they did. A lot of that was left to the imagination, when I would have preferred it just be explained.
I felt very sorry for the little girl who had been adopted...the one the social worker went to investigate. For some reason I was drawn to her character, and still feel pangs of sympathy for her when I think of her and her situation.
I haven't read all of John Saul's books, but I've read a few, and this one has been the best.
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Somewhat interesting mystery. A little odd with the flippant main character trying too hard to be clever.
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'Midnight Voices' is the second book that I have read by John Saul. I found that this book was creepy enough to keep me awake, but interesting enough to keep me hooked until the end.
Simply put, it is a story about a woman named Caroline, who has been a widow for less that a year. Her husband Brad was tragically murdered, leaving her to raise her 2 children by herself.
One day, she meets two people that will change her life forever, both residents of 'The Rockwell', an old historic building close to Central Park in New York. She ends up marrying the man that she meets in the park, named Anthony, and the nightmare begins.
I found that the pace of the book was consistently steady, and that the author did a great job in the beginning to keep certain things a secret from the reader. Its not until the middle of the book that you start to see what is really going on in the building.
But there were some things that were hard to believe-at least for me. The fact that Caroline seemed really naive until the end of the book, that no one in the family thought it strange that Anthony cooked every meal, all the neighbors were prolific bakers, and that Caroline took every pill shoved into her hand like a toddler-no questions asked!
I would have liked to have seen the loose ends tied up, and there were alot of assumptions that the reader had to make. Was Anthony the killer of Brad? How did the residents become what they are? Why was the building affected by what was going on?
I didn't really like Caroline too much. Single mom or not, she could have been a little more believeable in her reactions. I found her very weak. I gave the book 3 stars because I had too many questions at the end, not enough background history on the residents of 'The Rockwell', and I didn't like Caroline. John Saul is a great writer, but this book felt hurried at the end.
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