Disappointed in this one – good dystopian hook, unevenly executed. I had so looked forward to this book and was excited to get it from the library, especially since it was recommended by Emily St. John Mandel, who wrote one of my all-time favorites, Station Eleven. Sadly, it did not live up to that comparison.

The Last follows a group of people who are stranded at a hotel in the Swiss Alps following a nuclear war. Great hook! But it just didn’t work for me: at times I was bored, other times confused. I did not find the characters likable, and so I wasn’t really rooting for anyone. People spent a LOT of time zoned out doing drugs and just generally laying around – for a doomsday scenario, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me. And the ending – didn’t love it.

I feel like this could have been so much better. Pass.