Last one at the party- Bethany Clift

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Anyone read this? I really enjoyed it.

Basically the main character is one of the few survivors of a deal pandemic and it follows how she copes in the immediate aftermath and later.

Its hard to talk about it much without giving the story away but...

I found parts of it really sad, made me think quite a lot about covid times.

But the ending weirdly really stuck with me. It's hard sometimes to end these sorts of novels well but I found this a very satisfying ending. It rounded things off in a believable way and gave me the chills thinking about it.

I'd love to hear what others thought.

Read for a book club a few months ago
Really enjoyed it although i did get a slight dread thinking what if this really happened!

I liked how she went back and forth to give more of an insight into her life and who she was before this all happened

I loved it! Still think about it quite often. It was very cleverly written (for example, you never find out her name) and I thought the ending was good too.

I started this but just couldn't finish it. Too gory and gruesome for me, and too close to reality...

Loved this book - I read it last year I think (or the year before?) and persuaded a couple of others to read it too. Lucky ❤️

This is one of the best books I read last year. The character just felt so real and relatable despite the post apocalyptic setting. There were a couple of parts that made me ugly cry, not because of what was happening but because how sad and unloved she had felt before.

I really enjoyed it but the postscript didn’t make sense to me.

Also, I found the character confusing. She was a major people pleaser but also really really selfish.

I read this recently and I really enjoyed it but felt like the ending was very lacking. Like the author didnt know how to finish it so just stopped writing. Still one of the better things I've read recently though

I’ve just finished it and loved it, haven’t read anything this engaging for ages.

I need to talk about the ending and what people think happened!

I loved it. I also really enjoyed her second book- it’s about AI.

I have just finished this and came here to see if there was a thread about it. I really enjoyed it but was so disappointed by the ending. I felt like it finished in a really unsatisfactory way.

I absolutely loved this book and put a full review on Amazon book reviews if anyone wants to read it there. Strongly recommended.

I loved this book (see my Amazon review) and I think this deliberately ambiguous ending was trying to say that the narrator and her daughter (and hopefully Lucky the dog) were still surviving independently after a few years have passed. They still didn't' need to rely on others (even if the conclusion seems to suggest that these others are tiny numbers) in order to survive the apocalypse, which was surely one of the main themes of the whole book. Or then again I may have overthought everything and look forward to other interpretations!

I really enjoyed this but the parts about the animals/pets made me so sad!