Logan Keys

This is a call out to all those lovers of genre-bending! We've got a zombocalypse, an enormous fight for freedom from an authoritarian regime, cancer victims, hulk-outs, and even a bit of poetry and music.

What more could we ask for in a YA?

Um, we could always ask for and receive some actually nice romance. Yeah! Romance! Liza and Jeremy are so cute together! Maybe I'm just a sucker for writers who love musicians. Or maybe it's the purple eyes or the nigh-immortality or the sweetness in the show more face of all these hungry shambling hoards (and even the zombies!)

Of course, this book isn't all about the list of cool features or even the fact that we even get time to wage war with Tommy and hulk out as if we're all playing an awesome game of Resident Evil with a very, very generous dose of Alice In Wonderland. Cool, right?

And all the while Jeremy is out to free them all from the terrible yoke of the elite rich and their dangerous survival techniques. Come on! I *love* body mods. Of course, these kinds of body mods are a bit extreme, but what can we do! It's an extreme kind of world! :)

This book has great pacing and a lot of fun characters and action and character development, but none of that is quite as amazing as the end. Fair warning, however... these kinds of reveals might absolutely prevent you from avoiding the next book in the series. :) :)


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The last City By Logan Keys took me completely by surprise. It was one of those stories that I started to read and thought I'm not going to like this! why? you may ask, well I usually find that within minutes of starting a new book I can usually surmise if the writing style is one I'm going to like.
strangely with the last City, the first couple chapters didn't gel with me at all and I thought oh ow what a shame, it sounded so epic sigh.
Then BAM!!!! I don't know what happened but I couldn't show more put the bloody thing down, It was like my kindle was permanently attached to my hand, where I went so did it follow and my poor family was second best to this amazingly addictive unique Tale that I was on a mission to finish.
How to adequately describe The last city to do it justice mmmm, well I will start by saying this novel had a bit of everything, it wasn't really a romance or dystopian or even futuristic, it wasn't quite a supernatural or science fiction it had a mash up of everything and didn't concentrate on any one specific genre.
It really shouldn't have worked but it did.
Now to give a brief summary of this story here we go.
The last city starts originally by skipping between two character's stories, Liza and Tommy.
Liza is sick and is practically a prisoner and has been sent to the island to die.
shockingly she is the first ever to recover and is shipped back to the mainland to live in Ash city.
Tommy is a young soldier, he is a special, which basically means he has been experimented on and has been changed into something else. think the Hulk without the green tinge, you don't want to make Tommy mad he's liable to tear you limb from limb.
Their tales unfold separately all having a part to play in the final shocking picture and believe me, I was gobsmacked and also heartbroken for Liza when we get to the final distressing scenes.
As our saga reaches its final curtain the stage has been set for book two with Tommy and Liza placed strategically together, it's almost like the perfect checkmate ready for act two.
I've tried to give a sense of this book without giving anything away, take my word for it this is one book that is gonna grab you by the throat.
There something for everyone, We have Zombies, Vampires, super humans all set against a backdrop of a corrupt government, where the world's gone bat shit crazy and everyone's just trying to survive the best they can.
In conclusion, this was an unbelievably fascinating read and I relished every morsel and crumb it had to offer. I really can't think of any negatives, Logan Keys Did a brilliant job creating this post-apocalyptic read. This is the first book I have read by her it definitely won't be the last.
I received a free copy of this e-book from NetGalley and this is my unbiased honest opinion.

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ROBOT. :)

First off, I thought this was a much better and less high-handed approach to Asimov's Centennial Man and I appreciated the dark humor much more in this story, too! :)

I must admit, I'm already a fan of the author because she's fun to talk to, so this here *might* appear to be a horribly prejudiced review in sick favor for a writer who just happens to be cool. BUT LET ME DISABUSE YOU OF THAT NOTION. ;)

Honestly, the robot story hooked me right off the bat and I felt more for Barkley show more than any of the humans he outlasted, but how fun it was to watch them go about their lives and think themselves so clever! :) It's refreshing to have a regular robot become an actual likable Everyman that everyone unconsciously revolves around.

But of course the story is much more than that, and I think it's superior to Asimov, thank you very much, and not least because it's a modern-type story with our oh-so updated sensibilities. :) So, bravo! :) Clear and clever writing and an engaging story with an awesome character for the win!

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This one picks up a bit after the nasty surprise revealed at the end of the first novel and puts us squarely in Anthem's war-hungry society, with our main characters finding themselves becoming increasingly the odd men-and-women out. Tommy still has hulk issues and Liza continues to serious mean-author issues, but I am loving both all the more for it.

I wish that all YA was written more like this. The ideas and the society, while having plenty of similar tones to other YA, is practically show more overflowing with ideas in comparison. Plus, the mashup of genres is working very well for me. I mean, we're missing werewolves, thank god, but we've got super-soldiers, crazy parties, near-immortal hulk men and plenty of drowning, stabbing, and hanging to keep all you YA lovers in fine form. :)

Because it's not YA without torture... You know it isn't. Admit it. :)

Do I have any complaints? Not really... unless I was in the mood for more plot... but since I didn't expect anything other than a character-based novel full of mashups and cool action and moral angst, I was perfectly okay with it. Not everything needs to be about complicated plots. :) Sometimes it's all about freedom and memory and survival and the growing horror that you're the monster that you're trying to stop.

And as the previous novel ended with a truly nasty surprise, this one does too, but this one's on steroids. :)

Nasty, bad author, to toy with us poor unsuspecting readers like that. ;o
I'm totally hooked and it's all her fault!


And as before, I need to thank the author for the chance to review BOTH books. I love being surprised with good stuff. :) EVEN IF it's YA. :) show less