Demetra Brodsky's debut, Dive Smack, was my favorite book of 2018 and she's back with her sophomore story that completely enraptured me. Told in parallel stories that converge in a way that will make you gasp aloud as they converge, Last Girls is a story perfect for the current world as it explores hope, connection, and the things we hold onto when times are difficult. I won't soon forget the Juniper Sisters!

Disclaimer: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you to Fantastic Flying Book Club, Netgalley and Tor Teen for this free copy. All quotes in this review are taken from the Advanced Reader Copy and may change in final publication.

There also seems to be a common theme of sisterhood in the books I’m reading lately. Or at least it may be a common theme since this is the second one in a matter of days. Definitely interesting and something that I have been thinking of for a while, so this comes at an opportune time for me.

While this story is deemed a contemporary, I feel like a part of it could almost be considered borderline dystopian with how these sisters grew up. It really is reminiscent of what seems to be going on today, and a part of me had to take some breaks and not think about the current state of affairs in the world. Maybe though, maybe if what was going on now was going on in this world, the Juniper sisters may be able to survive it better than any of us can.

I am so glad that we got to see how the Juniper sisters related to one another in such a time, and I enjoyed the relationships between each one. It was also very interesting to see how these doomsday societies are like from an inside perspective, even if it was through a fiction novel. If this was supposed to be a secret compound, I’m curious to know why the Juniper sisters still had to go to public school. Wouldn’t the doomsday compounds have their own educational systems to ensure that those that they wanted to keep safe didn’t have to leave unnecessarily? That was one of the things I thought about while reading it, and it came to mind when the “event” happened that put the sisters and the other members in the spotlight.

All in all, again it was an interesting read and I feel like there will be quite a bit of people that would enjoy reading this. Now, whether they are able to read it now with the world the way it is, I won’t be able to say. But if one is able to compartmentalize between their world and ours, then I think they would be able to enjoy the story of these sisters and how they had to work together in order to keep their heads about them.

Rating Breakdown
Characters: 2 / 5

Setting: 4 / 5

Plot: 3 / 5

Pacing: 4 / 5

Writing: 3 / 5

OVERALL SCORE: 3.2 / 5

I received a free digital copy of this novel through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Honey Juniper and her sisters have grown up in the world of doomsday prepping. They and their mother are part of a secret coalition that trains its members in survival techniques and collects supplies, hidden in a compound deep in the woods of Washington. Honey soon realizes that the compound isn’t as safe a place as she was led to believe. It’s up to her to protect herself and her sisters from the coalition, which has taken a frightening, cult-like turn.


Author Demetra Brodsky explores the mindset of a teenager raised in an environment where she is constantly forced to prepare for the worst case-scenario. The family dynamic between Honey and her two younger sisters, Birdie and Blue, is the strongest part of this novel. The bond between the three of them holds the story together and readers can emphasize with the hopes and frustrations all three sisters’ experiences as they try to navigate their lives in the compound and as teenagers. The two worlds are often at odds and provide plenty of conflict to test their family.

Full of action and suspense, Brodsky keeps her audience busy trying to understand the mysteries her characters uncover. Whenever the audience thinks they have finally figured it out, she will reveal another plot twist that will have them scrambling for clues yet again. It makes Last Girls a quick and exciting read!

This novel’s greatest weakness is trying to cram too many elements into one story. Too much is happening, and many secondary plots are mentioned, but never fully explored. Some of these sub-plots just don’t fit with the main story and leaving them would have allowed more page time to explore the ones that do.

Last Girls is told through a dual perspective. Honey is the main narrator, but throughout the novel there are periodic chapters from the point of view of Toby, a young artist whose three sisters were abducted many years before the story takes place. Toby’s chapters aren’t as strong as Honey’s. There isn’t much going on during them and readers do not get to see nearly enough of his character to be invested in his side of the story.

The only character throughout the novel who felt fleshed out and three-dimensional was Honey. The antagonists in particular are very flat. Most of them are revealed early on in the story, and there is plenty of time fully explore their motivations. It felt like a missed opportunity to create a group of truly terrifying villains.

