Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills-and learn new ones as she goes.īut as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways-and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing.

When one of them-a young woman the show’s producers call Zoo-stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game.Īlone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life-and husband-she left behind, but she refuses to quit. While they are out there, something terrible happens-but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it.

It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance.

“Taut, tense, and at times almost unbearably real.”-Ruth Ware, author of One by One Wilderness survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in this fast-paced novel of suspense in the vein of Yellowjackets.

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva