Hushed, like its remembering.When I see the front page my stomach goes into curls and knots. Stephen King called Sundial Authentically terrifying. This isnt just a thriller; its a sleek, diabolical, stress-inducing machine. Jonathan Janz, author of, Tor Nightfire; 1st edition (September 28, 2021). A stolen child. STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire! A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. Or maybe thats fish. I love this book! THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET is psychological horror of the highest order, disguised as a Russian doll of a novel, with layer within layer holding new characters and secrets. I knew what kind of dogs they were. * * *I put Little Girl With Popsiclethe newspaper with her picture in it, I meanin the closet under the stairs. Okay, Im making quick connection: not only to add to your list, please read it! I just love how this book was written. Ted was questioned, but had an alibi. Ward writes, What was Dee feeds the earth. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. I loved every moment of it and Im keeping the book so I can read it again from a new perspective later on. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. I couldnt put it down. It was summer, bright and hot as the surface of a star. It really messed with my mind. I have a little request for those of you whove already read this. The Last House on Needless Street keeps the reader on the knifes edge of the fantastic for most of the book, which contributes to building the suspense and tension that propels the story forward. Breathtaking. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The JournalStone Network is your source for horror news and reviews. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward is the latest novel from the multi-award-winning gothic author. Most of the book takes place in Ted's house or the surrounding woods area. Mommy and Daddy smiled down from the photograph. THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET blew me away. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. The real villain of the story, though not revealed in her entirety until the end, is Teds mother. The police searched the houses of everyone in the county who might hurt children. share. Mommy told him that these were the most dangerous kinds of wounds. Often books with multiple POVs are confusing, but the authors style of writing made it flow well and easy to read. This is one of the best books Ive read in quite some time. When you tell someone about a book you're reading you don't recount the plot; you tell them how the book makes you feel, something it makes you think about, or how it causes you to reflect on shared experiences. No hunting cabin, nothing like that? She wiped sweat off her top lip. So therefore, I wont go into specifics on the book, just my thoughts on it overall. I fetch a big Tupperware box, baking soda and the white vinegar from under the sink. We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. I have given her something else to feel. Bannerman, is this your only residence? An Indie Next Pick!A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!A Library Journal Editors' Pick! Somehow the ending is peaceful and happy, which isnt cheesy in this case because everyone in the novel has endured such hardship that a peaceful ending is the least they all deserve. I really liked Little Eve. The Last House on Needless Street has been called a horror novel or a gothic thriller. Bravo. Joanne Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki"The new face of literary dark fiction." The Last House on Needless Street follows Ted, who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. Rarely do I struggle to find words about a book that I loved, but I find myself in that position right now. I feel bad for all those dogs and cats and rabbits and mice. I was completely enthralled. Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman"A breathtakingly ambitious book, gorgeously written, and never once shies away from showing you its fangs and its beautiful blood-filled heart. Were neighbors. It kept me glued and guessing right up to the endI loved every inch of it." He lies in the dead center of the lawn. Summaries. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. I get that look all the time. You can see this, especially through the relationship he had with his mother. You got to look after yourself, Ted, she says. The book was well written and certainly had its moments but the ending was extremely disappointing. "Brilliant.[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." Instead, its exciting. I dont know, I felt like all those big reveals thrown at us in the last parts were too muchI mean come on, too much going on with such a narrow character list. "The buzzis real. A pigeon is the last to die; the rise and fall of its plump chest grows shallow, and then it falls still.The Murderer has made me into a murderer too.I put the corpses in the trash out back. The Last House on Needless Street is finally out! When I try to separate them, feathers part from flesh. Their unified assault on the King of Spades has resulted in victory. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I realize that I am not wearing shoes or socks. I've read it and was blown away. Now he has a new neighbour, a woman called Dee, Lulu's sister. So much so that I believe I won't truly appreciate each and every word until I read it a second time to appreciate the author's character building from a new perspective. Really good summing up of the book's flaws here: https://medium.com/wayward-magazine/im-so-mad-about-the-last-house-on-needless-street-57a2f9b16f88. Twists and turns. This is one of the best books Ive read in quite some time. Its your turn to make breakfast. She looks at me with those yellow-green eyes then pads away. I felt like I was going crazy. I would say I inhaled this in one, but I think I was too busy holding my breath throughout. Like most horror, Wards book takes its emotional undercurrents from unavoidable mortality; like great horror, it utilizes fear to force readers to contemplate that mortality. But, the main thing which kept me reading to the end was the need to figure out what was really going on. But I kept going because I was confused and felt that I might still be right. Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023. A brutal, twisty, puzzle box of a book. Both novels are critical darlings & both are horror-adjacent . Time is iffy and everyone is erratic. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. I never went near the lake or Little Girl With Popsicle.When they finally finished and let me back in the house I could smell them all over. Your email address will not be published. I got a free e-copy through NetGalley about a week ago. Some twists I liked better than others. It looks like WhatsApp is not installed on your phone. One of the most powerful and well-executed novels I've read in years." Just incredible. I stayed up way past my bedtime. T. Broadly, the novel follows Ted, a man living alone in his mid-30s, his daughter Lauren, his lesbian Bible-reading cat Olivia and a woman named Dee who lost her younger sister in an abduction years ago. As a result this isnt an easy read. Ward won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel for her debut, The Girl from Rawblood, and again for Little Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice. 