The Last House on Needless Street

A story that seems very familiar. There is a missing girl, a weird man in a boarded up house who regularly looses hours if not days he can't remember, and the sister of the missing girl still on the search years later.

But then there's also a talking cat and this is where things got a bit more interesting.

The story is small in scope, taking place only with a handful of characters and locations, which makes it very easy too read and it flows great.

The atmosphere throughout is very tense and the slow dripping of new information keeps the mystery interesting.

That is until at a certain point the “unreliable narrator” trope is getting a bit too much and it became pretty clear where the story will be going. There was a lot of drag in the third act and some chapters blended together because the characters kept repeating the same stuff again and again.

In the end it was enjoyable enough because it took some turns away from the usual tropes.