The Last Human

This book is bonkers. And that's a compliment by the way! I do love me a good bonkers book, and I find that the sci-fi genre lends itself very nicely as a basis to one!
Sarya is a human in a galaxy that has rid itself of that particular race for reasons that are eventually explained later on in the book, so I won't go into that here. She's masquerading as an accepted being and, when we first meet her, she is living as the adopted daughter of a widow. How this came about, we find out later too. Long story short and spoiler free, she is outed and flees her home, teams up with an eclectic mix of side kicks and starts to piece together the reasons her race is hated, where she came from, and basically what she needs to do to survive. More than that I can't really divulge here as it's all a bit convoluted and interconnected and it's all best discovered as the author intended.
I've already mentioned how bonkers the book is, and that it's bonkers in all the right ways, but it's also extremely well plotted and executed to actually being plausible within the realms of the world that has been built as its platform. Honestly, that does make sense, even with my limited experience of the sci-fi genre as a whole. I do admit to having to accept a whole bunch of stuff and hold onto a certain confusion for quite a bit of the book, but by the time I got to the nitty gritty of it all, it all did become clear. The world that the author created was credible and the history he weaved around and about the characters all made sense to me, eventually. There was enough interest and intrigue to keep me reading on and I was never confused enough to give up. My patience and understanding being well rewarded when the truth finally all came out.
And, by the end of the book, as I was reaching the final pages, I started to get a little sad that I would be saying goodbye to some of the characters I had grown close to along the way. There are some quite shocking observations to be had along the way too, some of them quite close to the mark, other delivered with some really cracking tongue in cheek humour.
All in all, a rip-roaring, bonkers, high octane, space opera that kept my attention nicely throughout and left me both satisfied and hankering for more of the same. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Totally unexpected! A roller-coaster of a read centred around Sarya, the last Human who is being raised by a Widow. A space opera with a difference, this really did make my brain hurt a little bit. Overall I loved the vast scope of this, even the bit that hurt. Fascinating characters and motivations, a brilliant read.