Throughout the novel, there’s a lot of commentary on the current president of the United States. Political commentary is something that can make a novel more relevant to its time period, but it has to be handled in a way that makes sense for the book. Last Girls is a young adult thriller focused on doomsday prepping. There’s definitely room for commentary within the story, but the way it’s written is very awkward and forced. In the middle of important scenes, the narrators will suddenly interrupt their own internal monologues to criticize the president. The readers aren’t allowed to compare the story to current events themselves and draw their own conclusions. The commentary is very heavy-handed and distracting. It shouldn’t be shoved into the middle of scenes.

This book is suited to a young adult audience with an interest in wilderness survival and, of course, doomsday prepping. It does its job, keeping its audience entertained, which should be the goal of every novel.

I was gifted an eARC copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

** Spoiler Alert**

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No one knows how the world will end.

On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own.

Prepare for every situation.

But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life, and only one thing is certain:

Nowhere is safe.

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A tale of sisterhood, survival and lies. I really and truly enjoyed this book. It had twists and turns and kept you on your toes from chapter 1.

Blue, Birdie and Honey are sisters who have prepared for the end of the world their whole lives and who would have known that the end of days prep would have turned out the way it did?

It was a really unique story that had my mind racing trying to figure out what would happen next at every turn of the page.

You manage to fall in love with each sister who are each so unique, artists in their own rights. Honey, the eldest who feels the constant need to protect her sisters, who loves to paint. Birdie, middle sister who has fallen in love with a boy who goes missing and Blue, my favorite sister who is true to her name with her cobalt blue hair who loves to embroider and constantly quirks mysterious omens (which turn out to be all accurate in some way or another).

Of course there has to be a bad guy, there always is. Who plots a nationwide disaster just to prove a point. I felt like this plot line was a bit mhe, honestly it could have been executed better and felt a bit like an afterthought.

This book takes you on a journey of fierce protection, sisterly love and a mother who even though misguided was trying her best to keep her girls shielded and protected from the outside world

DNF at 11%

I always feel bad DNFing ARCs but at the same time, I'm not gonna force myself to read and then rate poorly a book I don't want to read anymore, regardless of whether its released or not. I didn't like this. It's as simple as that.

I'd say my biggest issue with this was the somewhat false but mostly incredibly vague advertising. I thought I had an idea what it was about going in to things, and it turned out I was wrong. I expected a survival horror-esque book along the lines of The Water Cure or a non-scifi/fantasy version of Wilder Girls. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I expected there to be a doomsday in this, and instead it was just a school shooting conspiracy. The lack of a trigger warning was disgusting and I absolutely hated that aspect. It gave me a lot of anxiety, as I've been in a lockdown for a suspected school shooting before, and though nothing happened and everyone was safe, I still get a lot of anxiety from that. Beyond myself, I'm sure, given how frequent they've been in recent years, that this book will make its way to someone who has suffered through an active shooter and they'll relapse because of the lack of warning. Again, it's disgusting. I really hope the published copy has a trigger warning, because if it doesn't, then I'm boycotting Tor for being garbage. I don't have an issue with including difficult topics, just give me a freaking warning, would you?

My second biggest issue was the writing, the characters, and the plot beyond the false advertising. The writing was extremely voicy and very very very first person and I simply didn't like the main character. She was really annoying and her narration made everything super difficult to follow. There wasn't a whole lot of logic to each scene and the sheer amount of exposition didn't make a lot of sense considering the first person narration.

The rest of the cast, mostly her sisters, seemed to be just a bunch of manic pixie dream girls, too ethereal to be human and too ridiculous to be human either. I didn't particularly care for the bunker thing. And the fact that these doomsday preppers even go to normal public school was frankly unbelievable. I doubt literally the entire premise.

I could sense that there was going to be some random love interest boy so I jumped ship before he could annoy me beyond his obnoxious classroom staring. The random unmentioned character with an artist family was fine but "his sisters"? What the heck?

Ultimately, this wasn't what I wanted and it isn't what I like to read, so I dropped it like a hot potato. If I were to rate this on Goodreads, which I won't, it would probably be a 1 star. I really didn't like it. Feel free to check it out for yourself and if you do, let me know if the publisher ever put a trigger warning.

Oh my goodness! I can’t rave about this book more! This book is so relevant to how I’m feeling these days during quarantine. I’m thinking I may need to build a compound of my own and invite all my favorite people to help run it. We’ll each help build a community together! We’ll do some gardening, baking/cooking, fitness training, survival training, and tend to a myriad of animals raised for producing all the goods we’ll need. Let’s go off the beaten path together!

