Book reviews

Black Creek Crossing
John Saul Book Review

Read a book review online (click here to search reviews)
Books Movies  
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Mystery/Thriller Literature Romance Biography History
John Saul Books
New book search
John Saul Message Board
Get more information about this book
Plot Summary of Black Creek Crossing
"

Ballantine, March 2004, 25.95, 368 pp.
ISBN 0345433327

Fifteen year old Angel Sullivan has no friends and is tormented by her peers. Her father drinks too much and has been fired from so many construction jobs nobody in town who will hire him. Marty's wife Myra loses herself in religion as a way of coping with her unhappy home life. When her sister Joni calls and informs her there is a perfect home that they can afford in Roundtree, Massachusetts, they buy it because Myra's brother-in-law gives Marty a job.

Angel loves her new home on Black Creek Crossing and believes she will make new friends at school but instead the students start tormenting her. The only person who befriends her is Seth Baker, a pariah like Angel. Both teens notice inexplicable happenings in the house and a black cat with a definite agenda. He leads them to a place on the basement stairs where a book is found in a hidden panel and then he makes them follow him to a camouflaged cabin in the woods. There they open the book and what they find between the pages allows them to finally get revenge on their enemies.

Drawing on the Salem Witch trials and the folklore on haunted houses, John Saul creates a tale so vividly chilling and horrifying that readers will want to sleep with the lights on. BLACK CREEK CROSSING is not the typical haunted house story nor is it a modern day retailing of the Salem witches but an amalgam of the two. The protagonists draw reader sympathy from the very beginning which is why the ending is such a shock. Mr. Saul has written another gothic horror novel that is unforgettable.

Harriet Klausner

"

Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar

"    Fifteen year old Angel Sullivan has been enduring the taunts of cruel classmates and the angry abuse of her father. Angel's family moves to the town of Roundtree, MA, where a new home and a promising job for Angel's unemployed father awaits them. But when she is shunned by her new classmates, Angel falls deeper into despair until she meets Seth Baker, a fellow outcast.
    Seth tells Angel about the murders that hangs over her family's home and the whispered rumors that something supernatural still dwells there. Uncertain whether the stories are true, Angel and Seth try to contact whatever haunts the home. Guided by a vengeful spirit they uncover the shocking events that lay buried beneath Roundtree.
.    "

Greg Bryant, Resident Scholar

Most similar books to Black Creek Crossing
The Heart of a Witch by Judith Hawkes
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Thinner by Stephen King
Last Things by David Searcy
Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card


Click here for more information about this book


John Saul Resident Scholar Profiles

TOP SCHOLAR:
  
Somer Robb  

SCHOLARS:
Greg Bryant  


Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s).
Three ways to search for Science Fiction books!

1) One-click plot searches! Simply click on a plot or subplot below!

Animal Story

Clones

Coming of age

Cultural problems, alien culture

Explore/1st contact/ enviro story

Family relations

GIANT monster(s)

Horror story?

Inner Struggle

Lifeform altered?

Mental/magical powers focus

Parody

Political power play

Religious overtones?

Repressive society story

Robots, Computers, VR

Romance

Spying & Investigations

Tech./$$$/Info hunt

Time Travel story?

Training/Apprent.

War or Invasion



or 2) Simple lookup
(title or author)

or
3) Even more search options available with a Detailed Booksearch (click here)

Use our site!
Feedback
About us
Bribe your congressman!
Rudy Giuliani



Most recent discussions:

General Book Talk
Book writing discussion
Off-topic message board
.
Caroline B. Cooney 12:18:20 AM
George W. Bush 12:15:46 AM
Suzanne Collins 11:33:40 PM
Jeff Shaara 9:10:50 PM
Sister Souljah 8:34:52 PM
Wendelin Van Draanen 8:16:28 PM
Angie Sage 7:26:30 PM
James Clavell 5:30:19 PM
Patricia McCormick 4:17:19 PM
Edward Albee 4:14:20 PM
V.C. Andrews 4:14:12 PM
Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer 2:10:25 PM
Teri Woods 2:03:46 PM
Christina Crawford 9:31:53 AM
Martina Cole 6:40:33 AM
Michael Gerber 2:28:30 AM
Sue Grafton 10:19:22 PM
Jean M. Auel 9:54:07 PM
Gabrielle Zevin 9:13:10 PM
Andrew Clements 5:16:25 PM

More message boards