Last Exit

304 pages

English language

Published Jan. 20, 2022 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-4668-2614-4
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4 stars (9 reviews)

Ten years ago, Zelda led a band of merry adventurers whose knacks let them travel to alternate realities and battle the black rot that threatened to unmake each world. Zelda was the warrior; Ish could locate people anywhere; Ramon always knew what path to take; Sarah could turn catastrophe aside. Keeping them all connected: Sal, Zelda's lover and the group's heart. Until their final, failed mission, when Sal was lost. When they all fell apart. Ten years on, Ish, Ramon, and Sarah are happy and successful. Zelda is alone, always traveling, destroying rot throughout the US. When it boils through the crack in the Liberty Bell, the rot gives Zelda proof that Sal is alive, trapped somewhere in the alts. Zelda's getting the band back together--plus Sal's young cousin June, who has a knack none of them have ever seen before. As relationships rekindle, the friends begin to believe they …

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Gladstone is a careful observer of people and places, and that shows here. His vision of millenials frustrated by the world they're born into feels nuanced and sensitive; angry, sad, and above all empathetic–without beating the reader over the head with it. Many writers are grappling with the current moment, and Gladstone does vastly better than most at writing something that captures the moment without caricaturing it.

But the ending just didn't work for me, at all. So hard for me to give it the love I might otherwise have had 3/4 of the way through.

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