About the Book- Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens
When the answers to a present-day murder lie in the past, one teen girl must examine a tragic event to prevent more lives from being lost. No one expected it to rain that much. But the rain kept coming, the dam broke, and lives were lost. One was Lucy Michaels’s little brother. She was there and while she saved the lives of many young boy scouts, despite being a child herself, she couldn’t save him.
Now eight years later, Lucy is preparing to graduate from high school and compete in the air rifle competition at the Olympics when her stepbrother goes missing right before his most important football game. The search is focused on the same plot of land where her younger brother died, and she can’t help but draw parallels.
When the search for a missing person becomes a murder investigation, Lucy knows the secrets she holds about what her stepbrother was up to that day could help find the murderer. The clues quickly connect Lucy’s ex-boyfriend to the murders, but he couldn’t be guilty… could he?
Everyone involved has their own secrets and revealing hers to the wrong person could put her life—and her whole town—at risk. Last Girl Breathing is a page-turning hunt for the truth as Court Stevens once again creates nonstop suspense with characters who will break your heart.
there are a multitude of parallel tracks and diversions that keep it chaotic.
Read on for our review of Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens
Our Review of Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens
The book is a really slow-burn thriller and because of how much it just keeps developing and constructing on the foundations, I kept losing interest and track of the multitude of characters. It took me a really long time to get the basic structure right. But I will admit that when things eventually started making sense, it was pretty interesting. It is a good thriller but it is a tricky one as it tries to use a lot of diversion and easter egg tricks which according to me only complicates everything unnecessarily.
The book has a very linear track in the beginning. What you are reading and hearing are things that are way too intriguing but the book kind of plays it very subtly and hence the first half was extremely slow and confusing. There were so many characters coming and going and then half of them kept getting missing or dead and everything was confusing. It was finally in the second or late second half that the book actually started shining to me. Honestly, I was losing interest in the middle because everything seemed to be in the air.
That is why I am glad that I stuck around till the end because the later part actually did kick up to a whole new level. In fact, the second half doesn’t even feel like part of the first book because everything is suddenly on a different level. There are a couple of time lapses in the book which also add to all the chaos and confusion. This book has some really good plot developments but I am not sure its treatment of the plot was the best because the book does have huge dips and ups. so it is interesting in that sense.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I would say that the book takes a while to come to the actual plot because there are a multitude of parallel tracks and diversions that keep it chaotic. I feel you need to have a bit of patience to have the book settle down and the actual thrills start bombarding you. The second half of the book or the later part of it definitely covers up for all the action that was missing in the beginning but the book can be a bit slow and linear in narration.
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