I'm absolutely reeling from how brilliantly crafted this book was. 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 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. Catriona Ward has immediately become an auto-buy reader for me, no questions asked.

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. As a bonus, the audiobook narrator did one of the best narrative jobs I've ever heard, and if you're an audiobook lover, I can't recommend that format highly enough for this story.

✨ Content warnings for:

Spoiler

child kidnapping/abuse/death, animal abuse/death, homophobia

Thank you so much to the publisher and LibroFM ALC Program for providing me with this review copy in exchange for an honest review!

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