Nathaniel
Written by John Saul
Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith
3.5/5
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From the blood of the past, evil rises to seek undying vengeance... Prairie Bend.
Brilliant summers amid golden fields. Killing winters of razorlike cold. A peaceful, neighborly village, darkened by legends of death? Who is Nathaniel? For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply a folk tale - a legend created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit returned to avenge the past. And soon...very soon...some will come to believe that Nathaniel lives still - darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel.
For young Michael Hall, newly arrived in isolated Prairie Bend after having lost his father to a sudden tragic accident, Nathaniel is the voice that calls him across the prairie night...the voice that draws him into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling barn where he has been forbidden to go...the voice - chanting, compelling - he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror...Nathaniel.
John Saul
John Saul’s first novel Suffer the Children became an instant bestseller, as have many of the thirty-three novels of dark suspense he has published since. Amidst this busy writing schedule, he divides his time between Seattle, Washington and Hawaii.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A good, solid, entertaining experience. Mildly suspenseful, though the surprises and twists and turns are well above average; meaning, I did not see the left and right hooks coming and was a bit taken aback in a very enjoyable way. Saul's prose for a genre writer is surprisingly above average, his pacing is excellent, and the characters, especially the young boy with the gift (or is it a curse?) of thought perception/communication, are well fleshed out and able to draw the reader into their psyches of turmoil, fear, & courage. Not the happiest of endings I might add, which makes me extremely happy and desirous of reading some more early John Saul."Nathaniel's" premise goes like this: Widow & her son with unbeknownst esp return to her husband's hometown, where he died mysteriously in a barn some few months previously (the widow's husband had not been back to his hometown since before he'd met his wife, and had never spoken about his family with his wife, which adds to the mystery of the storyline) and look to settle in order to raise her nine year old son and the baby -- her dead husband's -- on the way. Her husband's family seems okay at first, but events soon demonstrate otherwise, particulary with her father-in-law and his overly strict relationship with her son. Her son begins seeing and hearing things emanating from the barn of a cantankerous, reclusive neighbor. He struggles with friendships because of his unique paranormal abilities. Talk of Nathaniel soon transpires. Who is, or was, Nathaneil? Are the sick, twisted, sad rumors regarding Nathaniel true? And why are so many newborns in the family, presently and in the past, born dead? The plot thickens weaving in and out of these questions, which are all ultimately answered, though the answers aren't really the answers a hopeful, optimistic reader -- heh heh heh -- expected.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome book that was scary, but, kept your attention till the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Told in a straight forward, easy-to-read manner, Saul's Nathaniel had me gripped in the first few pages. It's always a good sign when you form visceral gut reactions to characters, so much so that you want certain things to happen to them. I'm immediately invested. The pages flipped by as if time had stopped. The book had just the right mixture of creepy and scary. It would make a great movie. I discovered this book by accident in a Little Free Library, and I'm glad I did.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A regular reader of Saul...….I have to say this. The ending was fluid and ambiguous and left you wondering. For the most part it is pretty decent. John Saul= Evil children. Just like Dean Koontz=On the run with golden retrievers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A regular reader of Saul...….I have to say this. The ending was fluid and ambiguous and left you wondering. For the most part it is pretty decent. John Saul= Evil children. Just like Dean Koontz=On the run with golden retrievers.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Typical Saul fiction about evil children--atmospheric but with an incoherent ending
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5john saul's plot lines are sometimes unsettling. in short, when it was all over, you are left wondering: "huh?" Happy endings? fagaddaboutit. that's why Hollywood leaves his books alone. In this story, he doesn't kill off the protagonist (Mark?), but does something just as weird, and where did that big black dog come from. he painted it as being a familiar with nathaniel, but at the end the dog attacks Nathaniel. I think. That's what I mean about being unsettling. If someone asks what the story is about, I would be hard put to give the essence.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nathaniel is a name spoken in whispers by the people of a small, rural town in the Midwest. It harbors old stories and pains of days that they pretend never happen, but will one day come out and kill those who wronged the young man named Nathaniel. When a widow and her son arrive in this town, they find themselves caught in the story of Nathaniel's past, and bring about change, both good and bad.This was much better than the last Saul book I read--The Homing--and a lot of fun to read. I finished this book relatively quick, and it was pretty good. I look forward to reading more of Saul's works.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Easy and enjoyable to read - in just a couple of days. It's another wonderfully creepy novel from the mind of John Saul.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A good, solid, entertaining experience. Mildly suspenseful, though the surprises and twists and turns are well above average; meaning, I did not see the left and right hooks coming and was a bit taken aback in a very enjoyable way. Saul's prose for a genre writer is surprisingly above average, his pacing is excellent, and the characters, especially the young boy with the gift (or is it a curse?) of thought perception/communication, are well fleshed out and able to draw the reader into their psyches of turmoil, fear, & courage. Not the happiest of endings I might add, which makes me extremely happy and desirous of reading some more early John Saul."Nathaniel's" premise goes like this: Widow & her son with unbeknownst esp return to her husband's hometown, where he died mysteriously in a barn some few months previously (the widow's husband had not been back to his hometown since before he'd met his wife, and had never spoken about his family with his wife, which adds to the mystery of the storyline) and look to settle in order to raise her nine year old son and the baby -- her dead husband's -- on the way. Her husband's family seems okay at first, but events soon demonstrate otherwise, particulary with her father-in-law and his overly strict relationship with her son. Her son begins seeing and hearing things emanating from the barn of a cantankerous, reclusive neighbor. He struggles with friendships because of his unique paranormal abilities. Talk of Nathaniel soon transpires. Who is, or was, Nathaneil? Are the sick, twisted, sad rumors regarding Nathaniel true? And why are so many newborns in the family, presently and in the past, born dead? The plot thickens weaving in and out of these questions, which are all ultimately answered, though the answers aren't really the answers a hopeful, optimistic reader -- heh heh heh -- expected.