A review by jareadforfilth
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Wow… All I can say is WOW. This book blew my freakin mind, it begins (and remains) so dark throughout, but the twists in here flip everything you think you know on its head… and then does it again and I never saw it coming. The way this book shook me can not be overstated. I remember being 100 pages from the end like how can there be more?!? But when I tell you those last 100 pages annihilated me in the most satisfying of ways?!

the way I was lowkey rooting for Dee and BEGGING for Ted’s downfall and the safe return of Lulu only for everything to be reversed was WILD!! And it is so true what Ward says: this is a story about survival. When we find out Olivia is a personality within Lauren I gagged, but when we found out they were both within Ted?!? GIRL!!!!! AND THEN THAT DEE BASICALLY LET HER SISTER DIE?!? AND SHE WAS KILLED BY SNAKES AND SO WAS DEE?!?!?!? Not only the justice of that moment but the POETRY in it, I can’t even. And I’m so so soooo happy that Ted is finally given an opportunity to move forward. What a horrible hard life, it breaks your heart.


This book is incredible, for horror fans it is a MUST.
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