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inkandplasma 's review for:
The Last Girl
by Goldy Moldavsky
Full review on my blog from 25th March 2021: https://inkandplasma.com/2021/03/25/the-last-girl/
Thanks to Electric Monkey Books for the eARC of this book. It has not affected my honest review.
Content Warnings: death, murder, pranking/hazing, breaking and entering, intentionally scaring people, anxiety, PTSD
I was expecting to love this book. I wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I did. I buddy read this with some friends and I honestly think if I wasn’t buddying then I would have read the entire book in a single sitting. Maybe not at night though, when I read some of my buddy chapters late one evening I had to sit and watch television for a half hour so I could sleep afterwards. This book might not have been that scary, but it really pushed all of my personal fear buttons.
This book hit a really good balance of fun and chilling throughout. The atmosphere worked really well. I liked the fact that all the way through the reader knew some of what was going on, but not everything. It made for a really engaging read as I tried to work out what was the fear tests going right and what was them going horribly wrong. The start of this book in particular was fantastically strong and had me page turning fast to find out what was happening. Hitting each of my buddy read stopping points was deliciously frustrating. When it came to the actual reading experience, the ending was brilliant. I was holding my breath at points as everything unfolded. I will admit that the longer I sat with the ending, the more it felt a little weaker than the rest of the story. It’s not bad by any means, but it did feel quite abrupt and I think it needed just a little more time to develop into a satisfying conclusion.
The characters were all terribly flawed and therefore so, so much fun. They were bad people, but it was hard to care when they were so interesting. They felt very real too, well fleshed out and developed. I didn’t know who to trust at any point which made for a great reading experience. I don’t think there’s a single character in this book I didn’t have a conspiracy theory about at some point or another. I also wanna mention how much I loved the anxiety/ptsd rep in this book. Certainly the anxiety sections felt fantastically represented and were done really well. I will absolutely be looking out for more work by Goldy Moldavsky, especially in the YA thriller genre.
Thanks to Electric Monkey Books for the eARC of this book. It has not affected my honest review.
Content Warnings: death, murder, pranking/hazing, breaking and entering, intentionally scaring people, anxiety, PTSD
I was expecting to love this book. I wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I did. I buddy read this with some friends and I honestly think if I wasn’t buddying then I would have read the entire book in a single sitting. Maybe not at night though, when I read some of my buddy chapters late one evening I had to sit and watch television for a half hour so I could sleep afterwards. This book might not have been that scary, but it really pushed all of my personal fear buttons.
This book hit a really good balance of fun and chilling throughout. The atmosphere worked really well. I liked the fact that all the way through the reader knew some of what was going on, but not everything. It made for a really engaging read as I tried to work out what was the fear tests going right and what was them going horribly wrong. The start of this book in particular was fantastically strong and had me page turning fast to find out what was happening. Hitting each of my buddy read stopping points was deliciously frustrating. When it came to the actual reading experience, the ending was brilliant. I was holding my breath at points as everything unfolded. I will admit that the longer I sat with the ending, the more it felt a little weaker than the rest of the story. It’s not bad by any means, but it did feel quite abrupt and I think it needed just a little more time to develop into a satisfying conclusion.
The characters were all terribly flawed and therefore so, so much fun. They were bad people, but it was hard to care when they were so interesting. They felt very real too, well fleshed out and developed. I didn’t know who to trust at any point which made for a great reading experience. I don’t think there’s a single character in this book I didn’t have a conspiracy theory about at some point or another. I also wanna mention how much I loved the anxiety/ptsd rep in this book. Certainly the anxiety sections felt fantastically represented and were done really well. I will absolutely be looking out for more work by Goldy Moldavsky, especially in the YA thriller genre.