The Last Girl

The Dominion Trilogy, Book 1

By: Joe Hart

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

A mysterious worldwide epidemic reduces the birthrate of female infants from 50 percent to less than one percent. Medical science and governments around the world scramble in an effort to solve the problem, but 25 years later there is no cure, and an entire generation grows up with a population of fewer than 1000 women.

Zoey and some of the surviving young women are housed in a scientific research compound dedicated to determining the cause. For two decades, she's been isolated from her family, treated as a test subject, and locked away - told only that the virus has wiped out the rest of the world's population.

Captivity is the only life Zoey has ever known, and escaping her heavily armed captors is no easy task, but she's determined to leave before she is subjected to the next round of tests...a program that no other woman has ever returned from. Even if she's successful, Zoey has no idea what she'll encounter in the strange new world beyond the facility's walls. Winning her freedom will take brutality she never imagined she possessed, as well as all her strength and cunning - but Zoey is ready for war.

©2016 Joe Hart (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Suspend disbelief, and your common sense.

I understand this is supposedly post Apocalypto of some kind but it is one of the worst stories I have read with no stable plot. I hate having a pretty good understanding of how babies are made and how the sex is dictated. It was so many flaws within the scientific part of the story, and character development. They never once looked at all the men that was inhabiting the earth in droves. The story had too many holes, and nothing was tied up at the end of the book.

Amazing writing

A great story with a compelling protagonist. Such amazing writing, really a pleasure to read. Great performance too. Can't wait for more.

slow beginning

...but if you can manage to get past the first 60% of the book, it really kicks up. The last 2.5 hours I listened to all at once, which was extra surprising because the first 4 hours took me like 2 months to get through. Felt a bit like The Handmaid's Tale for a slightly younger audience. Predictable but depth of content shocked me in some areas (rape triggers).

terrific story line

loved the narrative. It kept me on my toes twists and turns. Fell in love with this book can't wait to read the next one.

Awesome story line.

The thought that humans could go extinct is strange until you hear why. And the lengths people would go to in order to repopulate l shows the scary side of some people in the world. While others just want it to stay safe and normal. Interesting read.