I felt myself really disconnected from Niamh who, despite the fact that murders, assaults and goodness knows whatever else, is going on around her, is more concerned about the spelling and pronouncement of her name by people she has only just met. Instead, I got a blossoming romance novel with murder on the side. I was expecting a thriller-esque story with layers of complexity. When I picked up this book from the library, I didn’t realise it was a Young Adult novel, and quickly realised that this book wasn’t going to be as good as the blurb made it sound. As a part of her Drama Course she works as a tour-guide at a small, victorian museum where she meets Tommy the boy of her dreams. While there she is at the centre of a rather grizzly series of events involving, new friends, girls that look suspiciously like her and a handful of strangers she has never met. Last One to Die follows the story of Niamh, a sixteen-year-old from Ireland, and her journey to London to enrol on a six-week acting course. I picked this book up from the local library, as the blurb/synopsis appealed to me and I thought it would make a refreshing read compared to the amount of Sci-Fi/Black Library I have been guzzling lately!
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