A Unique Perspective on the Apocalypse

3.75 out of 5 stars

I started and stopped this book a few times.  The first time that I listened to it I had just finished up a pretty intense book and this one was just too literary for me.  Once I got into a better mindset the book has a super interesting vibe to it. I’ll do my best to explain why I say that.

So, in the synopsis it mentions a review that says it’s a combination of The Road and 28 Days Later. I definitely get the 28 Days Later vibe. That was one of the reasons I had to stop.  I kept picturing those scenes instead of the ones that Davis-Goff was trying to write. I think part of it was the accent.  I know that Ireland and England have different accents – but it’s still similar enough that it really threw me.  Thankfully 28 Days Later is one of my favorite movies – so this book reminding me of that wasn’t an issue.

I’m unsure if Davis-Goff was trying to purposefully throw the reader off without explaining which time we were in but she jumped around a lot – every new chapter was either in the past when the main character was young – or in the present when things have taken a turn.  But if you weren’t paying attention it was easy to get confused.

The overall vibe of the book was interesting though.  It was, in my opinion, a take on the apocalypse that I don’t normally read about. Especially once we figure out who the “Banshee’s” are.  I thought the book as a whole (almost all female characters, all of them warned about men) had that “different” vibe that I like in some unique Post-Apocalyptic books.

I also would have liked to have known more about what happened to the skrake’s to make them into what they were. It just wasn’t talked about and I couldn’t tell what would have caused it. Though I prefer not talking about it to improperly describing it.

Overall, Last Ones Left Alive is a unique female-only perspective on the apocalypse.  It was a book that I had a little trouble getting into, but once I was into it – I enjoyed it.

Book Description:

Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Narrator: Anne-Marie Gaillard
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Published by Macmillan Audio on August 27th 2019
Genres: Post-Apocalyptic

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