NIGHT STONE [Unbound]

Rick Hautala (Author)

Product Details

• Unbound: 592 pages
• Publisher: Zebra / Pinnacle Books; First Edition edition (October 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821718436
• ISBN-13: 978-0821718438
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,404,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Huh--What-Huh?, November 6, 2002

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P. Craig "[e-mail]" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NIGHT STONE (Unbound)

That was my reaction during much of this book. Utter confusion. If you're hoping to find an explanation for what the Night Stone is exactly, then you should hope for a sequel.

The main character, I've already blocked out his name, is a shop teacher who has just moved his wife and 13-year old kid into a new town and a new house that was owned by his grandmother. Now immediately their kid starts to act weird and carry around this wooden doll she found in the house, not that the parents noticed. The dad is too obsessed with digging up these stones sticking up out of the back yard, ala King's The Tommyknockers, and the wife is too obsessed with finding a job to get her out of the house and away from the family. The kid, well she's obsessed with horses, oh and a little on the possessed side with whatever the spirit of that wooden doll is. Don't expect to find that out either. Everything bizarre that happens to the dad, like seeing his daughter fly through the air in her P.J.'s, he convinces himself that it was just a dream. Sure. I've had dreams like that too, but they were almost always chemically induced. The mom simply decides to ignore her experiences. Yeah, that's a great dramatic tool.

Though there was some intrigue to the story and the haunting, the characters were just so unlikeable that I didn't care. And just for good measure, the writer threw in some vague pedophilic reference in the beginning that had me waiting for the other shoe to drop and being suspect of the dad throughout. H-Whaaa???