jdcorley 's review for:

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
2.5
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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.