Well...This was NOT what I was expecting. I was pleasantly surprised. It did take me a little while to get into the story fully.
What I loved: Honestly, I loved the flawed characters.
What I liked: This was a fresh look at dystopian lit mixed with mystery. I also liked the way that the MC's story line wrapped up. It felt like the right ending.
What I hated: Part of the story line seemed disjointed and out of sorts with the rest, but it wasn't enough to make me hate the story. Just a "huh" sort of a feeling.

This books makes you rethink "end of the world" literature.
Song that came running thru my head while reading this: Closing Time by Green Day

Jon is in Switzerland for an academic conference. The L’Hotel Sixieme, is miles from the nearest town and tainted by a strange history of suicides and murders. Sitting in the lobby, guests start receiving a string of notifications: Washington DC has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. After that everything goes silent. Are they the last survivors?

It’s been two months since the nuclear bombs went off and there are twenty survivors at the hotel. Jon has begun writing about the event and their day to day lives in case anyone is still around to read their history. He also is trying to interview other guests to record their stories, but as he is only one of two America’s it is sometimes hard to communicate with the group.

After they notice lower than normal water pressure a group of men go in search of what could be clogging the tanks. Inside one of the tanks is the body of a little girl. How long has she been there? Is one of them a murderer? Are people hiding there that they aren’t aware of? As their supplies start to dwindle and stress begins to take its toll on the survivors it becomes every man for himself as Jon works to piece together who the little girl is and who could have murdered her but someone doesn’t want him to find out the truth.

All the while, they are still trying to survive the end of the world. They are running out of food and medicine. Other survivors have been spotted in the forest but haven’t come up to the hotel. Should they stay where it is safe but will eventually run out of food? Or do they go in search of what is out there? What would you do to survive?

The Last is a dystopian psychological thriller that catches your attention from the start and doesn’t let go until the thrilling end.

Thank you to NetGalley for a chance to review this Arc.

I liked this book. I didn't love it like I had wanted to though. I suppose I was looking for more of a murder mystery than this ended up being so that really affected how I ended up feeling towards it when it was done. But it did keep my attention all the way through - I read it in one sitting. 3.5/5