Helpful Score: 2
this book was very good. i've read it several times, and it never ceases to hold my attention. creepy book.
Helpful Score: 1
A good read...R.L. Stine for adults
Helpful Score: 1
I wasn't all that impressed. I found some grammatical errors in the book, and the plot seemed fairly obvious, along the lines of what Stine writes for teenagers, just with a little grown-up sex thrown in to make it an "adult book." Not my cup of tea.
Helpful Score: 1
Awesome book. Very Gory, and very inapropriate. If you get what i mean....um. The book has it's usual freaky ending, and no, that doesn't give anything away, because all his books end freaky, you know, with a bit of a twist. Course, everybook does. I must say, i did cry while reading this book, more than the goosebump books ever did. It's not a tear jerker or anything, but, it just has those moments when you can't help it. Well, i think i confused you enough.
Helpful Score: 1
Nobody does fear like R.L.Stine
His first blockbuster for adults
His first blockbuster for adults
Helpful Score: 1
Very interesting book, good read :)
Suspenseful all the way. A must read!!
From Publishers Weekly
Stine has written 56 YA novels and one adult novel, all horror. Readers will recognize this as the adult novel because it's hardcover and several characters in it curse, enjoy X-rated sex and die gruesomely detailed deaths. Otherwise, this simple, sturdy story of occult mayhem on a bucolic college campus features the sort of crude yet functional casting, plotting and prose that have made Stine America's bestselling YA author: characters verge on caricature, for easy identification; stormy nights and cliff-hangers abound; and no-frills prose, arranged in short sentences and paragraphs for speed reading, tells the tale ("The fingers stab deep. Her eyeballs make a soft plop plop as they are pried out"). Even those with minimal attention spans will keep turning pages as grad student Sara Morgan meets and marries hunky prof Liam Morgan. So what if Liam has a murky past, lives with his sister and takes his field?Irish folklore?so seriously that he throws salt over his shoulder for good luck and cringes in terror when a black cat jumps on his lap? Does that mean he's involved in the brutal mutilation-murders that are plaguing Moore State? Stine shakes a finger at two other suspects but doesn't reveal the reason for the bloodletting until novel's end. And that's just as well since, like the rest of this story, the underlying premise is about as sophisticated, though as effective, as jumping out from a dark corner and yelling "boo!" Major ad/promo; film rights to Miramax (Brandon Tartikoff, producer); Time/Warner audio due in October; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Stine has written 56 YA novels and one adult novel, all horror. Readers will recognize this as the adult novel because it's hardcover and several characters in it curse, enjoy X-rated sex and die gruesomely detailed deaths. Otherwise, this simple, sturdy story of occult mayhem on a bucolic college campus features the sort of crude yet functional casting, plotting and prose that have made Stine America's bestselling YA author: characters verge on caricature, for easy identification; stormy nights and cliff-hangers abound; and no-frills prose, arranged in short sentences and paragraphs for speed reading, tells the tale ("The fingers stab deep. Her eyeballs make a soft plop plop as they are pried out"). Even those with minimal attention spans will keep turning pages as grad student Sara Morgan meets and marries hunky prof Liam Morgan. So what if Liam has a murky past, lives with his sister and takes his field?Irish folklore?so seriously that he throws salt over his shoulder for good luck and cringes in terror when a black cat jumps on his lap? Does that mean he's involved in the brutal mutilation-murders that are plaguing Moore State? Stine shakes a finger at two other suspects but doesn't reveal the reason for the bloodletting until novel's end. And that's just as well since, like the rest of this story, the underlying premise is about as sophisticated, though as effective, as jumping out from a dark corner and yelling "boo!" Major ad/promo; film rights to Miramax (Brandon Tartikoff, producer); Time/Warner audio due in October; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
While this book is written by the author of the children's "Goosebumps" series, make no mistake, this is a book for grownups, not kids.
This was a good read until the last couple of chapters. Well written, felt like he built the characters well and a page turner that kept my interest...just wasn't thrilled with the ending.
When young, pretty graduate student Sara Morgan meets Liam O'Connor, the dashing Irish folklore professor, the attraction is mutual and overpowering. So when he proposes, Sara is too much in love to let his odd superstitions get in the way. Not even the brutal murders around their college town can spoil her happiness for long. Until, to her horror, Sara learns why Liam has good rreason to be so afraid.
When young, pretty, graduate student Sara Morgan meets Liam O'Connor, the dashing Irish folklore professor, the attraction is mutual and overpowering. So when he proposes, Sara is too much in love to let his odd superstitions get in the way. Not even the brutal murders around their college town can spoil her happiness for long. Until, to her horror, Sara learns why Liam has good reason to be so afraid.
When young, pretty, graduate student Sara Morgan meets Liam O'Connor, the dashing Irish folklore professor, the attraction is mutual and overpowering. So when he proposes, Sara is too much in love to let his odd superstitions get in the way. Not even the brutal murders around their college town can spoil her happiness for long. Until, to her horror, Sara learns why Liam has good reason to be so afraid.
She's a beautiful grad student. He's a bewitching Irish-born professor. While their love affair blossoms, people are dying brutal deaths on the small, leaf-strewn Pennsylvania campus around them. For Sara Morgan, Professor Liam O'Connor's only fault is his devotion to the oddest superstitions. Or is it? Now the police are asking handsome, dashing Liam about the killings. Now his superstitions are turning more forbidding. And now the man to whom Sara has entrusted her life is changing before her eyes..into the very vision of her darkest fears.
Always whistle past a graveyard. Never buy eggs after dark. She's a beautiful grad student. He's a bewitching Irish-born professor. While their love affair blossoms, people are dying brutal deaths on the samll, leaf-strewn Pennsylvania campus around them. For Sara Morgan, Professor Liam O'Connor's only fault is his devotion to the oddest superstitions. Or is it?
AN R. L. STINE FAVORITE, GOOD READING!
I probably read this at too young of an age, but who isn't curious about sex and monsters before high school? Definetly an adult book, graphic but enjoyable.
R.L. Stine is always a favorite.
She's a beautiful grad student. He's a bewitching Irish-born professor. While their love affiar blossoms, people are dying brutal deaths on the small, leaf-strewn Pennsylvania campus around them. For Sara Morgan, Professor Liam O'Connor's only fault is his devotion to the oddest superstitions.
This book is missing the dust jacket.
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