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The Last Word by Taylor Adams


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  • Book Name: The Last Word
  • Authors: Taylor Adams
  • Pages: 276
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Publish Date: Apr 25, 2023
  • Language: English
  • Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
  • Price: Free

Book Review:


The Last Word by Taylor Adams So basically, our main character Emma, she moves to this Coastal House in Washington, and she's there to house sit for a while. It's just her and her dog. We know that she is battling something like she has depression; something in her past has caused her to have this depression, and she also is just kind of a recluse, I guess. 

So, she goes and she's house-sitting. She only has one neighbor, Deke, and they communicate through a whiteboard; they each have one that they write to each other and they use telescopes or binoculars to read each other's board because it's the off-season, and no one's really living there. These are mostly vacation homes, and since it's not the vacation season, it's just the two of them.

She takes or spends a lot of time reading. That's really all she does. She sits around and reads on her Kindle and hangs out with her dog. We know there's something going on mentally with her; we know that her neighbor Deke is, she suspects, he's an alcoholic. She sees him drink a lot, and she does some sleuthing on him and realizes that he used to be a writer or a retired journalist, and he wrote this really famous True Crime novel. But other than that, her whole world, this whole book is this house that she's in.

Since she spends a lot of time reading, Deke knows this from seeing her through the windows from them chit-chatting. They play Hangman together as well. He recommends a book to her, and she decides to read it. It is like this horror novel that she absolutely hates, like she thinks it's the most horribly written book she's ever read. 

She doesn't like the characters, nothing about it. She ends up going on an Amazon or reading reviews and realizes that all these people are praising this book, and she doesn't understand why. At one point, she's like, "One of these people is this author's mother because I can't believe anybody's writing these positive reviews." So, she decides to go on and write a one-star review, and she actually gets a response from the author. He messages her and says, "Hey, you need to take this down. I worked really hard on this book. You're affecting my livelihood, and it's not okay for you to put a negative review out there."

I found this really funny because I've seen a lot of discussions and live shows over the past couple of years on Booktube and stuff about who reviews are for and if authors should read reviews, and if they do, should they comment on them, should they approach reviewers, or things of that sort. So, it's really funny because Emma, even at one point, she's thinking to herself, "Isn't this an unwritten rule that authors never do this?" 

So, that was kind of funny, but the author obviously is very angry about her review, and she's like, "No, I'm not gonna take it down. This is my review, too bad, so sad essentially." And so, obviously, he doesn't take very kindly to that, and things start to happen to Emma at her house that she's staying at. She starts to hear things; she starts to get wafts of smelling something as well. She doesn't know if it's cologne or food or something, and then one night she's half asleep, and she thinks she sees someone standing at the end of her bed. And this kind of all takes off from there.

Essentially, this book starts really quickly, and you get thrown right into it. I feel like if you've read his previous works, "No Exit" and "Hairpin Bridge," you know that it's kind of like just pedal to the metal right off the bat. And once Emma starts experiencing these little things more and more, things start happening. 

The owner of the home contacts her because she's getting notifications on her ring doorbell; some weird guy in a mask is standing on her porch in the middle of the night. Emma thinks she hears him; she gets like, you know, like this. It's very creepy. There are definitely some very creepy aspects to this because essentially it's like a home invasion-type novel, and it is very creepy at times.

This book took me a few days to read, but essentially, that is because I have a child. If I did not have a child, this easily would have been a sit-down binge-read one sitting. We do kind of get a mixed-media perspective a little bit because we get excerpts from books, excerpts from the author's website. So, you kind of learn a little bit more about the author, and we do jump back into the past. 

We revisit some memories with Emma, and we learn more about her past, why she's unemployed, house-sitting, why she's depressed. I really like those aspects of it because I feel like the pacing and what's revealed at certain times worked really well. I even got emotional at times because of what Emma's issues and experiences are that led her to this really negative mental state.

So, I thought that Taylor Adams did a really good job not only making this suspenseful, thrilling, fun read that you could kind of see like other authors do it in a way where you don't really care about the characters. I kind of want to—it's not a slasher novel, but I kind of want to compare it to a slasher novel because at times, you know, it's just so fast-paced and you're going through all the motions. 

But in this one, I connected to the character a bit. There was more timing to her emotionally with us delving into her past. Sorry, I'm still a little sick, but it was different in that sense from a slasher whereas when I read a slasher, I usually don't care about the characters. And then, of course, she has her dog in there, so that made everything so much more stressful because I was very concerned about the very good girl Leica, and I just—I was so nervous about the dog the whole time.

So when "Hairpin Bridge" came out, I know there were some discussions going around, like what people didn't like about that one. And I don't know if what I'm about to say makes sense, but I loved "No Exit." It is one of the most suspenseful thrilling books I've ever read. I literally remember standing up and pacing my bedroom while I was reading it. 

I thought it was predictable, I guess, the entire novel, but that did not at all take away from the story and the entertainment of it. And then, I read that right when it first came out. I had time between "No Exit" and "Hairpin Bridge" where I ended up enjoying "Hairpin Bridge." It wasn't my favorite by any means, but it was an entertaining read.

I feel like the people who hated "Hairpin Bridge" didn't have much of a gap between "No Exit" and "Hairpin Bridge." So, when you read an amazing story and novel like "No Exit," the next one's kind of Tainted. I think that if you liked "No Exit" liked "Hairpin Bridge," you'll also like "The Last Word." But if you didn't like "Hairpin Bridge" but you'd like "No Exit," I still think you'll like "The Last Word." I think especially for people who are interested in Booktube and book talk and reviewing books, I think that makes like a fun little twist on this and like why she's being targeted.

And although I also figured this novel out extremely early on, it was so fun and entertaining. Going back, I do have recency bias, I think of course, but I think that "The Last Word" is my favorite of the three followed by "No Exit" than "Hairpin Bridge." Again, this comes out April 25th, highly recommend it. I'm assuming it's going to be a very fun audiobook as well. I haven't heard it, of course, but it just seems like it's gonna be like a really fun fast-paced read for everyone.





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