THE LAST GIRL by Joe Hart has one of my favorite themes, dystopian life in the near future. This book starts next year, with a precipitous drop in female babies born. It is not long before rebels rise up to face the government and challenge the manner in which they are handling the dwindling birth rates.
We meet Zoey several years after the uprising. She is a 20-year old woman who is kept in a secure facility with a few other women for the safety and protection of society. Theoretically, they are the last of their kind and the hope is that they will survive the virus that killed the other women when they turned 21 years old. If they are able to survive this special birthday, they will be led to a safe zone. The setting for this protective area and initial safe zone is anything but. The girls are treated terribly and are in turn hideous to one another. I thought that this was a sad way to view such a dire situation and found it a negative springboard for the rest of the book.
I do not think that the book was really able to find its way from this initial dark place. Dystopian stories are dark by nature, but this book did not make sense.
Many thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. (Stars 2.5)
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