The Last Thing I Remember

By Andrew Klavan

346 Pages

Published by Thomas Nelson Publishers

★★★

By Em 

 

So, this book started as a book to just kind of fill space. I was waiting for the next book in the Gone series, and this book had caught my eye when I was browsing the book stores. So I thought, 'Meh, why not?' I started it, and well, it kept my interest, so I stuck with it. It wasn't really all that bad.  

Charlie wakes up, strapped to a chair, in more or less a torture room, and all he remembers is going to bed last night, dreaming of the girl whose number is written on his hand. Now he must wonder just how long ago that was-and how in the word he is going to get out.

Now, yes, I get it. That's an insanely short and vague description of the book. But, in all honesty, that's about all the actual book cover gave me. And I was willing to give it a chance, wasn't I? In truth, the book was very interesting, and yes, those 346 pages had more than Charlie sitting there and pondering, "Now how am I going to get out of this one?" We get his life before hand fleshed out a whole lot, which is great because its not all just, "Hey there! I just woke up in this torture room and now I'm going to break out in crazy kung fu and beat up everyone and be this awesome hero guy." No, we get a real guy, in a really scary situation. Points for a bit of realism in there!

So, beyond that, the book isn't all that believable. I'm not going to lists things like I usually would, because this book is supposed to be a bit of a surprise (hence the rather vague book description) and I don't want to spoil any of it. But, there are some things that I can see being very real, and then there's that part where I'm just like, okay, yeah, right...

I did like how Charlie starts to think about the stuff that happened to him on the day leading up to the waking up in a torture room event. We get these kind of flash back chapters that explain his day, what happened and so on. And the author placed them at points where they seemed they would be relevant, which I liked. They tended to have something to do with what was happening, or tell us something we would need to know for something coming up soon. 

So, that's about all I'm going to leave you with. Like I said, I don't want to reveal to much, because this book is supposed to be one ol' big surprise! If you like suspense, I think you'd enjoy this book a lot. I recommend that anyone give this book a chance. It's unique and interesting. I'm curious to read the next one and see what other surprises are in store.