Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Unimaginative, Boring, Predicatable, Incomplete

This was my first reading of John Saul and it will be my last. The old haunted house story is admittedly old hat but I have read authors who have brought new spices to the tale. This story, I couldn't wait to finish, not becuase it was good but I just felt obliged to finish, hoping that ,in the end, it would be worth the read, well... WRONG! Seth and Angle were so helpless and abysmal that I could work up no sympathy for them. Angle's mother was ineffectual, Seth's mother was inffectual. Both fathers were sadistic bullies and why did the priest even exist. The characters were formulaic, The plot was predictable and shallow. The ending was dissapointing with no real reason why it ended the way it did. This book will go in the box with all the other losers I've read.