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The Last Girl Left by A.M. Strong, Sonya Sargent
4.25
mysterious tense medium-paced

A small island is the setting for this unsettling story. It gives it the perfect atmosphere though!

Theresa/Tessa was the only surviving girl of a mass murder 5 years ago. She's still plagued with nightmares. But she needs them to stop, so she rents the place where that very real nightmare happened and she is going to spend a month to try and chase the ghosts away while writing a book.

What she gets is the feeling that she's being watched. She finds a very tight knit community where all is not as it seems and people she's not sure if she can trust or not.

I have to hand it to Tessa, I could never go back to a place where she experienced something just so horrific. 

The mystery is this story became bigger than I thought it might and it was a perfect, spooky  and tension filled ride.