Nightshade, John Saul
Nightshade, John Saul
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Nightshade

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Chet Green

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2005

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Matt Moore seems to have it all: a loving mother, a caring stepfather, a host of friends, and a growing relationship with the most beautiful girl in school. All signs point to a bright future, until fate intervenes. After a sudden fire leaves Matt's senile and troubled grandmother homeless, she moves in with the family. Her ceaseless demands cause unrelieved tension - and with her comes a shameful secret about her daughters that traps Matt between a dead aunt who haunts him and his own mother, who seeks redemption for her sister's sins—and her own. Matt transforms from a gregarious teenager to a hostile loner prone to fits of rage—tortured by chilling memories and haunted by nightmares.Then a shocking tragedy shatters the family beyond repair, propelling Matt's mother and grandmother into a final, explosive confrontation…a showdown in which old wounds will be viciously torn open—and a horrific shadow from the past will spring an implacable life of its own, clawing toward Matt with the ferocious inevitability of death itself.

About John Saul

House of Reckoning is John Saul’s thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, Guardian, and Faces of Fear. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.

Reviews

Goodreads review by hotsake

3.25/5 This was another well-written John Saul novel. The setup was great and the ending was spine-tingling but the story sagged in the middle and I found myself just thinking "Get on with it" a few times.......more

Goodreads review by Richard K.

Another great read about one messed up family!! A family with tons of secrets! The thing that this was missing in the supernatural aspect.....or; was there one? So with this being written in 2000, it reads like a book from the early 80's in that vein of 'Flowers in The Attic', but Saul wrote unlike a......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

A 15-year-old boy named Matt lives with his mother Joan and her new husband Bill Hapgood. They also end up taking in Jones mother Emily. There's also a lot of talk of Jones sister Cynthia. Has the story progresses there's speculation that Matt has shot bill in the face while hunting. Matt suffers fr......more

Goodreads review by Sean

"A pair of eyes pierced the darkness, seeming to hang suspended in the blackness, fixing on him with an intensity that made his skin crawl" This is the book you want to be reading on Halloween night. This story is as close as it gets to actual terror. A mysterious fire burns the house of Matt Moore's......more

Goodreads review by Mike

The novel begins with a young child being abused. The story begins with discord in the Hapgood home in Granite Falls, NH. Emily, Joan's mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, has to move in because she accidentally burned her house down. There has never been a good relationship between Joan and......more

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