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The Only One Left

Riley Sager
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Dutton • 2023

At seventeen, Lenora HopeHung 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 knifeTook 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 saidBut 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.
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RECENZIA: Riley Sager – Prežila len jediná

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Kniha Prežila len jediná od Rileyho Sagera (Todd Ritter) je gotický psychologický triler odohrávajúci sa v rozpadajúcej sa viktoriánskej vile v Maine, kde bola v roku 1929 obvinená Lenora z vraždy svojej rodiny a v roku 1983 sa mladá zdravotná sestra Kit zapletie do odhaľovania jej minulosti prostredníctvom starého písacieho stroja. Recenzentka chváli premyslenú atmosféru a realistické vykreslenie postáv, najmä Lenory, no upozorňuje na pomalý rozbeh spôsobený množstvom zdĺhavých opisov v prvej polovici knihy. Druhá polovica je dynamickejšia, prináša napätie, prekvapivé prepojenia a zvraty, ktoré sú však podľa nej miestami príliš prehnané a narúšajú reálosť príbehu. Knihu odporúča milovníkom temných psychologických trilerov so silnými ženskými postavami, pričom jej celkové hodnotenie zostáva len trochu nad priemerom.

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Prežila len jediná (Riley Sager)

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Prežila len jediná od Rileyho Sagera je gotický triler zasadený do sídla Hope's End, kde sa v roku 1929 odohrali viacnásobné vraždy a jedinou preživšou bola Lenora. V roku 1983 príde do sídla opatrovateľka Kit, ktorá s Lenorou komunikuje cez písací stroj a postupne odhaľuje jej temný, nejednoznačný príbeh. Kniha vyniká krátkymi kapitolami, dychberúcou atmosférou a autorovým šikovným manipulovaním s vnímaním čitateľa, ktoré vedie k šokujúcemu rozuzleniu. Slovenské vydanie od Dot. s obálkou od Adriána Macha a prekladom Ľubice Dvončovej príbeh vizuálne pozdvihuje; odporúčam ho milovníkom mrazivých psychologických trilerov.

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.