AngelFA (Hiatus)'s Reviews > The Only One Left

Riley, here takes this.... 🔫 and shoot me already! Cause I'm done with this s*** show.

Can I get at least one decent and likeable character from this book? Is it that hard to write only one good character so I can root for him/her through this entire hell ride?

"I want to tell you everything things ive never told anyone else yes about that night because i trust you"

"You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am. The answer is no. And yes."

"At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope, stabbed her father with a knife, took her mother’s happy life"

SUMMARY:
Kit McDeere, she is a caregiver. After being suspended for six months by her agency because she is alleged to have killed her patient, she returns to work and is assigned to become a full-time nurse for an old lady that lives on the cliffs inside a massive mansion.

Lenora Hope, she is now seventy-one years old. Over the past twenty years, she's suffered a series of strokes that have left her mute, paralyzed, and confined to a wheelchair. All she has is limited use of her left arm. Hope's family had been murdered on October 29, 1929; her parents and sister were dead inside that mansion, and the only one left was Lenora Hope, who everyone believes is the murderer. But now she wants to tell Kit everything about what happened that night, and as she begins typing, the truth starts to reveal itself......

👁️ This story is told in first person POV alternate between (Kit and Lenora (?))

🕰️ There is a Dual Timelines in here (Past and Present).

⚠️So here is the thing: since the positive and negative things in this book come together, I'm going to put them all together in "MY THOUGHTS."⚠️

MY THOUGHTS:
📌 I really loved how the story began; it literally hooked me up from the opening because it was told from Lenora's POV, which made me feel the mystery and start guessing right from the first page.

Right from the start, I felt like I was exactly inside Hope's End (the name of the mansion). I really enjoyed 'The Murder Tour'," and how and where they got killed were presented in that tour. And I was picturing it inside my head.

📌 This book is very well written; how the house looks and every room that the character visits are perfectly described. You can get the full picture of those things that the author wanted to tell you. But here's the thing: because it perfectly described every single thing, I felt the story started slowy.

Also, the author is not using the apostrophe mark when Lenora is typing to inform or ask Kit for something. I liked this detail since we know the only thing that works is her left arm, so why bother with an apostrophe mark?

But the detail also became a major problem in this book; some things were certainly overdescribed.

📌 The Characters
As I said in my opening, there is literally no likeable character in this book; even the main character herself (Kit) was NAH. Also, Lenora's POV was very intense and interesting at first, but I don't know the more I read from her POV, the more I felt "digusting." Well...'disgusting' is the right word to describe all of these emotions.

📌 The Twist
Before I explain the twist in this book, I want to give you a little bit of an explanation: "What is a great twist for me?" For me a great twist is not something jaw dropping or caught me off guard. But the definition of great twist for me is something that makes more sense, acceptable, or at least have a little bit of reality check to the story itself. And the last one that didn't end up looking like it was forced to be there. It's okay to be predictable as long as there is a sense inside it.

And unfortunately, I couldn't find a great twist in this book, but I want to do some justice to the twist. Not all of the twists in this book are bad, but I will rule out that this one is not my cup of tea, so it might work out for you but not for me. I felt the twist was too forced out to be the twist.

📌 The Ending
Bwhahaha😂, i don't know what to say.
If i want to put it in one word i think i'm going to use "Weird".

📌 Why 2 Stars?
I don't usually want to give specific explaination what makes me give this book 2 stars, but this time I think I should. It was because of my very high anticipation and expectation toward the author and the story. I was really excited when I finally read this book, and those things went too high, and that's why at the end it felt flat. I expected more, but this is all I got, so yeah, 2 stars.

If you lower your expectations a little bit, it might be work out very well for you.

I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL:
☠️ When a 31-year-old woman fucked a 20-year-old boy who appears to be her neighbor. They even fucked before Kit left her house to take care of Lenora; for what use are you telling me their story? Duhhh🙄




☠️ The wild thoughts that some characters had I don't know how to react to those thoughts. I found it cool, but at the same time, it also bothered me.

☠️ I can't understand Kit's father; to be honest, he was very odd, unreasonable, a douchebag, and a piece of sh*t.

WHAT I FELT WHEN I WAS READING THIS BOOK:
#{1%-5%}
For f*cking sure, I was being overly excited.

#{5%-30%}
I started to think about what kind of book I read; it was still good, but Jesus, it's hard to explain *sigh*

#{30%-55%}
I was losing my patience and getting tired of the house, the rooms, and the people's descriptions.

#{55%-60%}
I was thinking maybe I should move on and leave this book behind. (DNF'd)

#{60%-70%}
I saw hope, and I got this: maybe I can finish this book.

#{70%-100%}
The story was getting more ridiculous, and the twist was also getting more unacceptable, but never mind as long as I can finish this book. Since I'm no longer excited.

OVERALL:
Uhmm, well yeah I was disappointed🙂.




CREDIT:
Thank you NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton, for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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