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A review by abinthebooks
Last Light by Claire Kent
4.0
*4.5
I’m really pleasantly surprised by how much I loved this book. I really wasn’t feeling it in the first 10% and I feared I’d have to DNF pretty early on. But I really ended up loving Last Light. This book definitely gave me the vibes of The Last of Us (more so the show than the game imo) and some hints of The Walking Dead but without any of the zombies. The MMC reminded me a less gruff version of Joel from TLOU, and I have a feeling Travis was definitely based off of him.
I enjoyed these two characters a lot, and just seeing their day-to-day life. The monotonous, slice-of-life actions of living through the apocalypse was probably my favorite part of this story. I ended up loving the romance between the MC’s, who were so well fit for each other. The MMC turned out to be so sweet to the heroine, and I ended up loving all their interactions. The steam between these two was also super well written. And surprisingly, I did enjoy the writing style in this book. I was kind of scared I wouldn’t since a lot of the reviews were complaining about the “bad writing”, and I really don’t think Claire Kent’s writing was bad at all. It was very simple and one sentencey, but it worked quite well for the one person POV the author went with.
I think my main and only big complaint with this book which is causing me to knock off half a star, is the miscommunication trope. This does have a little third act miscommunication/break up that just could have been avoided had either the FMC or MMC opened their mouths and just communicated! It was deeply annoying and made me skim (which I hadn’t done at all in the earlier parts of the book). But overall, this was a very beautiful and romantic book. I feel like if you enjoy really deep, emotional romances or post apocalyptic stories, this one will definitely be for you. I’m really excited to try more in this series from Claire Kent!
I’m really pleasantly surprised by how much I loved this book. I really wasn’t feeling it in the first 10% and I feared I’d have to DNF pretty early on. But I really ended up loving Last Light. This book definitely gave me the vibes of The Last of Us (more so the show than the game imo) and some hints of The Walking Dead but without any of the zombies. The MMC reminded me a less gruff version of Joel from TLOU, and I have a feeling Travis was definitely based off of him.
I enjoyed these two characters a lot, and just seeing their day-to-day life. The monotonous, slice-of-life actions of living through the apocalypse was probably my favorite part of this story. I ended up loving the romance between the MC’s, who were so well fit for each other. The MMC turned out to be so sweet to the heroine, and I ended up loving all their interactions. The steam between these two was also super well written. And surprisingly, I did enjoy the writing style in this book. I was kind of scared I wouldn’t since a lot of the reviews were complaining about the “bad writing”, and I really don’t think Claire Kent’s writing was bad at all. It was very simple and one sentencey, but it worked quite well for the one person POV the author went with.
I think my main and only big complaint with this book which is causing me to knock off half a star, is the miscommunication trope. This does have a little third act miscommunication/break up that just could have been avoided had either the FMC or MMC opened their mouths and just communicated! It was deeply annoying and made me skim (which I hadn’t done at all in the earlier parts of the book). But overall, this was a very beautiful and romantic book. I feel like if you enjoy really deep, emotional romances or post apocalyptic stories, this one will definitely be for you. I’m really excited to try more in this series from Claire Kent!