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A review by becandbooks
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.5
For readers chasing their next dark murder mystery full of twists and turns, The Only One Left is for you. Set in a crooked mansion falling in disrepair, on the cliffs where all the wealthy folk built their glorious lives, is a story steeped in a massacre that has devolved into town folklore. Lenora Hope is believed to have murdered her family and now Kit is her caretaker.
Kit also has her own secrets, a past woven with a mysterious death. Together, Sager has tangled together a dark story with many possibilities and tension that will keep you reading late into the night. The steady pace of unravelling the truth escalates into a stunning conclusion, with the final chapters being nothing short of a rollercoaster of answers. A dramatic story in every way, this is an atmospheric book perfect for stormy nights.
Kit also has her own secrets, a past woven with a mysterious death. Together, Sager has tangled together a dark story with many possibilities and tension that will keep you reading late into the night. The steady pace of unravelling the truth escalates into a stunning conclusion, with the final chapters being nothing short of a rollercoaster of answers. A dramatic story in every way, this is an atmospheric book perfect for stormy nights.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy
Minor: Abortion
→ trigger warnings: teenaged pregnancy, cheating, childbirth, absent parenting, murder - including discussion of infant death, blood depiction, hanging, suicide, death from a fall, knife violence, death of parents, death of a sister, death of a mother, terminal illness, overdose, abortion mentioned, death of father