I remembered reading my best friend’s copy of this in middle school and thinking it was such a great book. Obtained a copy of my own to see if it withstood the test of time. It’s fun to read the other reviews of people who enjoyed it Back in the Day.

It wasn’t awful but it wasn’t as great or as scary as I remembered, although it did have some good spooky/scary scenes. The two things that got me the most reading it as an adult were 1) When the narration was coming from Michelle or her mother’s point of view, I didn’t feel that it was very authentic. It felt like what a man thought a girl/woman would be thinking/feeling. 2) When the students returned to the classroom the first day after Susan died, the fact that the teacher decided it would be best not to mention anything about what had happened. I went to school in the 70s/80s so I know things were handled differently then but that seemed very shocking and inauthentic (especially since the school counselor plays a part in the story). As a parent, I also wondered why Michelle’s parents didn’t do more to help her when her hip was still giving her so much pain, is she just supposed to deal with that the rest of her life?

It was fun to reread.

In the 1800s (quick, I'm having a Hellfire flashback), a young blind girl used to walk along the cliffs of Paradise Point. One day, a group of children start teasing her until she falls over the cliff. A decade later, a couple and their adopted daughter, Michelle, move into the house that the blind girl, Amanda, used to live in. Michelle is injured and becomes cripple, leading to the town children taunting her. Amanda wants revenge and soon starts using Michelle as her "eyes" to end the laughter.

His books don't take too much thinking and they're not perplexing. He has an irritating way of making the last climatic scenes rushed, but he knows how to keep you enthralled. Even if you don't find his horror very "horror-full", you do want to find out what happens next because he can weave a story.

Saul's early horror is scholocky, but I enjoy it. It's cheesy, cliched, overdramatic, everything a B horror movie is.

I haven't read this in years. My rating may change if I were to read it now. I just remember loving the premise of this book, I would read it over and over again.

I read this about 6 times when I was in high school and loved every minute of it. So much fun.