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The Last Girl by Goldy Moldavsky

30 reviews

readbooksovermygrave's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Grief, and Drug use

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Mental illness, Drug use, Sexism, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, Murder, Death, Classism, Bullying, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Homophobia, Confinement, Grief, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Drug use

agxxo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I KNEW IT.

The only reason it’s not a full five stars is because the ending was kind of open ended. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Drug use and Homophobia

allisonsmith120's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Murder, Alcohol, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault and Vomit

fallingquinnlove's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Read this book in a day, couldn't put it down; felt extremely predictable in some respects

(Obviously, if you pick Bram's girlfriend, he is going to pick Saundra. Don't intentionally make enemies with people who scare other people for fun!)

, but with enough twists to stay interesting. Very easy to read; kind of the perfect book to get me out of a reading slump (I haven't read YA in years, but I think that's why it worked). 
My main thing, I think, is the fact that it felt like it wanted to be a movie. It's extremely visual, and in the way that it borrows intentionally and makes explicit reference to a lot of horror movies (as opposed to horror books), I think there's something genuinely lost in the development of it as a book. I imagine it along the lines of "Do Revenge" or "Bodies Bodies Bodies".
Also, be prepared for Gen-Z language that feels a little out of place, particularly outside of dialogue.

It was when Saundra's POV had a line about how Rachel had been acting a little "sus" and someone else had a line about thinking that someone else should "prob/def break up".

I'm Gen-Z and it's not inaccurate, but it doesn't feel consistent with the mood that Moldavsky seems to want to create.
Overall though, I did enjoy it, I enjoyed the twists and the motifs

Everything to do with masks, especially Bram's masks, was brilliant. And I loved the Frankenstein motif, obviously, with the projector scene and the fact the masks are Frankenstein but painted, and everything about Thayer's Shelley lore drops. I also really liked what was being said about class divides in NYC schools.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Gaslighting

Moderate: Xenophobia, Drug use, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual harassment

julsreadinglist's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Death, and Murder

tors_tomes's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Murder, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Drug use

cactuspunk's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Child death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, and Classism

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Vomit