The Last Cuentista product reviews

I was given this book to read just before the holidays and when I saw that it was a sci-fi with a mexican protagonist, I was keen to give it a try. We join Petra as she and her family are planning on leaving Earth, due to the unavoidable meteor that is about to wipe out all life on the planet (and of course, given a little hint about the sinister folk who change everything). Petra is put into stasis with the promise of a head full of knowledge and her family waking up with her, all with the aim of settling on a new planet. Of course, this was never going to go to plan.

Petra is affected differently, when in stasis and when she wakes up, she discovers, that not only is her family not there, the humans awake have mutated and those being brought out of stasis have had their memories of Earth erased (the whole idea being that if humanity was to forget and given a more rigid, structured life without the arts, food, love etc. we would thrive better). While I liked that Petra was trying to figure things out, solve the mystery of what the Collective's plan was and of course, save the day, it just wasn't as cohesive as it could have been.

With a few things that just don't make sense or are never explained (when it could have been ease enough to do) the story wasn't as believable as it could have been. A young lad growing up in that world and knowing NOTHING else, easily switches sides, there's never any explanation as to why Petra is unaffected by the memory wipe and a few other things I can't mention without giving away spoilers. This has a good premise and is certainly well done, perhaps don't read it if you're more of a critical thinker and bound to notice the plot holes.