Honey has always taken care of her younger sister’s as they’ve moved around from one state to another. When she finds her younger sister Birdie, the rebel, caught up in something dangerous she starts to wonder if the compound they’ve lived on with their mother for the past year may not be what it seems.

Honey and her sisters start to question everything after their friend gets sent away for his part in potentially exposing the community to the outside world and things start to get even more dangerous with every question answered. In the end it’ll take three outsiders to help put the final pieces together.

Demetra did an amazing job of describing life living on the compound. After reading this one I think I’ll need to improve my survival skills and make sure I’ve got my EDC (Every Day Carry) bag ready to go at all times.

Disclaimer: I received this arc from the publisher. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Book: Last Girls

Author: Demetra Brodsky

Book Series: Standalone

Diversity: 1 African American side character

Rating: 4/5

Publication Date: May 5, 2020

Publisher: TorTeen

Pages: 357

Recommended Age: 16+ (language, violence, bombs, school lockdown TW, death, poison, drugging people, kidnapping TW, prepping)

Synopsis: No one knows how the world will end.

On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own.

Prepare for every situation.

But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life, and only one thing is certain:

Nowhere is safe.

Review: I really liked the book overall. The characters were well developed and intriguing. The writing was really well done and the plot was intriguing.

However, I had a lot of confusion with this book. There are two storylines in this book and I think the author could have gotten away with just doing one or the other. It just seemed too big and there were a lot of variables involved that didn't and shouldn't have made sense in the book. It's hard to explain without spoiling the book, but I think a simple plot goes a lot way.

Verdict: it was a good book overall just a bit confusing.

This book was a really fun YA with an interesting take on the pre-apocalyptic genre. It centres on three sisters who are in high school but also hiding their lives living on a doomsday prepper compound where they trained, bred and grew their own food and prepared for the end of the world.

The relationships between the three sisters were great and they whilst the main perspective was one sister the other two were well developed and all had distinct characteristics and personalities. Learning about doomsday prepping was super interesting and although I know nothing about prepping, it seemed like the author did a lot of research as it felt really realistic to what I'd imagine something like a prepping coalition would seem like.

There was a lot going on in this book, and whilst I did like the dual perspectives it felt like there wasn't enough time dedicated to the second perspective to make my care more about the character and their impact on the plot. The first two-thirds of the book I really liked the pace, but the last third felt like too much was happening at once compared to the pace of the rest of the book. I find with a lot of YA, this book was a little trope-y, however, the creativity of the plot made it unique so the tropes weren't as big of a deal.

It was fun trying to figure out the mystery and the twist and turns in the book kept me on my toes. I'd recommend it to people who love YA dystopian/post-apocalyptic stories who also like contemporaries centring family dynamics. This book is a really creative way of melding those two genres.

I love this book it was everything I wanted and more! Survival, Secrets and above all else Sisterhood! A page turner you should pick up. Also the cover is perfect.

Honey our narrator takes us through the story of her and her sisters Blue and Birdie as doomsday preppers living two lives when the are around outsiders of the nest. Interweaved through this story of survival is a mystery that keeps you turning pages and a romance that you root for and a smitten boy you want to see get the girl.

This book is a wild ride first of all The Borrow/ Compound they all live in has reverted back in time, very little technology, hunting, the separation of men and women and the way they live is mostly off the land or survival methods. It has a weird cult like feel made even more so when Dieter Ackerman is the man in charge.

My favourite parts of the story are the sisters, I love how close they are and how each of them are unique yet don’t let their difference or problems come between them. Also the mystery that runs through the story is so intriguing you can’t wait to learn more. The survival training and the way they live, think and act adds a fresh perspective to this story.

I really enjoyed this story and would definitely read from this author again.

Last Girls is the story of three sisters, Honey, Blue and Birdie living on a secret compound in the Washington state. They have been prepping for the end of the world all their lives. I did not know much about doomsday preppers before I started reading this book and I guess that’s why it took me some time to get into this book. But once I got into the story and slowly got to know the characters, this book turned out to be much better than my expectations. 

I loved the sisterhood in this book. This book is about the importance of having each other’s back in family, no matter what and after all that’s what a family is for right? Another element that I loved in the book was the sense of suspense and mystery that keeps you turning pages late into the night. One issue that I did have was that there was too much going on and that made it difficult to keep track at times.

