The aim, to be the last one standing, to survive in the wilderness the longest. Twelve contestants are thrown together in the wilderness with the barest of survival skills. Well, that’s what she’s telling people anyway! So when the opportunity to appear on a new reality show arises, Zoo jumps at the chance. Zoo wants a monumental challenge before settling down with her husband and starting a family. It did a very good job of scaring the you know what out of me too, bravo Alexandra Oliva. Weeks later and I’m still thinking on the themes in this novel. Crime thriller, horror, YA, dystopian, romance, survival….so many genres covered in one unsettling but completely mesmirising book. I would describe this book as multi-genre rather than a crime thriller. Yes, it’s described as a crime thriller but it’s so much more than that. Oh flipping heck! I absolutely loved this book. Is this a game with no end? alone and disoriented, Zoo must summon all her survival skills – and learn new ones as she goes.

This isn’t what she signed up for: the deserted towns and gruesome props. Beating eleven competitors in a series of survival tasks deep in the forest will be the ultimate challenge before she returns home to start a family.Īs the contestants are overcome by hunger, injury and psychological breakdown, the mind games to which Zoo is subjected grow dark beyond belief. When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In The Dark, she knows that she will be tested to the limits of her endurance.

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva