New Release: Last Light by Claire Kent + Review!

Last Light by Claire Kent 

is now available!

Blurb:

It only took four years for the world to fall apart.

Now the last member of my family has died, and I'm forced to travel across what's left of three states to find the only people I know left alive. To survive, I'll have to salvage food and supplies and try to avoid violent men who've learned they can take what they want by force. The only way I'm going to make it is by trusting Travis.

Travis used to fix my car, and now he's all I have left in the world. He's gruff and stoic and unfriendly, and I don't really know or like him. But he's all I have left. He'll keep me safe. We'll take care of each other. Until we reach what's left of our town and can finally let go of one another.

Last Light is a standalone post-apocalyptic romance set in the near future after a global catastrophe.


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Review:

4 stars **** This book was really good! Last Light is a new take on Dystopian romance. This book takes place not too far into the future and it felt very realistic. An asteroid hits Earth and nothing could be done about it. Many people moved away from the projected hit zone in Europe before the asteroid hit. But the displaced people, the tsunamis, hurricanes and other storms that were caused, as well as a lot of dust in the air, and climate change have wrought havoc on the planet. The US is a lawless area and it's everyone for themselves just trying to survive. Many people have died from sickness. Most plants and animals have died out and people have to scavenge abandoned buildings for food and supplies to live. Everything that happened was very easy to imagine and it definitely felt like something like this could actually happen one day. This book is Travis and Layne's story. Layne grew up in a small town in Georgia, raised by her grandparents after her parents died. She was sixteen when the asteroid hit and the world changed. Travis was from the same small town but he was a bit older. He worked at the town garage and serviced Layne's grandparents' cars. He was divorced with a baby (who later dies) when the asteroid hit. Now it is five years later. Their small town banded together and moved on from the town, as a group, to try to find other survivors at a army base where people have formed a safe community. But Layne has to stay behind to care for her sick grandmother. When she dies, Layne is left alone, traveling to catch up to the rest of the town. Along the way, she meets comes upon Travis, who was an acquaintance and is also traveling. They decide to trust each other and travel together, and eventually, they end up falling for each other too. I really enjoyed this story. It was unique, interesting and well written. I liked Layne and Travis a lot. He was the strong, silent type, but also a good, shy, sweet man. Layne was twenty one in the book and had been through so much. She still kept some innocence about relationships because she was so young when the world changed. In some ways, she was a lonely young girl. Both she and Travis needed each other. I really liked their slow burn relationship and felt the love between them. I did wish that they had defined things between them a bit earlier, which would have kept down the angst some and kept them from wondering where they stood. But it didn't hinder my enjoyment too much. Overall, this was a good read. I see lots of possibilities for it to turn into a series, because there are may interesting characters I can see getting their own books. Unfortunately, there is an author's note that this is her last book under the pen name Claire Kent, so that probably will not happen. But I still very much enjoyed this book and I definitely recommend it.