I really enjoyed this book. It was different than anything else I've read recently. I couldn't put it down! I will keep an eye out for this author's future work!

Thanks to #NetGalley and #Thomas&Mercer for the book #TheLastGirlLeft by #AMStrong and #SonyaSargent. This book about an attack five years ago leaving three dead and one survivor, left me speechless. Tessa, the only survivor decides to go back to that house and write a book about that night to help her move on. Strange sounds and events start happening which leads Tessa to think someone is still after her. Who is behind all of this and is the killer still alive?

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁 by A.M. Strong; Sonya Sargent @sonyasargentstrong
𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: April 23, 2024

Thank you to @thrillerbookloversthepulse and @sonyasargentstrong for an ARC! I'm so excited to be a part of this book tour!

This book was SO good! Tessa is the sole survivor of an attack on her and her friends at a beach house in Maine. She decides to go back to the house for a month to try to deal with the past and finally move on but things don't go as planned.

I was hooked from the very beginning! The book was well written, the flow was perfect and the suspense was ongoing through the entire book. There were twists that I did not see coming and I never would have guessed the ending! I didn't know which characters to trust and I love that. There was not a dull moment in the entire book and I found myself reading every chance I had! You definitely don't want to miss out on this one! I highly recommend!

The Last Girl Left was an easily bingeable fast paced thriller. From the premise I was hooked and invested. Although some parts did feel like added filler and sometimes the pacing was a little off it still kept you invested.

The characters did fall flat for me and felt truly underdeveloped. I didn't feel any attachment or couldn't find myself rooting for any of them so it was hard. They lacked depth and substance. The friends that the FMC lost were mentioned but truly nothing was ever detailed about them.

Although the twists didn't give me that ultimate shock, I think it's an enjoyable read that will satisfy a lot of readers.

This book was like peeling the layers off of an onion. But in a good way! The amount or jaw dropping moments and turns this book had me taking 😳 I kept thinking I had it figured out and was so wrong! I was trusted at times with the main character as I felt she was making stupid decisions but I was intrigued. Was a slower read but worth the wait. I mean who doesn’t love a book where they return to the scene of a mass murder?!?

Thank you to @NetGalley, Brilliance Publishing, @sonyasargentstrong, @thrillerbookloversthepulse for my free copy to review! I listened to the audiobook and alternated with the book.

Wow. Seriously, I can not emphasize enough how amazing this book is! It had me HOOKED from the start and I was glued to the edge of my seat, anxiously waiting for the next thrilling moments to occur. There is nothing better than a SUSPENSEFUL and THRILLING slasher with a jaw-dropping ending!

In an attempt to face her demons, Tess, the only survivor left, goes back to the secluded vacation island where her friends were brutally raped and murdered. Soon after arriving, Tess starts waking up in the middle of the night, feeling and hearing a presence. Strange occurrences begin to happen and Tess, more paranoid and scared than ever, reaches out to her new friend and the Island's sheriff to help investigate.

I can't say much more without spoiling the whole book, so please read this for yourself! Fans of Riley Sager will GOBBLE this book up!

I started with the eARC and switched to the ALC and stayed there. The audio narration just upped the spooky factor for me in this one. And I may have peeked under my bed last night after listening!

Five summers ago, Tessa took a trip with three friends to a beach house on a small island off the coast of Maine. They trusted the wrong person there, leaving Tessa's three friends dead and her attacked and left for dead. She survived, but this crippled her emotionally to the point she barley lives her life. The killer was caught at his home shortly after and shot when he tried to get away, but she still cannot put it behind her.

Tessa decides she needs to go back to the scene of the crime, and rents that same house for a month. On her sister's credit card. Her sister wants her to cancel, but she persists. She reaches out to a publisher who wanted her story back when all this happened, and after hearing she is going back and having her write a bit of the start of the story, they give her an advance and off she goes.

She meets a few people on the island, but has a very hard time trusting. Strange things start to happen. And there's nowhere to go. Who can she trust? Is someone trying to make sure she doesn't tell her story?

This story engaged me immediately and had me questioning everything along with Tessa. You wonder if the things ARE happening or if it is her imagination.

There were definitely some twists and turns and I enjoyed how this one ended.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Brilliance Audio for an ALC, Thomas and Mercer for an ARC and Thriller Book Lovers The Pulse for allowing me to be a part of this tour.

