The Only One Left by Riley Sager
on August 26, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Horror / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
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. It was unpredictable and somewhat hard to follow with all the twists and turns and amount of characters. Some of the plot twists are so wild you’ll be tempted to roll your eyes, but by then you’re already so deep in the web that you just go with it. And honestly? It’s a good time.
Four stars for this twisting thriller. The creaky old mansion is the perfect backdrop for this creepy story, and I hadn’t a clue what was really going on, who or what to believe, but of course that made it all the more interesting! With twist after twist towards the end, Sagar has created a story of mystery and suspense that ensures the pages keep on turning ever faster.
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