A review by manikahemmerixh
The Last One by Will Dean

3.25

Well, there's no denying that this book is interesting... It picks up quickly and sometimes had me incredibly on edge while other times I was just like be so for real, how is this happening? I was more invested in getting answers than I was in the characters, in fact I found most of them (and especially Caz since we get the story from her POV) quite annoying.

I think what annoyed me the most

is how wishy-washy she was. One second, it's I'm miserable here and I just want to go home to my family and then literally in the next sentence she's convinced herself to stay with the most arbitrary reasoning imaginable (you can't leave Frannie alone? Ok, then try harder to convince her to get the heck off that boat)

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I think that this book is trying to make some points about human nature and the unpredictability of what we'll talk ourselves into going through for the right compensation, but wasn't quite well rounded enough to successfully land that kind of sucker-punch. The ending I'm not even sure how to feel about.

It has that thriller shock element, but also does that make any logical sense? Absolutely not. I suspended disbelief to follow this story along, the dark web? Creepy, but I can buy it. No governing body of law at sea? Smart enough loophole. But now you're telling me that an entire plane of people have gone missing? Ok...

 

This would be a fun one for a book club though, there's plenty to talk about, and overall it piqued my interest enough that if he released a sequel I'd still pick it up.