Ghost Story -- 3 stars
Sarah Crane's mother is dead; her father is in prison. Sarah is in foster care. Sarah is a gifted artist and an outcast. Her only friends are her art teacher, Bettina Phillips, and Nick Dunnigan, a boy who hears voices. Ms. Phillips lives in a decaying, ancestral mansion behind a high gate. When Sarah visits the mansion, she creates savage paintings she doesn't remember creating. John Saul has made a career out of writing formulaic tales of hauntings and things that go bump in the night. House of Reckoning is no different--a dead parent, a sad child, the evil foster family, a friendly misfit. Add in the moldering mansion and a benevolent adult and you've got his entire palette. I enjoy his books once in a while. They may not be very original, but they are always a fast and fun read.
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