The Last House on Needless Street
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*** THE BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ***
***ONE OF THE TIMES BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF 2021***
*** THE TIMES NO.4 BESTSELLER ***
*** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ***
THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH
'I haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl' - STEPHEN KING
'One of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year' - DAILY MAIL
'A dark, audacious highwire act of a novel' - GUARDIAN
________________________________________
This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.
All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies. An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street. But it's not what you think...
From the multiple award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, this extraordinary tale will thrill and move readers. A work of incredible imagination and heartbreaking beauty.
*** FILM RIGHTS OPTIONED BY IMAGINARIUM PRODUCTIONS ***
*** RIGHTS SOLD IN TWENTY TERRITORIES ***
________________________________________
'Catriona Ward is the new face of literary dark fiction' - SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Books like this don't come around too often' - JOANNE HARRIS
'Believe the hype... a masterclass' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE
'A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense. I was completely enthralled' - JOE HILL
'A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting' - ALEX NORTH
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Was für ein Buch... Man fühlt sich wie in einer Waschmaschine, wird langsam gespült und dann immer mehr geschüttelt und es geht hin und her und immer rasanter und schneller, Twists über Twists und noch mehr. Man denkt, es ergibt nun alles Sinn und dann kommen noch mehr Twists und noch mehr. Bis zum Ende durch. Ich bin froh, dass ich nach den ersten Seiten, als es slow anfing, weitergelesen habe, sonst wäre mir ein Sahnestück entgangen. 5 🌟 sind noch zu wenig dafür. Ich kann nicht eine einzige Silbe verlieren, worum das Buch handelt, denn das würde alles vorwegnehmen und spoilern will ich auf keinen Fall. Man muss sich auf eine rasante Achterbahnfahrt gefasst machen, wo man nie weiss, wo der nächste Looping ist. Was für ein Meisterwerk! LESEN!!! Größte Empfehlung von mir!
Stephen King probably would have loved to call this novel his own, because it’s that brilliant. We are early in 2021, but this could be one of my favourite books this year. „The Last House on Needles Street“ is an utterly sinister, memorable and haunting read, you won’t be able to forget, for sure. I loved everything, the writing is impeccable and kept flowing from the beginning until the end. The plot is highly-intricate and once you think you worked everything out and the puzzle is solved - a non expected twist comes ahead and your puzzle pieces start to shatter. I‘m glad I found a new author of whom I will look forward to read everything from the past and the current. Thank you NetGalley / Serpent‘s Tail for providing me with this e-arc in return for an honest review.
Der Anfang war noch ziemlich unterhaltsam, ich mag unzuverlässige Erzähler sehr gern Ab ca Seite 100 (oder schon etwas früher) hatte ich einen Verdacht bezüglich der Protagonisten Ab Seite 150 wurde das Buch für mich leider immer anstrengender bzw konnte ich mich einfach nicht mehr für die Geschichte begeistern. Deshalb habe ich vieles überflogen und übersprungen und dann nur noch die letzten 50 Seiten wieder aufmerksamer gelesen. Irgendwie hat die Idee durchaus etwas sehr Spannendes, aber ich bin einfach kein Fan von Thrillern. Das war leider nicht mein Fall.
I had difficulties with the writing style, to be honest. Usually, when I notice that something is difficult for me to read, I put it away, but I just couldn’t: I needed to know what happens next. If you like a book with thousands of turns and twists and where you never know exactly WHAT is going on, this is for you.
I was sceptical through the first have of the book. But let me tell you: It picks up after the 200 page count. So, yes this was quite a slow burn for me because for the first 100 pages I didn’t really understand what was going on. Then it took some time for me to get into the story but after that 200 pages I couldn’t put it down! I agree with everybody though who says you should know nothing about the book before you start it because anything might spoil the twist(s). Also I really enjoyed the writing (after I got over the confusing part in the beginning :D) So, I did. think a lot about how I rate this book. Because of the struggles I had at the beginning. If I didn’t know that other people really enjoyed the second half and felt similar to me in the beginning I probably would have stopped reading after the first 100 pages. But I am so glad that I didn’t! Hence my confusion about the rating. But not often I am so captivated by a book as I was with this one in the end. So, it might be more of a 3,5 stars for me overall but I would definitely recommend reading this book if you are into dark thrillers (would really categorise this as horror)!
