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A review by hobbitsbooksandbeyond
Last Girls by Demetra Brodsky
3.0
I was provided with an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, so thank you to them and to the publisher!
Real rating: 3.5
The main storyline of Last Girls follows three prepper girls as they live in their community and attend school, ready at any moment for the world to go sideways. This turned out to be a very different novel to what I expected, which isn't a bad thing, but there's less actual survival plot in this then I had anticipated. It does show up especially towards the end, but the book is mostly about the connection between the sisters, the will to survive and what they would do to protect each other, even from members of their own community, than it is about an actual world ending event.
Reading this book made me feel like I needed to have a stockpile, and a bug out bag and a LifeStraw (google them, they're really cool) and I enjoyed getting a look into the mindset of characters in this type of situation, but I never really felt a real connection to most of them and I wasn't a fan of the romance sub plot either as there wasn't much chemistry. The last third of the book is really exciting and fast paced, which I loved, but the rest can be a little slow. There is a twist which I'm not going to spoil here, but it did give the plot an extra flavour of intrigue.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in prepper lifestyle on the day to day basis, and to anyone who loves relationships between siblings because on those two aspects it's really good.
Real rating: 3.5
The main storyline of Last Girls follows three prepper girls as they live in their community and attend school, ready at any moment for the world to go sideways. This turned out to be a very different novel to what I expected, which isn't a bad thing, but there's less actual survival plot in this then I had anticipated. It does show up especially towards the end, but the book is mostly about the connection between the sisters, the will to survive and what they would do to protect each other, even from members of their own community, than it is about an actual world ending event.
Reading this book made me feel like I needed to have a stockpile, and a bug out bag and a LifeStraw (google them, they're really cool) and I enjoyed getting a look into the mindset of characters in this type of situation, but I never really felt a real connection to most of them and I wasn't a fan of the romance sub plot either as there wasn't much chemistry. The last third of the book is really exciting and fast paced, which I loved, but the rest can be a little slow. There is a twist which I'm not going to spoil here, but it did give the plot an extra flavour of intrigue.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in prepper lifestyle on the day to day basis, and to anyone who loves relationships between siblings because on those two aspects it's really good.