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A review by maddoxx
Die Letzte macht das Licht aus: Roman by Bethany Clift
5.0
I expected to be bored with this book at some point, for there to be parts where it dragged and nothing was happening.
However, it managed to find a perfect balance between the horrific tragedies the narrator encountered, flashbacks to her old life and her inner monologue. Never even once was I bored, quite the opposite.
I didn't hate the narrator. She was... unpleasant, in the beginning. She doesn't exactly act like the protagonist of an post-apocalypse survival novel. She does a lot of stupid, wasteful things and has ideas that she immediately drops again. Multiple times, she's a coward and sometimes maybe even a bad person. And then she's not. She goes back for the dog. She looks for survivors, eventually. She tries and fails and tries again.
I liked that about her. She's absolutely not a hero or the kind of "strong female character" the media loves to portray right now. She's very deeply flawed in a way I could relate to - not everyone will, and that's fine. Lots of people might find her annoying, whiny, indecisive. That's okay. I think, in part, that was the point.
Not everyone needs to like her or relate to her. But as it happens, she's the last one at the party.
However, it managed to find a perfect balance between the horrific tragedies the narrator encountered, flashbacks to her old life and her inner monologue. Never even once was I bored, quite the opposite.
I didn't hate the narrator. She was... unpleasant, in the beginning. She doesn't exactly act like the protagonist of an post-apocalypse survival novel. She does a lot of stupid, wasteful things and has ideas that she immediately drops again. Multiple times, she's a coward and sometimes maybe even a bad person. And then she's not. She goes back for the dog. She looks for survivors, eventually. She tries and fails and tries again.
I liked that about her. She's absolutely not a hero or the kind of "strong female character" the media loves to portray right now. She's very deeply flawed in a way I could relate to - not everyone will, and that's fine. Lots of people might find her annoying, whiny, indecisive. That's okay. I think, in part, that was the point.
Not everyone needs to like her or relate to her. But as it happens, she's the last one at the party.