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The Last (2019)

par Hanna Jameson

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This propulsive post-apocalyptic thriller "in which Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None collides with Stephen King's The Shining" (NPR) follows a group of survivors stranded at a hotel as the world descends into nuclear war and the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as he's waiting in the lobby of the L'Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to his wife, he receives a string of horrifying push notifications. Washington, DC, has been hit with a nuclear bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. That's all he knows before news outlets and social media goes black--and before the clouds on the horizon turn orange. Two months later, there are twenty survivors holed up at the hotel, a place already tainted by its strange history of suicides and murders. Jon and the rest try to maintain some semblance of civilization. But when he goes up to the roof to investigate the hotel's worsening water quality, he is shocked to discover the body of a young girl floating in one of the tanks, and is faced with the terrifying possibility that there might be a killer among the group. As supplies dwindle and tensions rise, Jon becomes obsessed with discovering the truth behind the girl's death. In this "brilliantly executed...chilling and extraordinary" post-apocalyptic mystery, "the questions Jameson poses--who will be with you at the end of the world, and what kind of person will you be?--are as haunting as the plot itself." (Emily St. John Mandel, nationally bestselling author of Station Eleven).… (plus d'informations)
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    dmenon90: Clinical tone, post-apocalyptic setting with a last group of survivors who battle with not only the end of the world but with each other. Themes of distrust and doom.
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American historian Jon Keller is stopping at a hotel in Switzerland for a work conference when the world descends into nuclear war. Jon is one of twenty people, both guests and staff, who decide to stay at the hotel and forge a new existence there. But then the body of a young girl is found and without a clear date of death, nobody is sure whether there is a murderer in the hotel and Jon becomes obsessed with finding out.

This book has been on my shelf for a few years – it came out in 2019 and was set at the same time. It’s post apocalyptic/dystopian fiction, which used to be one of my favorite genres until Covid-19 happened, and suddenly it felt a lot less like fiction, and something I didn’t want to read about (hey, I’ve only just watched 28 Days Later, despite having more viewing time than I could ever have anticipated during furlough)!

Anyway, I recently bought Hanna Jameson’s novel, Are You Happy Now? which is a story about a pandemic – there is a theme here – and derive synopsis, it cided I should read this first. And actually it’s bloody brilliant!!

Despite the synopsis, the book is equally focussed on how the people living at the hotel try to forge a new life and to some extent make a new community, as it is on the. murder of the young girl. As a historian, Jon decides to chronicle the new life that they are all living. One of the first things that they lose is access to the internet and therefore any news reports or communications from other people. There is suspicion amongst different factions of the group – primarily it seems between the English speakers and the non-English speakers – and concerns about what they will do when food stores run low. Is it safe to go outside and look for more food? Are there other survivors? And how do they deal with transgressions by members of their group?

I found the book hard to put down and scarily believable. In such a situation, how would you know who to trust? Who if anyone should lead the group? Everyone is fighting their own battle; Jon is particularly upset about how he failed to respond to his wife’s last text message, sent after he had left for Switzerland when their marriage was in trouble.

I was riveted from beginning to end, and although I found the resolution about the death of the young girl somewhat surprising and probably the weakest aspect of the whole story, I eagerly anticipate reading Are You Happy Now? Not quite yet though; I need something a bit more upbeat first. ( )
  Ruth72 | Nov 19, 2023 |
A dystopian thriller beaten with a political stick!

Don’t let the political stuck put you off, politics is in no way forced down your throat or the main plot in this book, it just has a few digs in places. It gives no names but the flashing neon sign is one not even I could miss and I don’t follow politics at all!

Set in a hotel in Switzerland a handful of guests and staff watch the end of the world before everything goes dark. This is their story, how they survived the nuclear apocalypse one claustrophobic day at a time.

With some great characters that you will love and love to hate this is the end of the world in the 21st century where the death of the internet and social media is as traumatic as the end of humankind its self!

Told from the first person prospective, Dr. Jon Keller an American lecturer who was staying at the hotel attending a conference begins chronicling events beginning from Day One. It follows his own thoughts and actions as well as the other guests as they all try to come to terms with being the possible sole survivors of the end of the world.

What would you do? How do you survive with none of the 21st century luxuries we are all so reliant on in this day and age?

Well written and thought provoking it is a book for our time, it is a book that will linger in your thoughts way after you have turned the last page.

