![]() We occasionally get a few chapters told from the perspective of Dee, a woman whose younger sister Lulu disappeared when they were little, and Dee suspects Ted was the kidnapper so she moves in next to him in an attempt to revive the cold case. He drinks too much, and because Olivia is a god-fearing cat who loves Ted despite her disgust with his bad habits, she stays permanently indoors, only having a few glimpses of a neighborhood cat to look forward to each day. Ted and Olivia live mostly in the dark because he’s boarded up the windows with plywood. He has only his cat Olivia for company, and he rarely leaves the house. Ted is a middle-aged, jobless man who lives by himself in the house he grew up in as a child. And yet, it was unputdownable despite this dark subject matter, so although it’s not the spooky haunted house I was expecting for my Halloween reading, I was terrified all the same. ![]() I pushed through because I suspected (based on the cover blurbs) that I was purposely being misled, and the twist of all twists eventually changed my mind, but I do feel as though this book should come with some sort of trigger warning because it delves quite deeply into child abuse and neglect. The writing itself was not the problem, it was what the characters were doing to each other, or at least, what we are led to believe they are doing to each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() I got about halfway through The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward and debated closing the book for good – I just wasn’t sure I could handle it anymore. ![]()
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