I was sceptical through the first have of the book. But let me tell you: It picks up after the 200 page count. So, yes this was quite a slow burn for me because for the first 100 pages I didn’t really understand what was going on. Then it took some time for me to get into the story but after that 200 pages I couldn’t put it down! I agree with everybody though who says you should know nothing about the book before you start it because anything might spoil the twist(s). Also I really enjoyed the writing (after I got over the confusing part in the beginning :D) So, I did. think a lot about how I rate this book. Because of the struggles I had at the beginning. If I didn’t know that other people really enjoyed the second half and felt similar to me in the beginning I probably would have stopped reading after the first 100 pages. But I am so glad that I didn’t! Hence my confusion about the rating. But not often I am so captivated by a book as I was with this one in the end. So, it might be more of a 3,5 stars for me overall but I would definitely recommend reading this book if you are into dark thrillers (would really categorise this as horror)!
A story that seems very familiar. There is a missing girl, a weird man in a boarded up house who regularly looses hours if not days he can’t remember, and the sister of the missing girl still on the search years later. But then there’s also a talking cat and this is where things got a bit more interesting. The story is small in scope, taking place only with a handful of characters and locations, which makes it very easy too read and it flows great. The atmosphere throughout is very tense and the slow dripping of new information keeps the mystery interesting. That is until at a certain point the “unreliable narrator” trope is getting a bit too much and it became pretty clear where the story will be going. There was a lot of drag in the third act and some chapters blended together because the characters kept repeating the same stuff again and again. In the end it was enjoyable enough because it took some turns away from the usual tropes.
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*** THE BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ***
***ONE OF THE TIMES BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF 2021***
*** THE TIMES NO.4 BESTSELLER ***
*** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ***
THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH
'I haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl' - STEPHEN KING
'One of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year' - DAILY MAIL
'A dark, audacious highwire act of a novel' - GUARDIAN
________________________________________
This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.
All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies. An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street. But it's not what you think...
From the multiple award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, this extraordinary tale will thrill and move readers. A work of incredible imagination and heartbreaking beauty.
*** FILM RIGHTS OPTIONED BY IMAGINARIUM PRODUCTIONS ***
*** RIGHTS SOLD IN TWENTY TERRITORIES ***
________________________________________
'Catriona Ward is the new face of literary dark fiction' - SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Books like this don't come around too often' - JOANNE HARRIS
'Believe the hype... a masterclass' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE
'A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense. I was completely enthralled' - JOE HILL
'A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting' - ALEX NORTH
Book Information
Posts
wow wow wow
Was für ein Buch... Man fühlt sich wie in einer Waschmaschine, wird langsam gespült und dann immer mehr geschüttelt und es geht hin und her und immer rasanter und schneller, Twists über Twists und noch mehr. Man denkt, es ergibt nun alles Sinn und dann kommen noch mehr Twists und noch mehr. Bis zum Ende durch. Ich bin froh, dass ich nach den ersten Seiten, als es slow anfing, weitergelesen habe, sonst wäre mir ein Sahnestück entgangen. 5 🌟 sind noch zu wenig dafür. Ich kann nicht eine einzige Silbe verlieren, worum das Buch handelt, denn das würde alles vorwegnehmen und spoilern will ich auf keinen Fall. Man muss sich auf eine rasante Achterbahnfahrt gefasst machen, wo man nie weiss, wo der nächste Looping ist. Was für ein Meisterwerk! LESEN!!! Größte Empfehlung von mir!