Brodsky’s writing and character development was amazing and I am looking forward to reading more of her books!

This is such a befitting story for the current times. Reading this book in the middle of a pandemic added another layer of connection to this book. The Juniper family always has a stash of canned food and in this moment I could actually relate to it and understand its importance.

Overall, Last Girls is a thrilling story of sisterhood and survival. I would definitely recommend it to you if you like thrillers.

I delved into this story with very high hopes and it did not disappoint. The timing of this release is perfect considering we are currently in the middle of a pandemic that will most likely end up crashing our economy, making this story extremely relevant and visceral. It makes a reader ponder their likeliness to impede group survival in an emergency situation.

I greatly enjoyed the bond and connection between the sisters, probably more so than the thrilling aspect of the book. Below the immediate surface of TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it), is a story about sisterhood and the lengths you would go to in protecting your family.

Brodsky was also able to develop three distinct personalities for the sisters and I enjoyed getting to know each one, though the story is mostly told from Honey's perspective. I must say, it would be quite entertaining (and yet slightly annoying) to be friends with Blue.

The story concludes in a very emotional manner that makes me wish there was a bit more background as to why the events leading to this transpired. Some aspects of the story would have benefited from a more in-depth look into events and the political views were very pointed and unnecessarily repeated frequently at the beginning of the book, which made it a little off-putting. Once the views were established, however, the story was fantastic and I would highly recommend it. Last Girls is a very relative story in our current state of the world.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review

Last Girls follows three sisters Honey, Birdie and Blue as they live on a doomsday prepper compound preparing for the end of the world as we know it.
However, not everything is as it seems and their situation turns deadly when chaos strikes from within the compound
This book had a truly unique plotline and I loved the way it was executed from the chapter titles to the dual perspectives. However, I will say If you are expecting an epic dystopianequse story this is not it. The narrative is more akin to a slow-paced thriller and the action doesn't come until much further in the story.
Another thing I adore was the relationship between all three sisters. Each one had their unique personality and quirks. Which made telling them apart easily and was also very engaging throughout the story.

Overall I would have preferred something a little more fast-paced but in the end, it was so satisfying to see all the pieces fall into place. Highly recommend if you want a good YA thriller!

Oh my goodness! This was one heck of a story. I can’t say I’ve read a lot of stories about Survivalists or Dooms Day Preppers but oh boy did this story hit for me. I loved the relationship that the three sisters had with one another and I loved getting to know each one of them. This story is about three girls trying to survive after an incident sheds light onto their community and other ensuing issues that arise. The sisterhood in this was great and I genuinely enjoyed the story! It kept me entertained till the very end and I liked the way it wrapped up.
*thank you netgalley for sending me an early arc *

4.5/5

A huge thanks to The Fantastic Flying Book Club for having me on the blog tour for this novel and providing me with an eARC! All the following opinions are my own!

Last Girls is a young adult mystery/thriller novel that was ONE HELL OF A SURPRISE, if I've ever had one! The story is told from the perspective of Honey Juniper, eldest of three, survivalist and kind of a badass. She makes beautiful paintings and writes letters to her childhood imaginary friend, Bucky. The other main cast of characters in this book are Birdie Juniper, annoyance and fiesty angst personified ; Blue Juniper, who is weirder than the rest which is saying something, and the closest thing to a real life Luna Lovegood I've ever seen. We also have Remy Lamar who just doesn't give up trying to get Honey to go out with him. And Toby Ellis…who's connected to all of this but he doesn't even know that he is.

When the story takes off, it reads like a book about a bunch of doomsday preppers with their bunkers and farms and shooting ranges (shudder), but the plot takes off almost immediately when a secret mission issued by the leader of the compound goes awry and people get in trouble etc. I don't want to give much away because this book is a WILD RIDE, and going into it knowing as little as possible was honestly one of the best things I've ever done!

Everything about this book was super fun and engaging. I absolutely adored the main characters - Blue, especially, who seems to have some kind of psychic ability obtained due to government experiments etc that read very much like Eleven's story from Stranger Things and honestly, where is my spin off? I need it right now! I WANT TO SEE BLUE HURL SOME TRUCKS AT BAD GUYS, DAMMIT! The plot went at a steady and fast pace and it was unputdownable through a lot of the action. I did find the extent to which the plot exploded in, like, the last 20% a bit extreme, but I was so invested at that point that I totally bought that shit.

