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Average rating3.4
“If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.”—Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story. In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write. It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives. But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can’t be real – notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn’t recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder? No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does. “An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you don’t see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut.”—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Muggy, dark, dreamy, cryptic, longing, tangled
Adaptations of adaptations of memoirs written in journals left in backpacks
Like all of Ward's work, it's a Lot. But what lands, lands hard. Totally worth a look if almost overly metatextual queer psychodrama is something of interest.
Rating: 4.22 leaves out of 5-Characters: 4/5 -Cover: 4/5-Story: 4.75/5-Writing: 5/5Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller-Fantasy: 3/5-Horror: 3/5-Mystery: 5/5-Thriller: 5/5 Type: AudiobookWorth?: YESHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked Loved FavoritedWant to thank Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this book.Wow wow wow wow... just wow. I love Cat. I need to get that out there. This is my second book by her and the second time I am just... blown away. She has a special gift. Cat's writing is like a careful planned maze that make you think you are going the right way until you hit that dead in. The twists and turns in this book is just spot on. Why you love it and only gave it 4 stars? There were times that seemed liked they dragged a bit. It wasn't high on the fantasy and horror as well, which is okay because she was very high in the mystery and thriller aspects. As for the characters... they are like Nesting Dolls, that is all I am freaking saying. YOU NEED TO COME INTO THIS WITH AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE.