The Only One Left
By Riley Sager
Hope’s End is a 36-room coastal gothic mansion perched on
cliffs where the Atlantic crashes below…it is totally dramatic, eerie, and
dripping with history.
Every character has their own take on the past, but the real
story is Lenora Hope, now in her 70s, the sole survivor of a family murdered 54
years ago. Townspeople never believed her innocence, turning her into a living
legend…or nightmare. She was reduced to
a creepy little song sung by everyone:
At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope
Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life
“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead
Enter Kit McDeere, reluctantly taking a job as Lenora’s
caregiver. Lenora is paralyzed and mute from strokes, and Kit’s last patient
died on her watch…so yeah, she’s desperate for work. Things get creepier when
Kit learns the previous caregiver vanished without a trace.
Would you stay? She does.
Lenora finally decides to reveal her story via typewriter,
slowly unraveling decades of mystery. The suspense is real, the twists are
plenty…
But, let’s be honest: pretending to be an invalid for
decades? Waiting decades for revenge on your sister…as a “prank”…mind blown.
Some of the plot twists are equal parts thrilling and head-scratchingly absurd.
Despite the eyebrow-raising moments, I liked the gothic
chills, dark secrets, and enough suspense that it kept me turning pages.
Just don’t ask me to explain Lenora’s life choices.
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