the last house on needless street ending

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for an ALC of this incredible audiobook.

I read some reviews after I finished the book that spoiled the main twist, so beware! The description is vague on purpose, and the best thing to do is just dive in without any information. I’m not sure how to review it in its entirety without spoilers, so I will keep my thoughts brief on public forums and invite everyone who’s read it to my blog post (coming soon) for a spoiler discussion. This is probably the best-executed book I have read so far this year. Thank you so much to Tor Nightfire for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Ted’s alters integrate, he gets therapy from a real therapist, and starts to become a part of society again. Snakes were her one true fear because they slithered out from under Lulu’s body when she found it. The last twist was that Ted’s mother was the one who took Lulu’s body for more of her medical experiments. The clues were definitely there–the bike riding, shopping for the leggings, hints about how Lauren couldn’t go outside. Once I found out about Olivia though, I did start to think that Lauren was an alter as well. I knew Ted was innocent, but I didn’t guess the DID storyline. Ted’s therapist was also abusing him and making his condition worse. His mother apparently used to experiment on him surgically, which caused his scars and is what her tapes were about. Ted stayed “inside” in his own mind whenever his mother was in a bad mood. We then find out that Lauren is another alter of Ted’s, created when he was just a child, and that he gave all the pain of his mother’s abuse to Lauren so that he didn’t have to endure it.

Dee was looking for Lulu’s body but had lied so convincingly over the years that she herself believed Lulu was still alive. Dee saw her dead body, but the police/adults never found it. Lulu had followed Dee while she hit on Trevor, and while Dee and Trevor were fooling around, Lulu slipped on some rocks and hit her head and died. In her delirium, we find out that her memory about that day at the beach had been unreliable. Nighttime is another alter, but I can’t remember if he really had much point other than helping to integrate them.ĭee chases Ted through the woods thinking that he has Lauren in a bag and is going to kill her, but is bit by a snake. At this point, we still think that Lauren is Lulu. First we find out that Olivia is one of Lauren’s alters, created to hide from the pain that Ted was causing her.

The last house on needless street ending