![]() ![]() The prose is lovely and effective, the characters are complex, and despite the fact that I am literally almost never taken off-guard by a reveal, I was on the edge of my seat to the very end and was genuinely stunned by some of the moving pieces here. Catriona Ward has immediately become an auto-buy reader for me, no questions asked. I feel that this is one of those books where there is almost nothing I can say to explain why it’s so incredible - all I can say is that I am devastated, raw, shocked, and amazed. ![]() It’s rare that I see a book get this much hype and think it deserves every bit of it, but The Last House on Needless Street does, from start to finish. ![]() I’m absolutely reeling from how brilliantly crafted this book was. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.Ī teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.Ī man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.Īnd a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.Īn unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all. ![]()
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