Thank you so much to Penguin Teen for providing me with an eArc! I enjoyed the memory loss and Sloan's dire need for recovery. Cherry was ok, I liked that at one point that Sloan was worried they only bonded because of trauma, I liked that it didn't just die down. While I understand her attachment to Cherry as well as her attitude towards the people in her life from the "before" there were times when their relationship seemed a bit unhealthy and fragile. Cherry seemed manipulative at certain moments to me, I feel like the author left out some very important details like Sloan's birth parents. Instead of Sloan herself finding this out, the audience and her are told which I felt took away some of the impact of certain discoveries(at least to me).

I love Jennifer Dugan’s books so I was really excited to read her first YA thriller.

This book had a lot of elements I love! Summer camp setting, slasher vibes, cults.

I felt like this book was a little all over the place for me. The whole plot and the characters were just too disjointed. I didn’t love the ending 😅

This is a love letter to the 80s slasher genre I never knew I needed! Scream meets Friday the 13th, I was obsessed with the twists and turns, and I can't believe how many times I kept going back and forth about who was involved. It completely caught me off guard, which never happens, and it is seriously the perfect book for summer. It's everything I love in a book, complete with a summer camp setting and all the gory scenes you could want as a horror fan! Don't skip this.

I have always been a fan of Jennifer Dugan's work. I was surprised to see a darker book coming from her but was also excited. The Last Girls standing was full of twists and turns! I was scared at times and felt fear for many of the characters. It is one of those books where you do not know who to trust. Sloan and Cherry being the only survivors of a tragic incident that Sloan doesn't remember causes quite the mystery. I also love that there is a sapphic romance at the center of this book! If I was going to change anything I would make the other characters of the book more present, but overall an interesting YA psychological thriller.

Thank you to Penguin Teen for letting me read this early in exchange for review!


I’m so sad that I didn’t enjoy this as much as I thought I would, the premise is fantastic but the ending didn’t do justice to the story. It felt really lack luster.