WOW. I’m not even quite sure where to start with this one. The Last Girls Standing was an intense psychological thriller that kept me turning pages wanting to know what happened. With an ending that I did NOT see coming. LGS was an ode to all your favorite slasher movies with a sapphic romance and a splash of dark humor.

Sloan, who’s POV the story is told from, heads to Camp Money Springs to be a counselor for the summer. It’s there that she meets Cherry and they begin what was supposed to be an incredible summer romance. Except a week into the summer…there’s a massacre. And Sloan and Cherry are the only ones who survived it.

I was expecting the story to begin before the camp massacre happened, but it actually starts after the event. Sloan can’t remember what happened that night. She remembers being in her cabin, hearing screams, and seeing a man in a fox mask. But most of her memories are locked away inside her mind. Sloan was also adopted at a young age and can’t remember anything of her birth parents, where she came from, or what her life was like before. Her quest for answers is the driving force behind the plot and I found myself DYING to know the answers just as much as Sloan! On the edge of my seat with each new lead, wondering what it means.

Sloan and Cherry became grossly enmeshed after the massacre. They trauma bonded in a very unhealthy way and the dynamics of their relationship play a huge role in the story.

While this story was not at all what I suspected, and I didn’t get all the answers and cozy solutions I was hoping for, I really enjoyed reading it. It was one heck of a wild ride!