Will Dean excels at thoroughly creeping you out, not through the guise of supernatural, but with the overwhelming capacity of humans to be cruel and evil. The Last One embodies the definitions of page-turner and addictive, with a mesmerizing narrative that keeps readers and characters in the dark. I haven’t felt this compelled to get to the bottom of a clever whodunit mystery in the longest time.
Told in the first-person POV, the narrative takes readers on a cruise ship through the eyes and ears of the protagonist, Caz Ripley, as she steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica with her lover. One day later, Caz wakes up to find all the cabin doors open and the ship completely empty. No passengers, no crew, nobody but her. The Atlantica is steaming into the mid-Atlantic and Caz is seemingly the only person on board. But is she really alone?
The Last One is a crafty thriller that never gives you the whole picture until the opportune moment it builds towards. It’s filled with misdirections, intense drama, and an eerie sense of something about to go horribly wrong throughout the pages. It falls well into the horror genre as it genuinely sends chills down your spine keeping you in gripping suspense. You become terrified to find out the secrets the ship may hold, such is the charm of Will Dean to put you in the shoes of the characters so aptly.
Will Dean is a genuine master of unsettling, captivating, and mysterious art in literary form, swirling in the ether with relatable characters and resonating consequences. The Last One keeps you strapped in and mesmerized by the haunting tone and sheer unpredictability of the plot as one chapter may point to a prediction that gets shot down marvelously in the next one with a jaw-dropping revelation that leaves you jarred.
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