Stephen King probably would have loved to call this novel his own, because it’s that brilliant. We are early in 2021, but this could be one of my favourite books this year. „The Last House on Needles Street“ is an utterly sinister, memorable and haunting read, you won’t be able to forget, for sure. I loved everything, the writing is impeccable and kept flowing from the beginning until the end. The plot is highly-intricate and once you think you worked everything out and the puzzle is solved - a non expected twist comes ahead and your puzzle pieces start to shatter. I‘m glad I found a new author of whom I will look forward to read everything from the past and the current. Thank you NetGalley / Serpent‘s Tail for providing me with this e-arc in return for an honest review.
Der Anfang war noch ziemlich unterhaltsam, ich mag unzuverlässige Erzähler sehr gern Ab ca Seite 100 (oder schon etwas früher) hatte ich einen Verdacht bezüglich der Protagonisten Ab Seite 150 wurde das Buch für mich leider immer anstrengender bzw konnte ich mich einfach nicht mehr für die Geschichte begeistern. Deshalb habe ich vieles überflogen und übersprungen und dann nur noch die letzten 50 Seiten wieder aufmerksamer gelesen. Irgendwie hat die Idee durchaus etwas sehr Spannendes, aber ich bin einfach kein Fan von Thrillern. Das war leider nicht mein Fall.
I had difficulties with the writing style, to be honest. Usually, when I notice that something is difficult for me to read, I put it away, but I just couldn’t: I needed to know what happens next. If you like a book with thousands of turns and twists and where you never know exactly WHAT is going on, this is for you.
I was sceptical through the first have of the book. But let me tell you: It picks up after the 200 page count. So, yes this was quite a slow burn for me because for the first 100 pages I didn’t really understand what was going on. Then it took some time for me to get into the story but after that 200 pages I couldn’t put it down! I agree with everybody though who says you should know nothing about the book before you start it because anything might spoil the twist(s). Also I really enjoyed the writing (after I got over the confusing part in the beginning :D) So, I did. think a lot about how I rate this book. Because of the struggles I had at the beginning. If I didn’t know that other people really enjoyed the second half and felt similar to me in the beginning I probably would have stopped reading after the first 100 pages. But I am so glad that I didn’t! Hence my confusion about the rating. But not often I am so captivated by a book as I was with this one in the end. So, it might be more of a 3,5 stars for me overall but I would definitely recommend reading this book if you are into dark thrillers (would really categorise this as horror)!
I was sceptical through the first have of the book. But let me tell you: It picks up after the 200 page count. So, yes this was quite a slow burn for me because for the first 100 pages I didn’t really understand what was going on. Then it took some time for me to get into the story but after that 200 pages I couldn’t put it down! I agree with everybody though who says you should know nothing about the book before you start it because anything might spoil the twist(s). Also I really enjoyed the writing (after I got over the confusing part in the beginning :D) So, I did. think a lot about how I rate this book. Because of the struggles I had at the beginning. If I didn’t know that other people really enjoyed the second half and felt similar to me in the beginning I probably would have stopped reading after the first 100 pages. But I am so glad that I didn’t! Hence my confusion about the rating. But not often I am so captivated by a book as I was with this one in the end. So, it might be more of a 3,5 stars for me overall but I would definitely recommend reading this book if you are into dark thrillers (would really categorise this as horror)!
A story that seems very familiar. There is a missing girl, a weird man in a boarded up house who regularly looses hours if not days he can’t remember, and the sister of the missing girl still on the search years later. But then there’s also a talking cat and this is where things got a bit more interesting. The story is small in scope, taking place only with a handful of characters and locations, which makes it very easy too read and it flows great. The atmosphere throughout is very tense and the slow dripping of new information keeps the mystery interesting. That is until at a certain point the “unreliable narrator” trope is getting a bit too much and it became pretty clear where the story will be going. There was a lot of drag in the third act and some chapters blended together because the characters kept repeating the same stuff again and again. In the end it was enjoyable enough because it took some turns away from the usual tropes.