Natilie ‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡🪐༘⋆ (semi-hiatus)'s Reviews > The Only One Left

4.5/5 🔪 🩸

This genuinely shocked me, I had been in such a thriller slump prior to this and this gave me that adrenaline feeling. A gothic old mansion atop an eroding cliffside, full of dark rich family secrets. I was too afraid to read this at night. The plot twists just kept on coming and I didn't see them coming.

♡︎.ᐟજ⁀➴ Plot:

As rumour has it, Lenora Hope murdered her mother, father and sister in their home. Since then she suffers multiple strokes that leave her paralysed and in need of constant care. Our main character Kit, a carer, gets this assignment as punishment for letting a previous patient die on her watch.

This was so eerie and and exhilarating, the plot moved at a good pace and was just addicting. It has a somewhat isolated setting with the presence of an unreliable narrator (both of my favourites.) It was unpredictable - and this is coming from someone who has read 18 other thrillers this year (all of which were somewhat predictable and underwhelming). All parts of the story come together and get tied up in a neat little bow. The ending felt extremely satisfying right up until the last page.

♡︎.ᐟજ⁀➴ Characters:

In thrillers, I feel like most of the time their often too short to get attached to the characters - I can't say too much with out spoilers, but the only character I really resonated with was (view spoiler)[ Virginia (Lenora), who I was picturing as like an older woman who still is firey and cheeky (hide spoiler)]

I feel like they all are well developed characters though and they are all written really well - I felt they all got their deserved ending. I found Kit a bit frustrating sometimes in the way that she was quite brash, but other than that I enjoyed following her journey ♡.

₊˚⊹♡ reading log

hours of reading: 5.6
avg. minutes per session: 18
avg. pages per minute: 3.3

14/06 11:31am
oh my goodness i did NOT see that coming that's so wild, i sort of got an inkling that the plot twist would be in that overall area because of the few chapters before it, but honestly i thought it was heading towards a completely different direction

13/06 11:10pm
so now i’m too scared to read this at night - i’m suddenly aware of all my surroundings and looking out my window constantly - this is going to give me nightmares

13/06 9:13am °˖➴
i'm at 30% and I don't have any theories yet, which is unlike me but this jessie girl drives me up the wall

12/06 8:06pm °˖➴
i am getting creepy vibes off the bat this is a good sign:)

₊˚⊹♡ pre-reading

i am on the hunt for a thrilling thriller please it’s been so long - this has been on the TBR for a hot minute so let’s get stuck in ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

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june tbr:

ಇ. first lie wins
ಇ. the only one left
ಇ. leather & lark
ಇ. if something happens to me
ಇ. the familiar
ಇ. the warm hands of ghosts
ಇ. a court of silver flames
+ the ballad of never after