Paradies - The Last Humans

The Last Humans #3

by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires

Der UberwAltigende letzte Teil der Trilogie Die letzten Menschen eines New York Times Bestsellerautoren ist endlich erschienen.



Was bedeutet es, menschlich zu sein? Was bedeutet es, echt zu sein?

Ich dachte, dass wir der Gefahr entkommen seien. Ich dachte, wir hAtten unsere Feinde Uberlistet.

Ich hatte mich geirrt.

Als meine Welt zerstOrt wird, ist Uberleben nichts, was ich erwarten sollte.

Genres: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy

480 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 2016

About the author

Dima Zales is a full-time science fiction and fantasy author residing in Palm Coast, Florida. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked in the software development industry in New York as both a programmer and an executive. From high-frequency trading software for big banks to mobile apps for popular magazines, Dima has done it all. In 2013, he left the software industry in order to concentrate on his writing career.

Dima holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from NYU and a dual undergraduate degree in Computer Science / Psychology from Brooklyn College. He also has a number of hobbies and interests, the most unusual of which might be professional-level mentalism. He simulates mind-reading on stage and close-up, and has done shows for corporations, wealthy individuals, and friends.

He is also into healthy eating and fitness, so he should live long enough to finish all the book projects he starts. In fact, he very much hopes to catch the technological advancements that might let him live forever (biologically or otherwise). Aside from that, he also enjoys learning about current and future technologies that might enhance our lives, including artificial intelligence, biofeedback, brain-to-computer interfaces, and brain-enhancing implants.

In addition to his own works, Dima has collaborated on a number of romance novels with his wife, Anna Zaires. The Krinar Chronicles, an erotic science fiction series, has been a bestseller in its categories and has been recognized by the likes of Marie Claire and Woman’s Day. If you like erotic romance with a unique plot, please feel free to check it out, especially since the first book in the series (Close Liaisons) is available for free everywhere. Keep in mind, though, Dima Zales's books are going to be much more PG 13 . . . at least that’s the plan for now.

Anna Zaires is the love of his life and a huge inspiration in every aspect of his writing. She definitely adds her magic touch to anything Dima creates, and the books would not be the same without her. Dima’s fans are strongly encouraged to learn more about Anna and her work at http://www.annazaires.com/

Reviews

[Najah Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received an ARC of this story in exchange for an honest review.
Haven is the 3rd and final story of the last human trilogy. It starts off where Limbo left off, the day after Birth Day. Theo and Phoe's story starts off with one of many fierce battles that kept my heart pounding throughout the book. Haven kept up a level of excitement and mystery with non stop action that I have not gotten from a book in a while. The twists and turns and enemies they encounter is staggering. The sights and sounds and unreality of this world was so truly refreshing and addicting as I now wish I could continue to live in this fantasy. Haven, takes a closer look at what makes the main characters who they are. We learn about both Theo and Phoe, on a much deeper level in this book as the romance and trust between them continues to evolve. While experiencing this journey with them, I kept wondering what type of ending could possibly do them justice, I didn't think I could be happy with any ending for them actually. I was wrong, as this ending was absolutely perfect for the story line and the for the couple Theo and Phoe became. I was so I awe of the way the ending came together, that I read the last two chapters three times. I love it so much! I immediately told my friends and family about this story because it left me with such a book-high! I will truly miss the smart pixy and the inquisitive boy that helps her find herself while both getting something much better and truly unexpected as well. The book was written and executed so well, that I literally don't want to read anything else for a while, I just want to stay in my world of Haven, and you will to. This series is top notch and 5 Stars on its worst day. This is a 10 star book, best seller, award winner for sure. Wonderfully done by a great husband and wife team!

[Tajana · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an awesome book and awesome ending to this series. Wow, this is excellent. This was a new genre to me and while reading first two books, I wasn't sure how I felt about it. I did enjoy them, I love the storyline and it kept me interested to see what will happened on the end, but I thought it was maybe little slow. Everything was described into so many details, you could totally feel like you are there while reading, but because of so much detail (to me personally) it made me feel like books were slow. However this third book was awesome. Everything was happening faster in the third book and then we got answers to all the questions in the second half. Some stuff was so amazing that my mind couldn't even imagine anything like that. This opened up whole new world to me where I can fantasize now. I enjoyed the book a lot.
Ending was perfect, very futuristic and imaginary, but perfect!
This was a first set of books that I have read from Dima Zales and I will definitely check out all his other books!!!
I am recommending this series! It is fun and very interesting read. I also think younger crowd would enjoy the book a lot as it has a lot of gaming parts, artificial intelligence, virtual worlds etc.

Oh and did I mention that I absolutely love covers on these books! Super cool!
Go ahead, check it out. You will enjoy this book.

[John Loyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Last Humans book 3. Theo got the high score on the Test allowing Phoe to get more resources, and with all the forgetting going around people are none the wiser. Right?

Wrong. Haven has sent a virus to kill Phoe. Theo can no longer contact Phoe. Is she gone? That night the dormitories have an alarm and it gets hard to breathe. Theo is a little better off because Phoe had turned on his respirocytes, but he dies anyway and wakes up in Haven. What? I thought only Council members got brought to Haven and everyone one else was just stored in Limbo. No time to think about that. The Guardian says, sorry, we're going to have to send you all to Limbo and starts hacking off the heads of the new arrivals. The reasoning for him being there is logically sound and clever. I loved it. Still Haven knows there's a threat. It's one of the new arrivals, whichever one is Theodore.

