A review by nzlisam
The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.

DNF @ 20% - No Rating! 

It pains me to give up on this one as I normally enjoy this author’s work, and The Only One Left contains so many gothic elements that I normally love. But it’s so slow, and Kit’s voice is really irritating me – I feel she’s written as far too modern for 1983, and especially considering she’s a thirty-one-year-old woman in the early eighties. I can’t imagine anyone balking over having to wear a uniform, all being offended over being asked to address a patient as Miss Hope rather than Lenora, back then. Also, it just doesn’t feel like 1983 – a walkman is described as brick-like (as opposed to what?) and there are many other similar consistencies that I just can’t overlook. The one flashback I read in Lenora’s POV is the only part I really liked. 

I’d like to thank Netgalley, Hodder & Stoughton, and Riley Sager for the e-ARC.