I have seen mixed reviews on this so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but this was definitely better somehow. The narrator did a good job as well with different voices for the different characters. This was creepy, medium paced, but suspenseful. I wanted to listen every opportunity I had because I was so into the story. I did not see the ending coming! Would absolutely recommend.

The Last Girl Left
By: A.M. Strong, Sonya Sargent
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Pub date: April 23, 2024

4🌟🌟🌟🌟

Tessa Chamberlin is the sole survivor after a girls weekend five years ago. Living with her sister she is still horrified and shaken by the events.

She agrees to go back to Cassadagq Island to face her fears and write a book. She does not tell anyone who she is, but ends up renting the home where the massacre occurred.

Things start happening in the house and Tessa is terrified, to say the least. She has made a few friends on the island. Is it possible they know who she really is?

This novel is fast-past, suspenseful and full of tension as the plot thickens.

When a woman returns to the scene of the horrific mass murder that shattered her life, the nightmare begins again in a chilling novel of psychological suspense.

This was really good! Lots of good tension and plot twists to keep me turning the page.

Title- The Last Girl left
Rating-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This book caught my attention from the beginning and held it all the way to end. This is definitely a bingeable book. I was even holding my breathe at some parts😮‍💨😅 I didn’t guess the ending at all.👏🏽

Five years ago, Tessa Chamberlain was the lone survivor of a beach house massacre that left three of her friends dead—and Tessa with an inescapable, unending dread. Now she’s going back to face her fears.

Renting the same beach house where she almost died, Tessa returns to lonely Cassadaga Island off the coast of Maine long after the tourists and summer residents have departed for the winter. But as the fog rolls in and the nights grow longer, she wonders if she made a terrible mistake. There are footsteps on the porch, creaks from the second floor, and an unsettling feeling of being watched.

If only someone believed her. Because the terrors Tessa thought were long behind her are starting again. And this time, trapped and alone, she might not be lucky enough to survive them.

Besties if you’re looking for a fast paced thriller this one is for you.

Tessa was the only survivor of a horrific event that took the lives of three of her friends. But five years later, she is barely surviving. Wrapped with guilt, and a fear of re-entering the world, a push from her sister forces her to take action
She is going back to Cassadaga Island, the place where she became the final girl. Hoping to conquer her fears, this place still has other ideas. Strange noises in her rental house, the house where all the horror happened. Is the house haunted or is Tessa losing the fragile grip she has on her sanity?
I’m not going to risk falling into spoiler filled waters, but the chapters were short, and the story moved at a brisk pace. While I felt sorry for Tessa, besides her being the final girl, she could also be called, she who makes some really bad choices. She annoyed me more than once, so I just had to keep reminding myself what she had lived through. I had a few different theories about what happened to her friends and what was happening to her now. None of them were correct. Two points to the authors, zero points to me.

I wound up reading this book in one day and it was so good. It's more a slow burn which usually isn't my thing but it was done really well. The tension and suspense had me gripping my kindle tightly. If you've ever been alone in a house and felt scared by every little sound you will understand. I was actually kind of annoyed when I had to put it down to bring one of my kids to soccer practice. That's how you know it's a good one.

Thank you Thriller Book Lovers Promotions, A.M. Strong, Sonya Sargent Strong and Thomas & Mercer for an advanced copy. Make sure to check out THE LAST GIRL LEFT when it comes out April 23, 2024

The main character here has been tossed through the wringer — having had survived a mass shmooting event which she is haunted by often, and haunted by the person who did it.

The characters have a great deal of depth and I really, really loved the shorter chapters for my own sanity, I tend to get a little lost in the longer chapters some books have. I love how Tessa did, in her own way, faced her demons. Forcing herself to stay in the home which the incident occurred.

The way the author used her friends to invoke those heavier feelings was well done. Even if the friends were very, very vague. The twist though, had me shook. I did not expect the events and the way they laid out.

Overall, a very entertaining thriller that kept my attention.


Thank you to Netgalley, A M Strong, Sonya Sargent, and Thomas and Mercer for the eARC!

THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND PUBLISHER FOR THIS ADVANCE REVIEW COPY IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW.