'Little Eve' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award and the August Derleth Prize for Best Horror Novel at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards, making her the only woman to have won the prize twice, and was a Guardian best book of 2018. I know whats on it. Ward also innovates the tropes of medical and body horror, which are routinely explored in detail in the visual form but are more challenging to accomplish in the literary form. Over 3 million titles. The can flies wide and hits the fence post with a noise like dunggg. The foot looks much worse after; the skin is red and raw. We have a problem with that around here, especially by the lake, so things happened fast. It is constructed with extraordinary care. Your mother would be worried sick about you.I see that my foot is leakinga dark red trickle across the concrete. Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2023. Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her EyesYou dont read The Last House on Needless Streetyou survive it. Many are dead, maybe twenty. I recall reading something somewhere that birds have lice. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! She was born far away, Mommy, under a dark star.I think, Just leave it there, forget Ive seen it. He is . It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." Even after two reads, I am confident that there will continue to be details, little tiny snippets that Ward scatters throughout the novel, that resolve themselves in their entirety at the end of the book. I clean my hands with the floor stuff too. I think everything I read for the rest of this year will pale in comparison. One hundred and thirty-two years of editorial freedom, The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward is the kind of horror that seeps into your bones, the kind that makes you think you might be a little messed up for even reading it, the kind that makes you want to stare the author straight in the eyes and ask, Who hurt you?. It is a genre that allows for exploration of the awful, terrible, horrible parts of humanity in order to find something that is strangely beautiful. Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel! I think about drowning them and then hitting them on the head with a hammer. Recommended for anyone interested in horror with well-realized characters and a claustrophobic, intense setting." Reading Guides for The Last House on Needless Street On Kindle Scribe, you can add sticky notes to take handwritten notes in supported book formats. SFF World"This is a true page-turner. STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!One of Library Journal's Best Horror Books of 2021.Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire! It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end.". Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. Some are not. Ted is an odd sort of a fellow. This book was like an onion. I was immediately hooked from the very first page, and I did not want to put it down. "Brilliant.[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." spoiler I just finished it, I completely agree there was TOO much going on, I kind of figured where it was going with Ted, it was kind of obvious when they were at the mall with Lauren. I highly recommend this book. Discussion spoiler. Every depiction of abuse in this novel is uniquely horrifying, but that of Teds mother is particularly bad, especially with its roots in make-you-squirm medical horror. Teds house is the last house on Needless Street, and next to it are the woods. shammon5 1 yr. ago. 420 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, Edited and managed by the students at the University of Michigan since 1890, Innovative horror with a satisfying twist in The Last House on Needless Street. It takes me three breaths to make sense of what I see. (I call her Eloise. Her debut Rawblood (W&N, 2015) won Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, was shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award and a WHSmith Fresh Talent title. A decade before, As every other reviewer here will say: it's hard to review this book without spoilers. So many. This is finally out! Edition: Main. Some say the concept has been done to death, but you could argue the same thing about everything ever created (movies, tv shows, books, whatever). A Library Journal Editors' Pick! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2021, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2021, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2021, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2021, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2021, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. DID, in this case, is a way for someone being abused to cope with that abuse. Ted is a recluse, living in a boarded up house at the end of Needless Street with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia. I like the local because it has a rare bird alertyou can write in if you see something special, like a Northern Flicker or a Siberian Accentor. Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2023. I felt this, particularly in the flashback scenes as we see what happened in Teds childhood. Ted believes that an intruder has been inside his house. Couldn't handle the lukewarm purple prose and near total absence of suspense. There's a lake at the end of Needless Street, a place families have enjoyed for generations. Then I think, I have to clean up. I really liked Little Eve. The New York TimesCatriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.A teenage girl who isnt allowed outside, not after last time.A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.The new face of literary dark fiction. Sarah Pinborough, Organize a Book Club Catriona Ward is far from done with you yet. There is a truth we begin to see relatively. NPR"[P]erhaps the slipperiest psychological study in the annals of horrora book with secrets as sorrowful as they are appalling." I would say I inhaled this in one, but I think I was too busy holding my breath throughout. Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group. The person with mental illness is not vilified, and neither is the condition itself; as a careful reader, I was left with no negative feelings about DID or the character who has it in the novel. The security tape says so. TED BANNERMANToday is the anniversary of Little Girl With Popsicle. Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy"Brilliant. Sounds like some people just expect too much from books these days. So the Murderer could be out there right now, a couple of houses down, eating pizza or whatever and laughing at me. Honestly I don't get angry about figuring out what's going on in a story because to me that means the writing is good and has enough clues that someone who's paying attention could reasonably figure it out. I listened as they pushed back the ugly blue rug in the living room, tore up the floorboards and knocked a hole in the wall in the back of my closet because they thought it sounded hollow. I kept reading because of the amazing reviews. Thanks! Notes.I dont listen to the tape. Eloise the ballerina stood proud and upright, arms perfect and poised above her head. * * *Olivia lands heavily on my stomach first thing, making high-pitched sounds like clockwork. They twitch, caught helpless on what looks like pieces of tan paper. Her voice had a slight hitch around the consonants; she couldnt quite get rid of it. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting. The Chihuahua lady is standing right up close. Whats done is done. 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