First let me start by saying that this book is very confusing at first. Don’t give up on it. I almost did but I’m so glad I didn’t. This book is told in many perspectives that may seem silly or confusing but I promise it all comes together and pays off in the end.

4.5What a heartbreaking read about the effects of abuse and how DID can develop! Excellent book that actually ties up loose ends satisfactorily. Many times, the explanation of the weird that's going on is disappointing but this was realistic and even more sad when you think about what the mind has to do to cope with traumatic experiences.

The Last House On Needless Street is one of the best mind-boggling books I have ever read. I had no clue what was happening until the very end. Several times I thought maybe I was losing my mind.This book is written in such a way that it’s almost like a puzzle with 1,000 pieces. 50 pieces are missing, 12 have been gnawed on by a cat and the rest are just scattered everywhere. Holy smokes this was a good book!

Very interesting book with lots of twists and turns that leave you wondering if you feel sympathy for a predator or a simple man. A story that highlights the mental health of those who have had long histories of trauma wrapped up into a not so typical horror story.

I greatly appreciate the research the author did on this book and the bibliography of citations at the end.

I think this is literally my favorite book of the year in my reading! It has everything I like in a book. I switched between paper copy and audio and the audio reader was absolutely astounding!

The author's literary expertise shines in The Last House on Needless Street. Previous reviews have mentioned reader confusion. Ms.Ward uses writing style to foreshadow plot. The reader must be open to noticing more than character development and obvious story building to minimize confusion. The author is elusive with story building and confusion is inevitable if the reader doesn't have any knowledge of psychology. I will limit my recommendation of this book to specific people. It's heavy and qui...

It is hard to know where to begin with this book. Let us start with our main characters; Ted and Olivia. Ted is a single man who lives alone in his boarded up house with his cat, Olivia. Occasionally Ted's daughter, Lauren, comes to visit. When Lauren visits, Olivia is put away because they apparently do not get along. Ted was wrapped up in a police case years ago when a young girl goes missing. The police searched his house but did not find anything that worked against him. Since that day, he o...

This book starts off beyond confusing and is honestly ALL over the place. As a reader, you have no idea what is going on. I repeat NO idea. I honestly don't understand why this book is rated so high? maybe I am missing something but to me this book was straight-up awful. I don't want to " spoil" anything so I will end this review now.

I realize this is an unpopular review but for anyone who is able to follow this one, kudos to you! For me, this was utterly confusing and left me questioning my own sanity at the end. One of those novels that I finish and say to myself ‘wait a second….WHAT?!’ I enjoyed the characters, especially the whimsical and funny cat, and the subject matter was intriguing although disturbing. I just couldn’t stay focused and in the end, I still had unanswered questions.

This was an interesting book with slow development and rotating viewpoints. It had me on the edge of my seat. The choice to narrate from a cat's point of view had me skimming sometimes but was definitely unique. (view spoiler)[ The part that I didn't like was Dee's fate. The sudden twist where you find out the main character isn't the villain was fine, but her death and story imply that she is somewhat of a villain and it is treated very oddly. She was essentially just a child who went into shoc...

4.5 stars... I wasn’t sure what was happening and what I thought might be happening about a third of the way in wasn’t then about 2/3’s in I thought something else was happening then pieces of it started to come out and at the end I was left with my mouth open thinking you really don’t know people, do you?!

I might have to come back and read this book again when I don’t have young kids distracting me every second of me reading. I was not a fan of the writing style, although I understand the appeal. I was also more confused than “creeped out”, but it’s a book that needs your entire attention span, and not just a piece of it.

Well, Plop! Ahaha! Laughing so hard ! I wasn’t reading a sneak peak. That just shows you how confused I am at the moment. Why ? This book and allergy medication. Trying to get things shifted around… might as well laugh about it. Soon we get to pile on DST. Isn’t life beautiful 🤩! 5 sneezy stars 🤧 Jk. My library hold came in 51%. Sigh.

Well that was fun... I have no clue what to say hahaha. Firstly, it took me a little bit to get into the groove of the writing. It may be different for others, but once I understood that there were different perspectives and the author would go back and forth from them, I was okay. Also, I listened to this as an audiobook, so it may read differently than listening to it. There’s a part of me that thinks that won’t be the case, lol. It took me a bit… I should point out that I’m not keen on the au...

I have mixed feelings about this book.This is quite an ambitious work but unfortunately I did not find it remarkable.I enjoyed the writing but I did not like the development of the storyline.The beginning was quite confusing and I had no idea what I was reading. I almost quit it.Also, I did not feel the eerie or creepy atmosphere that everyone was talking about.As the story progresses I was able to finally understand where it was going.I think that my main frustration is that I hate being misled...

What just happened to my brain? I thought I knew where this story was going about seven times and every time what I thought got turned upside down on it's head. So good in the way that my mind might never be put right again, but wow on story telling and character building and yeesh. That was a wild ride.

This book promised to blow your mind. Numerous authors sang its praises, telling potential readers to wait until the major twists at the end. However, before the "twists" it was utterly confusing and I had no idea what I was reading. I ordinarily don't mind books that are puzzles. In fact, if they are done well, I enjoy them as the story spools out and becomes more clear. This didn't really happen at any point. I guess one could say that clarity showed up around page 222. For me, that is just to...

This is the kind of book that I can appreciate for the author's art. The voice, prose, and pacing are an achievement of enviable skill. No matter how repulsed I was, I continued to read, and that is a testament to the Ward's mastery of storytelling.However, this isn't the kind of horror that I enjoy reading. It rolled a little too close to torture porn in places, although Ward never descended into using gore for shock value. Even though it's not the kind of book I'd normally pick up due to the s...

Eleven years ago, Lulu, a six year old girl, went missing on a day trip to a lakeside beach. Nobody seems to know what happened to Lulu but it is presumed that she was abducted.Her life destroyed by Lulu's disappearance, her sister, Dee, has made it her mission to find Lulu. Or, failing that, to find the abductor.Dee's suspicions fall on a peculiar man who lives near the lake, Ted. Ted a reclusive man whose home has its windows boarded up and three locks on his door.Ted lives with his daughter,