Last One To Die

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The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have... The Germans kept watch on the American soldier who suddenly rose to his feet and charged toward the machine-gun nest with his fixed bayonet. Gunther’s comrades yelled at him to stop as did the bewildered Germans in broken English. Didn’t he know the war was minutes from its end? If he heard the pleas, Gunther ignored them. But the ending was still good. We find out why x is doing all this. Why they have done it for so long. And yes, I don’t approve, but I cannot help to feel a bit of the heartstrings being tugged. I also loved that we get a bit after all the scary bits. See how Niamh is doing and what is next for her. I also loved that surprise bit about Geoff and who his partner was. Oh my! Couple goals indeed. XD Last one to die" exceeded my expectations, transforming from a classic slasher mystery into an emotionally loaded and eerie novel. Anticipating Murphy's signature bloody and big plot twists, I was surprised to find this one bringing us readers a broader range of emotions to feel when the killer was revealed.

Alrighty, this is the first book review I've written on Goodreads, because I think it'll be fun to rant about. Though I think, after re-reading this review again, it turned into more of an analysis. Oops. I am happy that the author told us how Niamh was pronounced. I am sorry, but I just don’t know any Irish people. And I live in Dutch-speaking country. XD I was already prepared to google it and see what was up, but I am happy I didn’t have to do that. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments

Niamh has just moved to London to attend drama school. She is very excited and can not wait to start school. Well this question is just mean-there are so many! I’m going to be a massive cliché and go for Pet Semetary by Stephen King. I read it as a way-too-young teen and it terrified me – I had to hide it before I went to bed. I’ve re-read it as an adult with a totally different understanding and it’s as horrific as I remembered – the grief and loss hits you in a different way. When King gets it right, he really gets it right. The story was written well with some fantasy elements (I didn’t like that side but it was a good idea) I would recommend this to anybody who enjoys crime and thriller books and people who like horror and books with a creepy, supernatural twist. I would rate it 5 stars because it had a great plot and I really enjoyed reading it. Additionally, her character is further dragged through the mud when she starts interacting with Tommy. Her constant gushing and over-exaggeration of how handsome he is, along with several painful head-turns at a party described by the author immediately makes him seem too good to be true. She starts off as an awkward, second-guessing mess around him, criticising herself for saying "hey", and mentally crying over every tiny social interaction. Then she performs a stellar "main-character-accidental-clumsy-trip-into-the-arms-of-the-male-lead". Towards the height of their relationship, she knows absolutely nothing about him apart from the fact that he is "just so flaming pretty" (pg. 186) and that he's... a poetic flower guy I guess? I honestly felt like I was reading some sort of Wattpad romance fiction from the amount of times she obsesses over his dimples, or his "toned, tanned stomach." (pg. 168), and it was honestly nauseating how she just accepts all of his romantic advances without much question. The fact that their attraction for one another - the very basis of their relationship - was formed purely based on looks rather than personality was seriously uncomfortable, which consequently undermined the believability of Tommy's innocence.

Skulason B, Hauksdottir A, Ahcic K, Helgason AR. Death talk: gender differences in talking about one’s own impending death. BMC Palliative Care. 2014;13(1). doi:10.1186/1472-684x-13-8 Hartogh GD. Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care. Med Health Care Philos. 2017;20(3):413-424. doi:10.1007/s11019-017-9764-3 All in all, with the exception of the magic appearance of the little sister in the end, I really enjoyed this book. It was creepy and spooky and unputdownable. I would recommend it and I look forward to the author’s next book, because this is my second book by her that I rate this high. She has a long-standing love affair with all things scary, reading Point Horrors at primary school before graduating to Stephen King in her misguided teens. Classic 90s and 00s horror movies are definitely her pub quiz strong point and her first love may well have been Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Studying for a degree in Art History and Archaeology meant that she developed a thirst for anything old, beautiful and very often dead. She tries to combine this with contemporary settings in her writing to make unique and chilling modern stories.

Synopsis

Then the ending - my biggest issue. In my opinion, the ending is simply one of the most crucial parts to a good murder mystery because it's mean to link all the clues and puzzle pieces previously foreshadowed, and tie it up in a satisfying knot. According to author Joseph Persico, Gunther was one of at least 2,738 troops and 320 Americans to die on the Western Front in the war’s final day, most of them in the six hours between the armistice signing and enactment. Persico wrote in Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour that the death toll surpassed the daily average on the Western Front. “It seems so foolish,” Corporal Harold Pierce wrote of his experience on the war’s final day, “to keep up the killing till the last minute.” I personally wouldn’t have compared it to One of Us is Lying or This Lie Will Kill You but I guess that’s because they’re ya murder mysteries (but not very enjoyable ones in my opinion). I’d say if you like Dawn Kurtigah, Kat Ellis, Katherine Foxfield & Juno Dawson then you’ll love this book.

I devoured both Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis and Good Girls Die First by Kathryn Foxfield. They both had that feeling reminiscent of a really good teen horror movie and I couldn’t put them down. I’m also excited for The Cousins by Karen McManus, as I have loved her previous books. Stamping a supernatural creepy modern twist on the Point Horrors of old and giving a fresh modern voice to the genre, Last One To Die is a proper suspenseful scare fest that had me hiding under the covers on more than one occasion!This is the start of a story that will keep you guessing. I really loved the writing style. It flowed easily for me. Characters were believable and I grew to care about what happened to them.