![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There will be some stuff in this novel that people will find uncomfortable with so be warned but if you’re a frequent horror/ thriller reader you should be okay. But the idyll is soon shattered as Angel learns a shocking secret about the house. This novel uses witchcraft elements in a way that doesn’t feel out of character for our protagonist and also doesn’t interupt the flow of the story. Thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan falls in love with her familys new homethe house that stands at Black Creek Crossing in the small town of Roundtree, Massachusetts. Witchcraft tales tend to be a hard sale for me, not sure why but they are. Our main characters ( Angel and Seth ) are so relateable and their experience in school at times mimics my own in such ways that I can’t help but be sympathetic. I believe this is the first John Saul novel I’ve ever read and it will definitley not be the last. Their choice to investigate these stories seals their fate in a tale with witchcraft, ghost cats, lightning trees, bullies, and tragedy. Seth tells Angel about somethings that have happened in Angel’s house and how the town thinks it’s haunted. She does make a friend of another outcast named Seth. ![]() Even one of her cousins join in on the bullying. The 13 year old daughter named Angel originally looks forward to the move because she was a social outcast in her previous school but she soon learns that the new school is pretty much the same as the last one when it comes to bullies. The Sullivan family move into an old house ( at a discount ! ) in Roundtree, Massachusetts. ” Black Creek Crossing ” by John Saul is a supernatural horror novel originally published in 2004. ![]()
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