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

dark mysterious medium-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

2.5

You can't both want to make your story a careful and heartfelt plea for understanding and a really grotesque phantasmagoria of a horror thriller. It means you end up doing a whole bunch of explaining when it would have been better just to describe what was going on.