A review by ktrain3900
Last Day by Domenica Ruta

2.0

More interesting in concept than execution. I suppose dwelling on the minutia of the lives of seemingly random folks, most of whom you'd not want to spend a moment with, over the course of a couple days, only to burst it open at the end, was a statement in and of itself about how we spend our life and time. For me it came off as ploddingly detailed and ultimately feeling like a bit of letdown, even if the last chapter was by far the most eloquently written. I get the cleverness of the plotting, of what it could mean about my reaction to the book, but it just doesn't balance with the simpleness and/or sad-sackishness of so many characters.