Theresa and her friends went to a beach house, five years ago and only Theresa came back alive. It’s been five years but Theresa is unable to move on from the mass murder of her friends and her near-death experience of herself. The murderer is dead, but she still has PTSD and all of the therapists fail to help her. After some events, she decided to go back to the beach house to get closure and move on. She even signed a book deal with a publisher so she can’t back out. Something is wrong in the beach house but Theresa can’t say if it is her anxiety or something else.

I like the concept of the book and it has a lot of potential but for me, writers couldn’t execute it properly. All of the characters felt underdeveloped and it was hard to feel for any of them. Many events felt like filler in the story and many things didn’t make sense to me. Theresa’s character portrayal and actions were opposite to each other. I liked the ending though but everything else was so ordinary.

Five years ago, Tessa Montgomery was on vacation with three friends on a remote island when they were attacked. Tessa's three friends were murdered, and while she was left for dead, Tessa managed to survive. While the assailant was killed in a shootout afterward, Tessa is still living the nightmare, unable to leave her sister's house and taking a baseball bat everywhere with her. But after Tessa nearly attacks her sister's cat, she realizes she needs to do something drastic to get past this paralyzing fear. So she does the most drastic thing she can and rents the same vacation home where her friends were murdered and she was attacked, determined to stay for a full month. But Tessa hasn't been there long when odd things start happening, setting setting her even more on edge than she was before.

This wasn't the worst book I've read, but it was far from the best. I had trouble buying Tessa's decision to return to the scene of the crime (and alone and for a whole month), as well as the fact that she thought nobody in the town recognized her when she returned (seriously, there are about 5 residents and nothing else has happened in this town...and she has a giant scar on her face). Honestly, the main reason I didn't stop reading was because I was afraid that a particularly cliched twist was coming (thankfully, it didn't). Doesn't mean it was worth it though.

Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for the advanced readers copy of this novel.

I will admit that this book really had me a bit unsettled. The premise of the main character who is the survivor of a mass murder that returns to stay at the scene of the crime for 30 days really made me feel uneasy for her. As you can probably guess, it was unsettling for the character too.

The new terrors she faces had me reading long into the night to find out what happens.

This was definitely a great psychological thriller for those that love this genre.

Five years after the horrific mass murder of three friends, Tessa, the sole survivor, wants to move on with her life. She decides to face her fears head on by going back to where it all happened. There are things that she doesn't remember about that night, which could change everything.

This book had me questioning everything. With each page, I wanted to read more. Definitely a page-turner.

You know I love books where someone has to go back to some place they escaped from. In this one the girl goes back to a beach house where all her friends were massacred. Could not be me!
So Tessa is going around swinging baseball bats at shadows and cats and it is really upsetting her sister, so her sister is like "stop this or move out." And Tessa is like "I don't know why this cat doesn't like me"
I relate to the sister because I too am a caregiver for an adult with mental issues. I am just wondering why how Tessa/her sister has the money to go rent a beach house for a month. Is social support that amazing in other countries? Because if I am sick for more than three days I get to be homeless.
Anyway, I really felt for Tessa when she heard about the ghost tour. We do little ghost tours but only stuff that's 100 years old. It is so disrespectful to talk about the recent stuff in that way.
In the last scary book that I read the victim returned to her home where all the bad stuff happened to embrace the happy memories. Tessa is doing the opposite. She is working through the bad ones.
I think both perspectives are legit.
I just all around loved this book. I felt for Tessa. I loved the atmosphere.

Five years ago, Tessa Chamberlain was the lone survivor of a beach house massacre that left three of her friends dead―and Tessa with an inescapable, unending dread. Now she’s going back to face her fears. Renting the same beach house where she almost died.

The first half was such a page-turner

I had such high hopes and was getting all the eerie house-type vibes. I was so intrigued, but then the second half shifted gears and the execution failed me!

Some intense moments propelled the story, some good Deja vu moments that had me guessing wildly, but the wrap-up was too convenient and didn't give me that fist bump moment I was anticipating.

This is a good creepy story that kept me guessing almost until the end. What could have been a dramatic, sinister novel became just another thriller. On the plus side, The Last Girl Left is an easy read that scored high for entertainment value.

Thank You NetGalley and Publisher for the eARC.