The Last Memory

by T.T. Faulkner

College student Noah Lane’s best friend always joked life was over once you turned twenty-one. Imagine Noah’s surprise when that rings true the night before his twenty-first birthday as he finds himself hopelessly protecting a beautiful homeless girl from a magical assassin. Noah didn’t die that night, but his normal life was over. Waking up from the worst birthday ever, Noah finds out his world has quite literally been turned upside-down. He's been ripped from the human world and dropped into one where magic still exists and fairy tale creatures are the norm. Not only that, but there are four other killers on the odd girl's trail.With no way home and a strange darkness growing inside him, Noah has no choice but to follow her, along with a schizophrenic werewolf and his pet Winnebago, as they journey across the magical countryside in an attempt to escape the remaining killers and destroy the mysterious being that sent them. Noah will need to embrace the darkness in order to protect his new friends and the two worlds, but in the process he might become the very thing they are running from and the catalyst that destroys everything.

Genres: Fantasy

297 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 11, 2013

Reviews

[Alyssa Lane · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I bought a signed copy of this book from Faulkner himself at Alt*Con this April, because why not? I like supporting new local talent. So I finally got to reading it, and overall I felt the writing was still very inexperienced (which makes sense, I know he's a new author, but his ideas have a lot of potential. I found some aspects a bit cheesy for my taste (the choice in names, and the almost Twilight-esque romance towards the end) but I also found some of it very good. I think he just didn't clearly convey his ideas and world as well as he could have. I do think with more time and experience though he's going to evolve into a very good fantasy/fiction writer, so I would definitely buy more of his work in the future to give it a try.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it, and the ending made me like it even more. It's the basic story of a young average guy, Noah, living his boring life until he discovers that there is another world out there, a magical world, and he leaves his own world and friends behind. Luna, a celestial princess, introduces Noah to magic, and together they journey to bring down the bad guy. Despite the basic storyline, Faulkner's writing is charged with emotion. Creative characters like the talking goldfish and the magic, mostly stemming from memories, not wands, are what made me like The Last Memory. I especially liked the part about the tree. I'm going to have to read the next in the series to find out what happens.

[Grace Sain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad but hard to keep me hooked

college kid gets yanked into an alternate reality and has to survive with the help of a girl he is infatuated with. It was an ok tale but started to get boring and I started to dislike the characters I'm supposed to root for.

[Bridget · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really, really wanted to like this book, as it was one of the few paranormal YAs that is features a male narrator. However, the book was not very well written, and I found myself unable to finish it - a very rare occurrence!!!