“She’s capable of so little yet accused of so much, and I remain torn between wanting to protect her and the urge to suspect her.” – 5/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: wheelchairs, cliffs, murders, caretakers, strokes, and typewriters.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.

“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

This book was INSANEEE!
I’m fully convinced Riley Sager can’t write a bad book because… WOW, what the hell just happened? It was so difficult to put this book down because there was always something going on.
The writing is amazing! It’s crazy the number of plot twists and turns this book has. I also really liked the pacing and the creepy gothic atmosphere; it really set the tone for the story. I think it’s so interesting that this author creates stories that are so full of detail and with plenty of characters that the reader can’t trust. I can’t even fathom how authors put together books like this!
Of course, I had no idea what was going on until the very end… and I could never have predicted it!
I think for now it’s safe to say Riley Sager has become my go-to thriller author, and I can’t recommend his books enough!