Booked
Boy, I've never been so glad to be finished with a book! I just read John Saul's Nightshade, and it just wasn't the right book for me. I've read several of his books, I really loved some of them, the spooky Indian ghost one, the one where the kids find out they're all experiments, the one with the blind girl. Oh, wait, maybe that was the same one...Sure, they're a little formulaic, the story always starts out with some creepy foreshadowing, and there's always some twist, that may be easy to figure out, like The Sixth Sense. And sure, sometimes the twist is rather stupid, like The Village, but I've usually really enjoyed Saul's books. They're quick and easy to read, a nice falling-asleep book. But this one I just didn't like.
I think it started with the character not wanting to put her Alzheimer's mother into a home or hospital. Maybe that just got the whole thing started off bad for me. I think it's foolish to try keep an advanced Alzheimer's patient in the family home without the proper help (this character was trying to care for her mother basically by herself). It's dangerous to everyone, and not fair to the patient. The character just kept saying she couldn't send her mother away, family, and loyalty, and all that rot. It made me really not like the character, and I guess that's why the book wasn't' my favorite.
Anyway, taking a break from a serious book until I can get that one out of my brain.
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