I loved what the author tried to say with this book, too. While there were a lot of mixed messages (or so they seemed to me atleast) about being sheeple and the end of the world as we know it etc, there was also this pure emotion and love for all things art underneath it. The Mother of the girls doesn't approve of them being artists because she doesn't believe that it's anything useful in a doomsday scenario, but the girls still keep at it and that's kind of what ultimately saves their lives in ways more than one. And that was such a sweet thing to see, imo.

There were also a lot of small, charming elements that I adored. All the abbreviations, Blue's crazy ass predictions, Bash and Stavros and that whole bit. The few descriptions of art and photography. The slight peppering of romance. The fun sister banter. Also, there were some pretty obvious jabs at Trump peppered through the text, and honestly, I'm not even mad because nothing that was said about that orange meme was a lie so *shrug*.

All in all, this was an extremely enjoyable read and I would totally recommend you pick this up even if survival books AREN'T for you! They aren't usually for me either, but I COULD NOT PUT THIS DOWN! :D

Last Girls is a young adult thriller that follows Honey, Birdie and Blue Juniper, three sisters who have spenf their lives preparing for the inevitable End of the World As We Know It (or EOTWASWKI). They live on an isolated compound in Washington state with a handful of other families who are also doomsday preppers.

Our primary POV is Honey, the oldest Junipe who is extremely protective of Blue and Birdie and always on high alert, prepared for any emergancy. What she isn’t prepared for is corruption within the community, putting her and her sisters at risk.

Last Girls is as much as a character study the adaptability and resilience of the human spirit as a close examination of sisterhood and the true bonds of family. Brodsky does an amazing job of developing each of the sister’s unique voices and even though most of the novel is told from Honey’s perspective I felt like I knew each of the sister’s intimately.

Last Girls is also a fascinating look a prepper culture and, as someone who loves books about cults, the Cult-like community of The Nest and The Burrow checked so many of my wheelhouse boxes. There is also a lot of mystery permeating the entire novel and while I guessed some of the twists pretty early on I still loved how it all unfolded.

Over all, I gave Last Girls 5/5 stars and would recommend it to anyone who loves survival stories or books about fringe communities.

This one isn’t my usual type of read. One of my goals this year for reading (and in general) is to challenge myself, get out of my comfort zone. So when I saw the synopsis for Last Girls I was intrigued and decided to give it a shot.

HOLY FORKING SHIRTBALLS GUYS!!!! I didn’t know what to expect from this book when I started it but it gave me one of the biggest roller coaster ride of the year. From the very first chapter, it grabbed my attention and kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end.

Last Girls is the story of the Juniper sisters that live in a prepper compound. It is told in the POV of the eldest of three sisters, Honey Juniper. You will find a couple of chapters in between in another POV. I don’t want to spoil anything so I won’t talk about them except to tell you I really enjoyed them and thought they brought so much more to the book. Back to the sisters. Honey was an amazing character. Being the eldest she is always looking out for her siblings. No matter what happens she will always put their well-being first. As we read more about their story you start to see what brought this behaviour on and just how deep their bond is. Along with her sisters Blue and Birdie, Honey is the weird kid at her school. I mean living in a compound and prepping for doomsday will probably do the trick for that. But even if she seems to fully adhere to the prepper ways you could see the duality in Honey between maintaining the safety of the compound and her wish to fit in at school. Though the Juniper sisters are sometimes isolated in their own community not having been brought up there but coming in as outsiders.

This was my first book and contact really with the prepper mentality. The way the community is explained it sounded almost more like a cult to me then anything. I guess it probably is in a way. I don’t know how close the book is to reality but oh my gosh my brain can’t wrap itself around some things.

But Last Girls wasn’t just a book about preppers and when shit will hits the fan, for me it had also a lot of heart. The unconditional love that the sisters have for each other transpires through the story. It’s the kind of book that you didn’t expect to hit you in the feels but when it does you can’t help but love it so much more. It is so hard to talk about this book without giving anything away. There were so many twists and turns. Some of the twists I saw coming and some I didn’t but it didn’t matter if some parts were predictable because it was so captivating.

If you liked books like The Serpent King and Scream All Night I think you will enjoy this one too. It was such a surprise for me but I am so happy I took the journey.

