The Last -

Hanna Jameson

Atria Books

2019

340 páginas

11h 20m

ISBN-10: 1501198823

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.

Now, two months later, there are twenty survivors holed up at the hotel, a place already tainted by its strange history of suicides and murders. Those who can’t bear to stay commit suicide or wander off into the woods. Jon and the others try to maintain some semblance of civilization. But when the water pressure disappears, and Jon and a crew of survivors investigate the hotel’s water tanks, they are shocked to discover the body of a young girl.

As supplies dwindle and tensions rise, Jon becomes obsessed with investigating the death of the little girl as a way to cling to his own humanity. Yet the real question remains: can he afford to lose his mind in this hotel, or should he take his chances in the outside world?

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Alguns acontecimentos do final me incomodaram? Sim.
O protagonista bancando o intelectual e super auto-consciente de seus erros me irrita? Sim.
Mas achei muito bem escrito e o formato dele também me agrada muito. Achei bizarro o quão plausível esse "fim do mundo" fictício é, olhando pro nosso mundo de agora. Outro ponto que me agradou muito foi o fato de se passar em um hotel na Suíça, com personagens de diferentes nacionalidades. Além de ter um pouco de mistério e investigação no meio, coisa que adoro. Um ótimo achado esse livro.