The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster.
As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel. It appears fully, terribly human, passing every test Tamsin can devise. But the longer the double exists, the more Tamsin begins to forget pieces of her life, to lose track of time, to grow terrified of the outside world.
As her employer grows increasingly suspicious, Tamsin must try to hold herself together long enough to figure out what her double wants from her, and just where the mysterious door leads…
Title : Last To Leave The Room
Author : Caitlin Starling
Narrator : Xe Sands
Format : audio
Page Count : 11 hours 47 minutes
Genre : horror / thriller
Publisher : Macmillan Audio
Release Date : October 11, 2023
Reviewer : Hollis
Rating : ★ ★
Hollis' 2 star review
This was.. tough. While I did go into this with some trepidation as I normally don't do audios for new content (generally only for rereads and even that's rare!) I actually thought it was going to go pretty well because I (thankfully) enjoyed the narrator's voice. But then the inevitable began to happen : I kept tuning out. But worse? When I would tune back in.. I didn't feel I had missed anything.
This felt so repetitive and hardly anything, ever, seemed to be happening. There was so much science-y rambling but nothing ever really seemed to be saying a whole lot, or making sense, or really explaining what the science was, and instead it just filled space (and I still don't actually understand what she was doing or how). And when things finally did start to happen it went through the same repetitions and felt so.. small (not helped by our lack of change of scenery; sometimes the claustrophobia feeling can work with a thriller/horror and other times it's just boring). Until finally we slipped into something new. But that excitement was short lived and the trudgery resumed until we got to the end and I'm left wondering : why.
Why to the whole thing.
Sadly this isn't one I'll be recommending. Shoutout to my buddies who were along for the ride with me (in various stages as we were all a little all over the place) and who thankfully all felt the same way.
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