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The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

46 reviews

corncake's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Torture, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Animal death, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Grief, Kidnapping, Suicide, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Vomit

its_kievan's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I nearly put Last House down part-way through because I thought it was going to be so gruesome, but I'm so glad I didn't.

Ward gives us such a gentle, sympathetic look at a mental illness that has been horribly misrepresented by countless lesser authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Confinement, and Child death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

thehmkane's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Lots of good, satisfying twists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Confinement, Physical abuse, Self harm, Alcoholism, Vomit, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death and Homophobia

teagz2's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, Self harm, and Animal cruelty

themaddbeanie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

0.5

Readers will be like, "What a crazy twist!" when the author lies to you for 250 pages and then decides to tell you the truth at the end.
Yeah, someone's mental illness is not your horror story. You can't just steal a real disorder and turn it into a "freak show" for others to gawk at. Disrespectful

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Torture, Abandonment, Child abuse, Grief, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Medical content, Confinement, Death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Body horror, and Vomit

I feel like this could potentially be very upsetting for people with certain mental illnesses or those who have experienced abuse.

mlewis's review against another edition

I want to come back to this later to write it up more completely, but the short answer is that I grew impatient with the narrators

being clearly a single entity with disassociative identity disorder</>, despite their richness overall. I felt less propelled as the story progressed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Grief, Medical content, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Violence, Bullying, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Vomit, and Self harm

Minor: Classism and Fatphobia

julienicole1106's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Blood, Confinement, Vomit, Cursing, Death, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

mgordon3118's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Vomit, and Violence

theliteraryhooker's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Going to need to think on this one, but what an amazing ride that was! I was intrigued from the very start and read the last half of the book in a single sitting. I don't want to discuss the plot at all because this is one where going in blind is definitely the way to do it, but just know that it's been a LONG time since a book has gripped me like this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

odrib's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Vomit