Riley SagerThriller · Psychological Thriller·b. 1974
The Only One Left
Synopsis
In 1983, home health aide Kit McDeere is sent to Hope's End, a decaying mansion perched on the eroding cliffs of the Maine coast. Her new patient is Lenora Hope, an elderly woman who is mute, confined to a wheelchair, and infamous: in 1929, when she was seventeen, her entire family was murdered at Hope's End, and although the police were never able to prove she did it, the rumour has followed her for more than fifty years.
Unable to speak, Lenora communicates by tapping out words on an old typewriter, and one night she offers to tell Kit exactly what happened. As her typed account of 1929 unspools alongside Kit's own days in the house, the details begin to contradict one another — and Kit, who came to Hope's End carrying a disgrace of her own, grows steadily less certain that anyone there can be trusted, least of all the woman she was hired to care for.
Riley Sager's Gothic thriller braids 1929 and 1983 into a twisting mystery about guilt, memory, inheritance, and the stories people tell in order to survive them.
How it reads
- Writing3.0
- Impact2.5
- Characters2.5
- Plot4.0
- Atmosphere3.0
Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (2)
ViolenceDeath Of A Parent
Readers say (1)Fast · Moderate · Mysterious · Atmospheric · Tense · Family Saga · Marriage of Convenience
Readers flagged (4)
Sexual ContentViolenceGraphic ViolenceSuicide
- Juro que livro bom!! Acho q nunca li um mistério tão bom. Me deixou totalmente imersa. A escrita desse autor traz pedaços de informação a cada fim de capítulo que te fazem querer mais e não conseguir soltar esse livro. Fiquei agoniada com algumas cenas, mas principalmente com essa casa torta esquisita, com ctz ficaria clinicamente maluca com tudo torto, os barulhos e o não saber se a "lenora" matou ou não a familia, ainda mais com literalmente todo mundo ser inimigo da verdade. Muitos plot twists que eu não esperava, e eu amoo ser pega de surpresa por esses livros. E o final foi tão fofo! Mt satisfatorio. Curti demaiss esse livro!!
- I’m honestly still in shock. This book fooled me the entire time! The only thing I actually guessed was the whole “true identity” thing, but everything else? I was totally played like an idiot. Okay, I’ll admit I’m not exactly the sharpest when it comes to thrillers lol but still, this story was just so incredible. It was my first Riley Sager book and I definitely plan on picking up more, ‘cause I loved his writing too. I do wish we’d gotten a little more out of this story though…
- I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT IT!! I don't think I have given any 5 star rating to a thriller book since the summer of 2016 when I first read Devotion of Suspect X. That book set the bar way too high. And I am glad I felt somewhat similar emotions while reading this. Bloody brilliant!! Highly recommend it.
- PENUH DG PLOT TWIST