Leah Konen | THE LAST ROOM ON THE LEFT Spoilers

The Book: 

The Last Room on the Left by Leah Konen
Published January 14, 2025 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Date read: January 7, 2025

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The Last Room on the Left spoilers can be found below, but they’re hidden under a spoiler tag so you’re safe to keep scrolling if you’d just like to read my review.

The Characters: 

Kerry

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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The Plot (from Goodreads):

The caretaker at an isolated mountain hotel finds herself fighting for her life—and sanity—in this twisty, addictive thriller.

Kerry’s life is in shambles: Her husband has left her, her drinking habit has officially become a problem, and though the deadline for her big book deal—the one that was supposed to change everything—is looming, she can’t write a word. When she sees an ad for a caretaker position at a revitalized roadside motel in the Catskills, she jumps at the chance. It’s the perfect getaway to finish her book and start fresh.

But as she hunkers down in a blizzard, she spots something through the window: a pale arm peeking out from a heap of snow. Trapped in the mountains and alone with a dead, frozen body, Kerry must keep her head and make it out before the killer comes for her too. But is the deadly game of cat-and-mouse all in her mind? The body count begs to differ . . .

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The Reveal:

Kerry contacted the police, but the body she found had disappeared by the time they arrived. They didn’t believe her and left her to wait out the storm alone at the motel. Kerry started drinking again and then went in search of food, only to discover that the body had been moved to the motel’s chest freezer. Rather than call the police again, she decided to search the dead girl’s room. She found her ex-best-friend’s sketchbook there and jumped to the conclusion that the body was her friend Siobhan.

Siobhan was not dead, but not for the reason I assumed. (My hunch was that Siobhan the horror writer had staged all this to get back at Kerry for whatever their falling out was about.) There was a real dead body, but it was Siobhan’s friend Allison, who had come to visit Siobhan during her time at the motel. After a flashback to Siobhan’s POV, Siobhan showed up on Kerry’s doorstep. She had apparently been passed out in the boiler room for two days. She thought it was the day after the party.

Tyler, the boy from next door, had killed Allison because she laughed at him when he showed her his short story after they had sex. He said he “just wanted her to stop laughing” but it wasn’t explained how he killed her. His uncle Billy, the cop, helped him hide the body and clean it up.

Kerry figured out the truth and Billy almost killed her too, but the other cop Janine showed up just in time to save Kerry and Siobhan.

The squatter girl was just a harmless teen runaway.

The Ending:

Six months later, Siobhan had written and produced a documentary about what happened to Allison. Kerry was sober and back with Frank.

The epilogue shows Allison’s POV on the day after the party. She woke up the next morning covered in snow and weak from her injury. Jeremy was standing over her watching her struggle, but didn’t help her because she had threatened to expose his tryst with the teen squatter girl. He left her to die in the snow, where Kerry found her later that day.

Questions:

The book never explained what happened to Siobhan in the days she was missing?? Why was she in the boiler room and why didn’t she wake up for two days??



I hope these The Last Room on the Left spoilers were helpful.

The Review: 

Thank you to @putnambooks for this gifted copy and to @prhaudio for the ALC!

I enjoyed this winter blizzard thriller! It’s set in my area and reminded me of The Sundown Motel more than The Shining.

While it does fall into the “no one believes the drunk woman” theme that can feel a bit frustrating, the book is creepy and atmospheric enough to be worth it. I thought I had it figured out, but I was wrong!

It’s an enjoyable popcorn thriller that’s perfect for this time of year. I was left with one huge question at the end, so if you’ve read this one let me know!

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