The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
4.5 stars, rounded up for incredible creativity.
I will remember this novel for a long, long time.
I don’t want to write too much about it because I think the best thing about this story is how it unravels and how you as a reader are constantly trying to figure out what’s going on and each time you think you have it, you realize you don’t. And it keeps going again and again.
This is not a story with a twist, it’s a story with a million little turns. It’s like each time a layer of the onion gets peeled your perspective of the onion’s actual shape changes. And in the end, the book leaves you devastated.
I almost didn’t request this book because it said it was horror and while I think the atmosphere and mood of the story definitely feels like horror, I don’t think calling this horror is the right fit. It’s a very atmospheric mystery maybe but really at its heart it’s a character study.
It’s absolutely phenomenal.
with gratitude to netgalley and Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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