Bless the Child

by Cathy Cash Spellman

Book Overview

AN INNOCENT CHILD IN MORTAL DANGER. AN AGE-OLD BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. Praised for creating fiction that "will keep you turning pages night after night" (The Dallas Morning News), bestselling author Cathy Cash Spellman imagines a terrifying realm of devilish menace in a novel that will touch your heart -- and chill you to the bone. Vibrant, youthful, and a grandmother at forty-two, Maggie O'Connor has lovingly raised her drug-addicted daughter's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044651697X
• ISBN13: 9780446516976
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

That's what I call a Thriller !!!!

"Bless The Child" is one of the best and most well-written books I've ever read. Having always been a Stephen King's fan on the supernatural-occult kind of thriller novels, I imagined it difficul that there could be another writer that could impress me even more. This book prooved me how deeply wrong I was!!! I found the book from a friend last year, I read it 3 times, with the same and even more enthusiasm and interest each time and it was the book I was really sorry, for having to give it back. I therefore, definitely, want my own copy. Unlike many books, this one is not a book you read once and then put it away. The reader gets so captivated from all the characters and the way each one of them interferes with the plot and contributes to it, that you really have to read it many times to really enjoy it as well as understand it as much as possible to every extent. Although a novel with quite ficticious aspects, (i.e. Isis's amulet and Sechmet's stone) Cash's wanted to make a novel based on real therories and practises, from many different cultures from allover the world, spanning a big historical period. For that reason, extensive research is obvious in her careful depictions and explanations of various schools of esoteric ideology and practices. Her characters and descriptions are well built and are definitely believable. (Ellie's and Peter's characters are fine examples that prove it). This breath-taking from start-to-end novel, will definitely trigger your appetite to actually do research and learn things on some of the subjects in the thematology used by the author to create it. An interesting bibliography is provided with this book for this reason.

INTENSE!

Cathy Cash Spellman's "Bless The Child" is one of the best and most intense books I've ever read. I found the book about 5 or 6 years ago and have read it numerous times since. Unlike many books, this one did not lose any of it's appeal in repeated readings. The first time I read it, I was so captivated by the story and character development, that I actually dreamed about the characters several times! Cash's extensive research is obvious in her careful depictions and explanations of various schools of esoteric ideology and practices. Her characters and descriptions are well thought out and quite believable. As a child I lived through horrors similar to those young Cody is subjected to, and I found Spellman's descriptions of Cody's plight to be chillingly realistic. If you have any interest in this genre of book, you are unlikely to be disappointed with "Bless the Child"

A Truly AMAZING READ!

i absolutely LOVE/ADORE/CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF this book. i have the original hardcover from 1994. the book is a truly fascinating read. a real page turner. i read this book on average about 3 times a year. it reaches out and grabs you with scenes that make your skin crawl or put you into the frustration that maggie feels. i was so excited when i heard that there was going to be a movie out about the book, however, disappointment quickly set in when i realized that they cut out many of the main characters and characteristics of the remaining people that are so vital to the book and really make the book sing and come alive. without the conflict interaction of several missing vital characters from the book, i am afraid that the movie will only be another movie to see if you have nothing else to do. if only they had taken the book and made the movie closer to it, i think there would have been a huge blockbuster for the end of summer in it.

do not judge this book by the movie!

I discovered this book three years ago and I loved it! The book is gripping and fascinating, unlike the movie adapatation. Please, please, please do not jduge this book by the the recent movie release, which drops basically the entire plot of the Isis Messenger, the use of Peter, Ellie, and other major characters, and pretty much destroys the entire plot! Basically the movie just liked the names of Maggie, Cody and Jenna, and wanted to be able to give the movie more weight by claiming it was based on a novel. Read the book, I promise it won't disappoint.

TERROR AND ROMANCE

THIS IS A CLASSIC HORROR NOVEL WRITTEN BY A NONHORROR WRITER! A GRANDMOTHER MUST SAVE HER GRANDDAUGHTER FROM OCCULT FORCES. SHE HAS ONLY A KIND-HEARTED COP, A PRIEST, AND A RABBI AS ALLIES. THIS NOVEL IS COMBINATION OF TERROR, ROMANCE AND THRILLS.