*I WAS PROVIDED A PHYSICAL ARC FOR THE PURPOSES OF A TOUR. THIS DOESN'T AFFECT MY OPINION*

This book was a WHIRLWIND of emotions. It felt like, every time I got to take a breath, something new popped up to steal my surprise. And I LOVED that.

To begin with, this book had some really great qualities. I loved the aspect of sisterhood and how it took priority over every relationship that came along. The plot was really interesting, and it really was well crafted. Not to mention, the characters were very well developed!! I especially liked the parts with action in them, as they were written really well.

However, with good qualities also comes some bad ones.

For one, the dialogue was pretty weird in some parts. Some of the characters went off and monologued, and sometimes, they even said things that normal teens wouldn't say. I found those bits to be pretty impractical and hard to follow along with.

Another thing that really got to me was Honey constantly trying to control Birdie. I could get it if she was trying to be the big, older sister looking out for her younger sister, but that wasn't it at all. In one part, she was full-on judging Birdie for being sexually active, and I found that to be pretty weird, considering that's actually fairly normal amongst teens today.

Lastly, I found the pacing to be kind of rough throughout multiple parts of the book. Especially in Toby's parts.

All in all, though, I really did like this book. It was attention-grabbing, had a unique idea with multiple twists, and gave me an ending I was expecting-but-also-wasn't if that makes sense. For that, I rate this book 3.75 stars.

I was provided with an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, so thank you to them and to the publisher!

Real rating: 3.5

The main storyline of Last Girls follows three prepper girls as they live in their community and attend school, ready at any moment for the world to go sideways. This turned out to be a very different novel to what I expected, which isn't a bad thing, but there's less actual survival plot in this then I had anticipated. It does show up especially towards the end, but the book is mostly about the connection between the sisters, the will to survive and what they would do to protect each other, even from members of their own community, than it is about an actual world ending event.

Reading this book made me feel like I needed to have a stockpile, and a bug out bag and a LifeStraw (google them, they're really cool) and I enjoyed getting a look into the mindset of characters in this type of situation, but I never really felt a real connection to most of them and I wasn't a fan of the romance sub plot either as there wasn't much chemistry. The last third of the book is really exciting and fast paced, which I loved, but the rest can be a little slow. There is a twist which I'm not going to spoil here, but it did give the plot an extra flavour of intrigue.

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in prepper lifestyle on the day to day basis, and to anyone who loves relationships between siblings because on those two aspects it's really good.

I really enjoyed this unique and insightful book! I loved the characters and their development. I felt the author capture the push and pull of sisterhood really well and the look into the life of a prepper was fascinating. I thought that setting and look into that subset of society added a good amount of interest to the book. I knocked off a star because though the book has a giant twist you can see it coming from the beginning and I spent a large part of the book waiting for it rather than focusing on what was going on. That could just be me though.

"I'm starting to suspect everything I do, anyone I talk to, is being watched and reported on by the same people I'm supposed to trust most."

"Last Girls" by Demetra Brodsky is a highly recommended read everyone needs to be on the lookout for. Fast-paced and gripping from beginning to end, this is a story that will not be put down until the last page has been turned.

From start to finish, this book had me locked in its grip. Brodsky has written a compelling narrative, full of twists and turns that blocks out the ability to know who can be trusted and who is the enemy. A delightful thriller that promises to send chills down readers spines as they dive into the mysterious world Honey and her sisters are a part of. There's no doubt the trio will be loved and cherished, due to their courageous and charming personalities and the strength each of them carries in their hearts that make them powerful, female leads in a novel about survival, trust, and love.

Brodsky's writing is marvelous and beautiful with such visceral details that the story comes to life off the page. Their style and tone gripped me immediately, which is why I highly recommend readers to watch for this novel and give it a read. The playful banter, swooning romances, lies and secrets, and the journey of three tough and heart-warming sisters will definitely make this a story to remember.

"Last Girls" by Demetra Brodsky follows a three-sister trio—Honey, Birdie, and Blue—who are just as eccentric as their names and definitely the kinds of girls you don't want to cross. They live on a compound with their mother, following strict rules and training to ensure their survival just in case "The World As We Know It" comes to an end. When people at school begin to take an interest in the three "weird" sisters' lives, everything they know about their world changes, and the sisters find themselves in a dangerous situation that all their rules and training on the compound could never have prepared them for.

One of my favourite reads so far this year and one I hope finds its way onto your shelves.