A great edition to the dystopian/apocalyptic genre with an added murder mystery.

https://debbiesbookreviews.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/the-last-by-hanna-jameson/ ( )
  DebTat2 | Oct 13, 2023 |
I didn't realize this was mostly post-apocalyptic when I picked it up, having heard it involved a murder at a hotel where everyone was pretty much trapped. There is a murder (well, several), but it really isn't the main focus of this. I haven't read many end-of-days stories, so this was pretty fresh for me. The characters all acted very believably, and the circumstances they dealt with were equally plausible. The resolution to the murder at the very end kind of took a weird a turn, but it was still a satisfying end. ( )
  KallieGrace | Jun 8, 2023 |
Very mediocre plot and setting, but I did quite enjoy the writing and the historian approach. ( )
  whakaora | Mar 5, 2023 |
3,8 ⭐

Writing was easy to read and engaging enough, though nothing special.

World building and setup were okay, but not really the focus here. The parallels to our society were a little scary.

The characters weren't likeable but they were well written. The narrator was a bit unreliable, but the other characters (especially Tomi) were good mirrors for him.

The plot was okay, but lacked any real pull for me.

This was mostly a story about humanity annihilating society and going out with both a bang and a whimper. ( )
  tuusannuuska | Dec 1, 2022 |
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The Last raises the moral question of whether one isolated murder still matters, given what appears to be the erasure of most of the people on the planet.
 
Even with a world in chaos, people still do what they do—form alliances, keep secrets, make love. They also go to lengths they never imagined they would. Jameson’s premise certainly resonates in our current political climate, and blame for the situation is leveled directly at Tomi because of whom she voted for in the last presidential election even as Jon ruminates that those who voted otherwise (like him) didn’t do enough to stop what happened. A thoughtful, page turning post-apocalyptic tale marred by a disjointed conclusion.
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New antagonists will forever rise and step into the arena, and piece after piece will crumble off our beautiful world, as though it were an ancient ruin through whose decaying walls the wind and rain whistle. Every day another piece will crumble off, until nothing but a heap of stones marks the place where it once stood, in better days. And we take part in the cruel game, under the illusion that we can bring it to a happy conclusion. It saddens me to think what the end will be. —Hans Keilson, The Death of the Adversary
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“A lot of people confuse movement with progress,” Dylan said. “I knew it was a bad idea, but what were we gonna do, barricade them in? They weren’t ready to face any kind of truth.” -Page 23
Logically, there could not have been a nuclear attack on Washington, because it had never happened before. If there had been a nuclear attack, then this was the end, and the world we knew didn’t just end. It didn’t end because that had never happened before. -Page 59
If there is a God, and He isn’t an interventionist, then I think He’d be feeling very disappointed by His failed experiment right about now. -Page 129
“We lost everything because of you. Stupid fucking—” She must have used a French curse word then, because I didn’t recognize it. “Fine. You got something to say as well?” Tomi folded her arms and raised her eyebrows at Van Schaik and Peter. With an expression of total contempt, Van Schaik spat on the floor. “It’s true.” “Oh, fuck you!” Tomi yelled, picking up her plate and striding out of the restaurant. “Where is the salt?” Van Schaik asked again. Lex sat down, her lip trembled, and a few moments later she got up and walked out. Lauren followed her. Everyone was watching us. Not wanting to sit alone with Van Schaik and Peter—who had said nothing and refused to look up from his food—I took my plate across the room to sit with Nathan and Tania, at my usual window table. Tania’s hair was in long braids, wrapped around her head. “Hate to say it,” she said, pushing some bean salad around her plate, “but she has a point.” I didn’t have the energy to argue with her. I wasn’t sure I even wanted to. -Page 135
I’ve also come to realize that the non-Americans are stockpiling resentment. They blame us, Tomi and me, for what happened. They look at us and see one person who voted for this to happen and another who hadn’t done enough to stop it. -Page 137
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This propulsive post-apocalyptic thriller "in which Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None collides with Stephen King's The Shining" (NPR) follows a group of survivors stranded at a hotel as the world descends into nuclear war and the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as he's waiting in the lobby of the L'Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to his wife, he receives a string of horrifying push notifications. Washington, DC, has been hit with a nuclear bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. That's all he knows before news outlets and social media goes black--and before the clouds on the horizon turn orange. Two months later, there are twenty survivors holed up at the hotel, a place already tainted by its strange history of suicides and murders. Jon and the rest try to maintain some semblance of civilization. But when he goes up to the roof to investigate the hotel's worsening water quality, he is shocked to discover the body of a young girl floating in one of the tanks, and is faced with the terrifying possibility that there might be a killer among the group. As supplies dwindle and tensions rise, Jon becomes obsessed with discovering the truth behind the girl's death. In this "brilliantly executed...chilling and extraordinary" post-apocalyptic mystery, "the questions Jameson poses--who will be with you at the end of the world, and what kind of person will you be?--are as haunting as the plot itself." (Emily St. John Mandel, nationally bestselling author of Station Eleven).

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