Ivy Moon: Last Girl on Earth

Ivy Moon Duology, Book 1

By: W. C. Furney

Narrated by: Shey Greyson

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

If a girl cries of loneliness and there’s no one alive to hear…can she still survive?

Listeners who love post-apocalypse stories will appreciate the unique perspective author W.C. Furney brings to the genre. Ivy Moon: Last Girl on Earth is a young adult, post-apocalyptic tale of a girl’s survival and self-discovery.

The story begins when the young teen who suffers a head injury emerges from a sailboat that ran aground during a hurricane. The trauma of discovering she is amnesic is soon dwarfed by the realization she is totally alone. Gradually, her expectation that people will return to the community they evacuated is replaced with the startling truth that everyone is gone. Vanished from the face of the Earth.

Hindered by a selective memory that affords only brief glimpses of her past, Ivy and her new friend Tonka—a West Highland White Terrier—set off on a quest to find other people. She soon discovers that surviving a post-apocalyptic world isn’t the adventure books and movies make it out to be.

“This is not the way it’s supposed to be,” I whisper. “In the books and movies, the survivor of an apocalypse becomes a hero…rises above all obstacles, finds other people, and begins to rebuild. No matter how horrible their existence has become, the people in those stories have reason to live. To survive. If nothing else, there are other people in these imagined worlds, either friends or foes or both. I have everything I need to survive, to live out the rest of my life in comfort. But what’s the point of having a life if there’s no one to share it with? I don’t even have an adversary to torment me. Nothing. This is no apocalypse. This is hell on earth…and I am the true walking dead.”

Ivy Moon: Last Girl on Earth is the first of a two-part series.

©2022 William Charles Furney (P)2022 William Charles Furney6

Can’t wait for sequel

This had my attention from the very beginning and held it throughout. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be pulled in and being thoroughly entertained.

A Girl with a Plan

This story starts a little slow as Ivy Moon, the name she gave herself upon awakening with no memory, is alone with only a little dog for companionship for the first part of the story. We experience each day along with Ivy as she figures out that more than a hurricane happened, and the missing people aren’t returning. The story builds as she begins to think about survival and searching for other survivors.
The last half of the novel is full of adventure and intrigue as Ivy discovers other survivors and others discover her. The story ends with a cliffhanger that leads into the next novel and makes it a can’t miss duology.
If Ivy Moon is the last girl on earth, then there’s nothing to worry about, she has a plan. I can’t wait to read or listen to the next book in this series.