Last Ones Left Alive - Sarah Davis-Goff

Sarah Davis-Goff

Category: (Post)apocalyptic

Tags: (Post)apocalyptic, Sci-Fi

Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later. Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters, Davis-Goff writes language evocative of melancholy longing in a landscape both beautiful and brutal, and shes created the distinctive voice of a first-person narrator who is both confident in her abilities and filled with fear and griefsuccessfully blends horror, lyrical prose, and feminist themes. Kirkus, Remember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives., Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpens life has revolved around training to fight a threat shes never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors., But that is where danger lies, too, in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake., Then disaster strikes. Alone, pushing an unconscious Maeve in a wheelbarrow, Orpen decides her last hope is abando