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sarahthegaymer 's review for:
The Last House on Needless Street
by Catriona Ward
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As we've established, Horror is not really my genre yet my Halloween TBR led me here...so we did the things and read the book and now we're here to review it.
I'm not really even sure HOW to review this because I feel like any and most things that I say will be classified as a spoiler, but I'll try and review what I can.
You spend most of the book following the perspective our of main character Ted and obviously he lives at "The Last House on Needless Street" and his cat Olivia. Yes, you read that right, we're getting the perspective of a cat and I am here for it because the cat is a goddamn legend and hates 'teds', or humans. There is also the perspective of Dee, a woman whose sister disappeared years ago after a family outing at the beach and her quest to find her sister. The book starts off incredibly slow, basically just accounting for Ted's day-to-day life & some events that have taken place prior to the current timeline from Dee and Ted's perspective.
While there wasn't any outright slashing or anything too gory in this book, there are a few elements of paranormal activity-ish and quite frankly that scares the shit out of me more so that is why I read this in one day. I couldn't sleep so I kept powering through. (I'm not ashamed, lol).
I can't say that for me the pacing ever picks up in this book, it's pretty slow the whole way through.
There is sort of a constant chaotic energy vibe throughout. I don't feel like I ever really knew what was happening and the perpetual state of "WTF" I was living in was a wild ride. The ending was intense and again just the energy it was given as all of these things start rolling out and into place was just what the book needed to round things out and end it.
I would say that I highly recommend giving this a try if you're looking to dabble in horror that isn't going to scare the daylights out of you - unless you are me in that case it will - and want to be immersed in chaos. I definitely think that I will give Catriona Ward another read and see how the rest of their books leave me feeling.
I'm not really even sure HOW to review this because I feel like any and most things that I say will be classified as a spoiler, but I'll try and review what I can.
You spend most of the book following the perspective our of main character Ted and obviously he lives at "The Last House on Needless Street" and his cat Olivia. Yes, you read that right, we're getting the perspective of a cat and I am here for it because the cat is a goddamn legend and hates 'teds', or humans. There is also the perspective of Dee, a woman whose sister disappeared years ago after a family outing at the beach and her quest to find her sister. The book starts off incredibly slow, basically just accounting for Ted's day-to-day life & some events that have taken place prior to the current timeline from Dee and Ted's perspective.
While there wasn't any outright slashing or anything too gory in this book, there are a few elements of paranormal activity-ish and quite frankly that scares the shit out of me more so that is why I read this in one day. I couldn't sleep so I kept powering through. (I'm not ashamed, lol).
I can't say that for me the pacing ever picks up in this book, it's pretty slow the whole way through.
There is sort of a constant chaotic energy vibe throughout. I don't feel like I ever really knew what was happening and the perpetual state of "WTF" I was living in was a wild ride. The ending was intense and again just the energy it was given as all of these things start rolling out and into place was just what the book needed to round things out and end it.
I would say that I highly recommend giving this a try if you're looking to dabble in horror that isn't going to scare the daylights out of you - unless you are me in that case it will - and want to be immersed in chaos. I definitely think that I will give Catriona Ward another read and see how the rest of their books leave me feeling.