Title:
The Last Girl on Earth
Author:
Alexandra Blogier
Genre:
YA Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rating:
Five Stars!
Life
has a funny way of getting busy when you least expect it—hence the delay with
posting reviews the last few weeks. So while I've always intended to stick
with one or two reviews a month, because I feel as though I can really give a
book my full attention then, I’ve also come to realize that it may be easier to
reach that goal if I let the author do some of the legwork, or in this case, I
simply share the author’s synopsis and then offer my opinion (because who needs
to reinvent the wheel, right!). So without further ado, here’s
the new and improved book-review format…
“The
Last Girl on Earth” Book Synopsis
RAISED
AMONG THEM.
Li
has a father and a sister who love her. A best friend, Mirabae, to share things
with. She goes to school and hangs out at the beach and carefully follows the
rules. She has to. Everyone she knows—her family, her teachers, her friends—is
an alien. And she is the only human left on Earth.
A
SECRET THAT COULD END HER LIFE.
The
Abdoloreans hijacked the planet sixteen years ago, destroying all human life.
Li's human-sympathizer father took her in as a baby and has trained her to pass
as one of them. The Abdoloreans appear human. But they don't think with human
minds or feel with human hearts. And they have special abilities no human could
ever have.
FIT
IN OR DIE.
When
Li meets Ryn, she's swept up in a relationship that could have disastrous
consequences. How far will Li go to stay alive? Will she save herself—and in
turn, the human race—or will she be the final witness to humanity's
destruction?
Summer’s
Take On “The Last Girl on Earth.”
On
its surface, “The Last Girl on Earth” is a book about a girl who falls in love
with a boy. It’s a classic young-adult romance, with all the angst and
quirkiness one would expect with such a read, but just beneath the surface lays
a truly profound and thought-provoking work. This book tackles tough issues,
like the cost of love and loyalty, and the lengths people will go through to
survive despite the odds against them; it’s about judgments and misunderstandings,
and it exposes the destructive nature of humans—especially toward the
environment. It’s both powerfully and beautifully delivered—the writing
breathtaking.
Hence,
in my humble opinion, it’s definitely worth the read. So while I did have issues
with some of the “convenient coincidences” that carried the storyline along and
the fact that the Abdoloreans, who were supposedly “advanced,” but who never
actually did anything special (or different than the average human), I still
really enjoyed the book and I happily give this YA science fiction romance a five out of five
stars!
