Creators: Liked A USA Today Bestseller • Best Book of the Year (Vulture) • A Best Horror Book of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire) • A 2023 World Fantasy Award finalist Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, delivers a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story. "Here's your next obsession." (Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love) In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write. It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives. But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can’t be real – notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn’t recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder? No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does. "Impossibly compelling, brilliantly plotted, and incredibly moving all at once."—Virginia Feito, author of Victorian Psycho At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
LikedThis is the Catriona Ward book that I think is the most well-regarded after The Last House on Needless Street, which is good because I read, I think, Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward and I did enjoy it, but it was nowhere near on the same level as The Last House on Needless Street.
LikedThis is going to be Katrina Ward, who I'm very excited to speak with because I think she writes horror that's a little different than anybody else that I've really I've really read.
DislikedMy main beef with this book is the fact that it was so confusing and I understand what the author was trying to go for. And I think conceptually it's cool, but I feel like we maybe were trying to do one too many things in this book.
LovedDespite how much I loved Looking Glass Sound, The Last House on Needless Street does remain my favorite Catriona Ward book and based on this premise alone, I'm wondering if this could overtake it.
DislikedI could not get invested in this story because I thought the characters were so obnoxious
LovedI was constantly holding my breath going when I turned this page is this person going to escalate and actually Start Taking Lives having high stakes where a life or several lives hang in the back balance possibly just the sense that time could be running out had me flipping those pages like crazy I just had to know more I was just absolutely eating it up
MixedI have really conflicted feelings on this because first chunk which is the bit I initially described does read a bit why a but it is incredibly atmospheric she does write sentences that do really gives you Goosebumps
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