I N C L U D E S A F F I L I A T E L I N K S
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Title: The LastAuthor: Hanna Jameson
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 392
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
A group of people are stranded in a hotel in Switzerland after nuclear war has erupted, and a historian who was there for a conference becomes obsessed with trying to find out what has happened to a young girl they've found in the hotel water tank.
Review:
This was an entertaining and interesting book, although it wasn't without its faults.
I found this story to be incredibly readable and the whole setting of this book is incredibly enthralling. I really liked getting to know the group of people in the hotel and seeing them figure out the group dynamics and grappling with what has happened to the world. It was really fascinating and terrifying to see what happened to the people we meet in this book as supplies dwindle and everyone starts wondering where the road is going to lead next.
But next to that, there are some things in this book that just fell a little flat. The excitement of the mystery of the girl in the water tank surprisingly tapers off fairly quickly and I sort of lost interest in it halfway through the book; I almost feel like it could've been taken out of the story altogether. I also wish we'd gotten to dig deeper into the issues that arises from having nuclear war kill so many people, and what prompted the war to break out in the first place. I also felt the ending to be underwhelming and rushed.
So although I thoroughly enjoyed this, it feels like the story just sort of scratched the surface. I'd recommend it if you like apocalyptic stories though, I think it's the worth the read if you like that sort of thing.
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