The Only One Left: A Novel

I loved this book from the very start! A chilling children’s rhyme based on a real life triple murder; Riley Sager was able to keep the twists and turns up until the last page!

I enjoyed the surprising twists and turns but found too many of them unbelievable.

I thought this story was written very well, I was captivated through the whole read. I think the ending/coming to realization moment was just too much. Everything that could have been a twist, WAS a twist. It made for a great story and I enjoyed it but it just felt like too much.

Alison - 4/5 very interesting and kept attention the whole time. Summer - 4/5 well written and loved the story line and wanted to know what was next Tori - 4/5 loved the plot and was interested the whole time Shelby - 3/5 interesting plot but too many unrealistic twists and unbelievable

This is a book about twists. The beginning was a little slow for me, hard for me to connect and the gothic element of the house wasn’t strong enough. It might just be because the author isn’t a strong enough writer for a gothic, but regardless—the Hope Mansion didn’t feel alive. The first twist, I was down with. The 2nd? Not so much. By the time the 3rd floated around, I was over it. I thought the 1st twist was clever but it was TOLD and never shown—the truth revealed in an odd, boring way. The 2nd twist just felt coincidental and cheap, polluting the final twist. I didn’t mind the 3rd twist but the 2nd one ruined it for me so I had lost my interest. I enjoyed the ending obituary a lot and would have loved to have it unfold differently. Oh well! Read this book if you love twists and the mystery of affairs, children from those affairs and fucked up thjngs families do to each other.