By Galaxy Craze
Hardcover, 295 pages
Published May 1st 2012 by Poppy
ISBN 0316185485 (ISBN13: 9780316185486)


Blurb

A series of natural disasters has decimated the earth. Cut off from the rest of the world, England is a dark place. The sun rarely shines, food is scarce, and groups of criminals roam the woods, searching for prey. The people are growing restless. When a ruthless revolutionary sets out to overthrow the crown, he makes the royal family his first target. Blood is shed in Buckingham Palace, and only sixteen-year old Princess Eliza manages to escape. Determined to kill the man who destroyed her family, Eliza joins the enemy forces in disguise. She has nothing left to live for but revenge, until she meets someone who helps her remember how to hope-and love-once more.Now she must risk everything to ensure that she does not become… The Last Princess.

The Good

  1. The fast pace. The pace was good, but very fast. Sometimes it felt like I was being rushed through things, especially at the beginning of the book. As a result, I didn’t feel like there was a lot of character development and felt no real connection to the narrator.


The Bad

  1. The writing. The concept of this book was good, but the writing was nothing special and felt overly simplistic.

  2. The villains. The villains were entirely too evil and had no redeeming qualities. Maybe I am naive, but I am of the mindset that everyone has something good about them. This made the villains feel very fake and two-dimensional.

  3. The rebellion supporters. All the supporters of the rebellion against the crown are evil to the core. Every so often, the narrator encounters someone who is aiding in the rebellion that is a halfway decent person, but they’ve always been forced into helping somehow. I felt this was totally unrealistic given the state some people were living in—forced to rummage through trash just to find clothes and food. There had to be part of the rebellion that were good, honest people just trying to rise up and take a better life for themselves. Once again, might just be me being naive.


Overall Rating