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Book Review of The Last One: A Novel

The Last One: A Novel
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Very good, fast-paced, good world-building and sense of place. Alternates between 1st person POV of Zoo, and 3rd person POV looking at the reality show production about 3 weeks earlier. Very effective at telling the reader what happened. Loved the labels of the characters from the show perspective but Zoo thinks of them with their own names (if we learn her real name, I missed it). I thought at first the author would keep us in suspense as to whether or not the situation was part of the game or real, but early on we learn the truth. Her chapters get more and more tense as she desperately tells herself that it's all part of the game, and we just wonder when she's going to snap. Loved the ending, which has more emotional impact than the rest of the book.