Playmates

by Andrew Neiderman

Book Overview

A woman driving upstate with her five-year-old daughter takes a shortcut that leads to disaster when her car breaks down in a rainstorm. When they seek refuge in a nearby farmhouse, she and her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425098982
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Beware of Short Cuts

This book was very good. A woman and her daughter set off on a road trip and have problems with their car. when the man at the gas station tells them about a short cut that will help them make up some time the nightmare begins. they have been kidnapped and locked up in this house of maddness. the husband goes looking for his wife and daughter and it will keep you reading to find out how it all will end. If you are looking for a good thriller this is it.

Great!

To me, this book had a slow part around the first quarter of the book. I have read two of his other books, Amnesia and The solomon Organization. Both seemed to have a small slow part. But his books are so great, you speed through the slow part so fast it's hard to notice. And it only last a couple pages at most, every other page has something so exciting you'll rip some pages cause you can't turn it fast enough. I love the way he writes. And the suspense is just like watching a movie. I can't help but read and read and read and read. I'm not much of a reading, but he got me hooked.

A VERY GOOD TRIP IN THE BACKWOODS !

Indeed, this novel is a very suspensful thriller. This is my third Andrew Neiderman book (I've read PIN and BRAINCHILD), and once again, the author delivers. Fast-paced, nicely crafted, with a plot that keeps you glued to the very last page, THE MADDENING (aka PLAYMATES) is definitely worth your while ! I, too, will check out the movie adaptation.--M. Boucher

Thrilling!!!

I picked this novel up at a used bookstore, and it was in the print under it's original title, "Playmates." I haven't finished it yet, but so far, it is horrifying. The horrors that go on at the farmhouse truly are "maddening." When I finish reading this book, I am sure I will still think that it is amazing. So far, it is a suspense filled psycho-thriller. I definitely recommend it. You are pulled into the story almost immediately, and the characters have true substance and can be cared for. I have to see the movie!!