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An Amazon Best Book of the Month!

"Deliciously unputdownable." —The Washington Post

"A stunning, disturbing thriller that will have your mind and heart racing." —Samantha Downing

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.

While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay's built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel's death—delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader—she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever.

Recruiting the help of the podcast host, Shay goes back to the place she vowed never to return to in search of answers. As she follows the threads of her friend's life, she's pulled into a dark, seductive world, where wealth and privilege shield brutal philosophies that feel all too familiar. When Shay's obsession with uncovering the truth becomes so consuming she can no longer separate her desire for justice from darker desires newly reawakened, she must confront the depths of her own complicity and conditioning. But in a world built for men to rule it—both inside the cult and outside of it—is justice even possible, and if so, how far will Shay go to get it?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09M7V9D3T
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks Landmark (August 16, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 16, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3416 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1728269822
Reviewer: Meg Lewis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: incredible!
Review: So much darker than I expected, but this story is told amazingly. I was invested every single moment. 10/10 recommend!!!

Reviewer: Casey Hustin
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It’s a lot… but who wants less?
Review: This book is a wild ride. It’s dark, twisty, feminist and avenging—with an undercurrent of almost romanticizing the cult itself—sharing how women find themselves drawn into such indoctrination and terror and how they internalize the shame and blame of such a culture many times dying at its hands and the rare break-away being pretty unhinged—righteously so..The philosophy of it I could do without—the part where the leading bad guy drones on an on about his manifesto and that drawing in these ‘semi-feminist’ females—I didn’t buy—but tbh—I’m not the type to bite into how the con-artist convinces people and they just do their bidding—but we live in a world where the Holocaust happened—so I know it’s a reality and she definitely showed how you don’t really know what anyone does behind closed doors; that the truly good people are probably rarer than we want to imagine.The details are interestingly drawn out and the writer found a very clever way to bring the whole plot together—I like the journalist breaking a story angle—having been one myself so that part for me was really well done… I also liked how some of the twists were done—I did see them coming but they were foreshadowed… overall a very well written terrifying book that I couldn’t stop reading.

Reviewer: RSW Kindle Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 3 Stars
Review: I didn’t love it. I could only give Ashley Winstead’s thriller, “The Last Housewife: A Novel” 3 Stars.SUMMARYShay Deroy is a housewife in Dallas who recently left her job to try to write a novel. One day, when her husband is gone on yet another business trip, she listens to a true crime podcast (by Jamie, her high school BFF). That day, Jamie calls her out online and asks for help with his newest podcast topic, investigating the suicide of her college roommate, Laurel. Jamie is questioning whether or not it really was a suicide and thinks Shay may be the key to solving the case.Immediately, Shay hops onto a plane and flys to New York to meet Jamie on her old college campus. She and Jamie haven’t seen each other in years but they quickly reignite their friendship and begin their investigation. Shay has a dark secret about her time in college. Her junior year, she, Laurel and, their other bestie Clementine, met someone who changed their lives, but not for the better. It ended with Clementine dying before their graduation and she and Laurel agreeing to move on separately, as a safety precaution, and never returning to campus again.Shay kept that promise until she returned to find out the truth about Laurel’s death. After slowly laying out her secret, Shay convinces Jamie that Clem’s death is related to Laurel’s and the same person, the one the girls met their junior year, is behind all of it! And, it turns out a lot of important people are involved as well. It looks like an uphill battle.WHAT I LOVEDThe story kept me guessing. I never knew what was going to happen next. There were some very unexpected twists. I liked he Jamie character a lot.

Reviewer: Carlene
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A 5-star relatable feminist thriller.
Review: “But always, always, a grand finale of quiet contemplation when the lights went out, wondering how the days of one’s newly useless life could dissipate so quickly, like grains of sand through an hourglass. How in a twist of irony one could become a piece of art rather than an artist.”🪡I cannot put into words how impactful Ashley Winstead’s latest release was for me. Reading this shifted my soul, rendering me speechless as thoughts tumbled through my head. I’ve not read a book that made me feel this way since Mud Vein; a book I continue to read time and time again to allow it to work it’s magic. I could cry just thinking about this book, about the countless lines I highlighted, about the things I’ve taken away from Winstead’s words.Part bold gender study, part dark psychological thriller, The Last Housewife is a propulsive, plot driven novel that everyone should read. Shay Deroy lives an opulent, dream life, but the death of a college best friend takes her back into the past and down a dark path she thought was long hidden. It’s complicated, depraved, and difficult to go back, even more so as she looks deep into herself and how she barely missed standing alongside Laurel in a cult that’s built itself on the backs of women. It’s the kind of book you will hate if you’re uncomfortable with the truths that many women identify with, but hold close to themselves in fear of the judgement we’ve all been told is the right way to believe. You will love it if you can embrace that the mess is real, that there’s no neat folding up and putting away of these ugly truths, and that women can know and take these things inside themselves and still be strong.The trigger warnings for this one are not to be ignored, but if you can handle them, I recommend reading this. The relatability is scary, painful when you look deep inside, but also healing, no one is alone in the journeys we take, especially females.The Last Housewife isn’t for everyone, but it was “it” for me, like Winstead wrote it just for me.

Reviewer: Emma
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Please
Review: Read the trigger warnings before reading this. I would not say it’s for everyone. With that being said this book was so good! 4.5 stars

Reviewer: Poodlemom
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good page turner that was kind of disturbing at times. A great read for a vacation!

Reviewer: Anna M
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book was recommended by so many people on different social media platforms. I gave it a chance and it does capture you.But I found that I couldn't keep myself in the story. Everything that happened in the story is so close to what happens in the world that it just didn't sit with me. Made me angry with society.But if you are into dark secrets, haunted memories, being set free, this is a book for you. Keep in mind it does get spicy in a very controling way that can make someone uncomfortable. But if thats for you, have fun with this read.

Reviewer: Kay Scott
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Well, having read Ashley Winstead's delightful "The Boyfriend Candidate", I was searching for another romcom by this author. Finding nothing similar I "tried" The Last Housewife, and this is a very different book.Initially, I felt very uneasy with the subject matter but told myself that this was a novel based on intense research - research that anyone who has ever studied feminism has either already read or could discover for themselves. Despite knowing the awful fact that such patriarchal organisations do exist, I further distanced myself by observing that, for me, the novel was less a thriller and more of a gothic, horror story. And so I kept reading, hardly happily but wanting to see how it all turned out. However, the ending is actually great, and that is the point at which I dropped my protective cloak, and felt this novel does have real value and bite.Shay's best friend - Jamie, the true crime podcaster, anchors the book very nicely and provides a valuable thread of humanity.Do read the author's acknowledgements, they shed more light on the author's intentions.This is a very good, worthy, worthwhile read.

Reviewer: Kimberly
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: “Maybe I’d performed for so long I wasn’t capable of recognising my real feelings.”Ever since I read In My Dreams I Hold A Knife I’ve been meaning to read this one. With Ashley Winstead releasing another book soon I thought I better hurry up and get this one read.From the start this one has you hooked and intrigued. Sometimes when a book goes between past and present it frustrates me but it was done so perfectly here.The characters were fascinating and the story itself although brutal in topic was just so well done. I’d say this one was even better than IMDIHAK and I can’t wait to read Ashley Winsteads next book.

Reviewer: Suziemqte
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I enjoyed this book although it was hard to read at times the twists turns keep me reading great read