Honey is the oldest Juniper sister and tasked with the responsibility of keeping her sisters in line and ensuring they always stay together. She is compassionate and strong, fierce yet approachable, thoughtful and definitely acts as the mother hen. The story is told by her and seen through her eyes, which I think was the perfect choice for a voice for this story. She is the balance of her two sisters. A piece of Blue's calm and a piece of Birdie's brash nature. She is the glue and the rational authority for her sisters, always thinking ahead and making sure they are safe. There’s movie nights and new romance budding as she navigates her way through life as a secret club member. But there’s something more going on beneath the surface.

The writing style is wonderful, I ended up super committed to it, but I confess that at first, I found it somewhat difficult to follow. Even so, I would be interested in reading more of the author, even more, if she continues writing about this type of plot, so exciting and intriguing. Across Iraq and Syria, people are working with both success and failure to free Yazidi women and girls. In THE LAST GIRL, I wanted to highlight some of the extraordinary ways in which Yazidis escape slavery. Even though by now there are so many people—from the families of the victims, to Kurdish regional government officials, to paid taxi drivers or ISIS informants — each rescue is different, and feels chaotic when it is being organized. My brother Hezni is one of many Yazidis who have given up hope of a normal life to help Yazidis fleeing ISIS.The characters are all very well developed and every single one of them has a lot of depths, especially the main protagonists, Honey, Birdie and Blue. Every sister has her own strong personality and this is shown very well. During the read I really grew fond of any them. The Last Girl could easily become it's own Urban Legend, it is an homage to proper horror, an addictive rollercoaster of a read that like all the best horror films is also hugely entertaining even as you glance over your shoulder for that masked maniac. Nadia Murad to Share Her Harrowing Story in a Memoir to be Published by Tim Duggan Books". Penguin Random House. March 29, 2017. As a gay teen, we are introduced to some scenarios where there are complete jerks around him, but seeing how he navigated this was satisfying. Even the people whom ISIS hadn’t managed to kill had lost their lives — an entire generation of lost Yazidis like my brothers and me, walking around in the world with nothing in our hearts but the memory of our family and nothing in our heads but bringing ISIS to justice.

Nadia’s story takes an ongoing conflict happening somewhere else in the world, cuts past the political environment to give you a bleak picture of the depths humanity can sink to.

Last Girl In by Cheryl Diane Parkinson – at a glance

New girl Rachel Chavez turns to horror movies for comfort, preferring them to the bored rich kids of her fancy New York High School. Among the rich kids, Freddie is another student just like Rachel who doesn’t come from money. Feeling like a kindred spirit, Rachel feels a connection with him straight away and is someone she can trust. Horror fic writers have nothing on our contemporaries. This is a story to illustrate it: a story of a girl who went through true horrors and miraculously lived to tell us about it. a b Bhardwaj, Ashutosh (June 10, 2018). "Memoir of a sex slave: Autobiography of Yazidi woman enslaved by ISIS". The Financial Express . Retrieved November 11, 2018. They are strong despite the trauma they’ve been through. They are connected despite the distance they must maintain from others around them. They are smart beyond their years despite everything that is missing from their lives.

Becoming entangled in a secret society that worships all things horror, she starts to feel like she’s where she belongs. The members welcomed her into the group and from there she became part of the team. I don't think many of us can even begine to imagine the depth of horror that has happened to all these victims. Even after reading this book, I don't expect we still could be able to understand it all.Last Girls is a breath of fresh air for YA thrillers, for sure. I’ve never read anything like this one and I enjoyed every single twist, even if some of them were quite predictable. This is so much more than a book about doomsday preppers’ lives and mysteries. It’s about family, sisterhood, brotherly love and the importance of art.