Fast fun read. I love the characters. I love the love story between Phoe and Theo. Continuous action, good flow. I waited a couple weeks between Oasis and Limbo. I read this one right away, even before I wrote my review for Limbo.

Are Theo and everyone in Haven real people? At one point their physical body died, and now they're living in a virtual world. For Theo it's easier to accept, because he had been spending time with Phoe while still having a body. If you accept it for Theo, you have to accept it for everyone else. While I was reading the story I didn't think of that stuff. It just went so fast, and I loved it. 5 of 5 stars.

[Duchess · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't say this is the best read ever. But the world creation keep me more than interested. I guess some part of me hope Humans will last long enough to expand to the far reaches of our mind and universe, finally reaching immortality. (This books reminds me of the movie Inception and a host of other stories) I guess that was the most intriguing thing about this book. It flowed so naturally I could almost believe the world Dima created is possible. If the mind can think it, I must be possible, right? I thought the ending would be different and I suspected the series that Phoe was going to turn into tyrant leader or find out she was the cause of the breakdown in the society. Either was, I have to give it four stars for creativity

[Lagarto · Rating 3 out of 5]

First volume was amazing, second volume was decent, third volume was largely disappointing. There was IMHO a lot of gratuitous violence and little of redeeming value until the conclusion. The last 1/3 of the book redeems it well, but the first 2/3 really burned me out.

[E · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second book really annoyed me, but I found this book to be much more readable. My conclusion about the entire series is this: while I don't quite like the writing style, the world-building is first rate and makes up for it.

[Karen Arn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast read

I finished this book in one sitting! Don't think I've done that since I was a kid! I recommend this 3 book series!

[yazmin barkley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read still want more

Amazing absolutely adored the character development and potential of all the endless possibilities. Would definitely recommend. Loved loved loved it

[Samantha Bell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book 1 (oasis) had me interested, had great world development, and honestly once I start a series no matter how terrible I usually will finish. I was honestly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Of course jumped right into Book 2 (Limbo). This was still a good read but I just wanted more from it. Not a total bust, but didn’t carry the series forward much. It felt repeated and stale, alas I still wanted to “complete” the series so of course went on to Book 3 (Haven). After finishing it I was disappointed in its ending. Again the first book, as well as some of the second had interesting twists that kept me intrigued in the story but by this final installment it lost all momentum and felt rushed and disoriented. It’s like 1/2 way through the story was done but the author kept writing to meet a certain word count or length. Not a waste of a series but pretty disappointed in the final installment.

[Lisa winstanley]

Haven - the final book

I read all 3 in two days but wasn't blown away. Overall - a good story to pass time with but were a little like reading the instructions on a microwave meal. No plot twists & abrupt ending. Huge info dumps in all 3 books which gave me headaches. There were some fascinating parts, especially for someone who loves sci-fi, the author has a great imagination.

[Stacy Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with the second book, I found that there was a lot of repetition and too much detail with some scenes. I was glad to get to the end of the story. I felt like the ending was rushed though. I’d of much rather learnt more about the new worlds as opposed to reading about the battles in so much detail. The storyline over all three books was enjoyable, but very long winded.

[Kirundo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Do not read this book without reading the first and second one! This book and the story is confusing as it is already! I have no idea how anyone could come up with something so complex and weird like this, funnily enough, I actually quite liked it after reading the full series.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somewhat more interesting than the first two books. A bit more action and less cringe-y bits

[Dave T · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strange ending.

All in all this has been a good series although the ending found me sitting here thinking “huh”. I understand it but would never have expected it.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprising Ending

A good trilogy full of philosophical dilemmas. The ending was an interesting wrap up but fitting for the themes brought up throughout the series.

[Pamela Stompoly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful read

Loved the very real very human relationships that exist in this artificially "intelligenced" world... Would love to see more... Maybe a prequel...

[Maryann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Series was excellent the ending was perfect.

[Bryce Leo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very odd but enjoyable series. Really didn't see a happy ending coming.
"Young man discovers powerful ancient technology and becomes a god".

[Sarah Peters · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very creative sci-fi. I never see the twists coming!

[Milton H · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am a sucker for some of the concepts in this books sci-fi, along with the well written characters and good pacing is just what is baseline good in this whole series in my opinion. Theo’s autonomy issue from the previous book is better here. But man my suspension of disbelief is gone, there are so many factually inaccuracies and “what?! That doesn’t make sense.” Moments in this book, and a little of that is fine, especially if you explain in later, a moment that doesn’t make sense but can be explained away for example how the envoy found them out, but then are the things that just don’t check out physically, like how they ran out of air, given the size the bubble must be and the spaciousness it seems to have with forests and such, even active sabotage could not have messed up the air that fast, also there are very few molecules in space to carry away heat, even though it’s very cold the only way to get rid of heat is by radiation and that is way too slow for what we see aswell. That is just a small part of the intro too, considering I like hard sci fi and the science part is what I like most about the genre it’s just a little upsetting and unsatisfying.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is so not how I thought this story would conclude! I didn't really see too far into the future of the plot... I let it go without making assumptions. While I wasn't surprised by the ending it did get a little strange and technical there. I liked a lot of the ideas surrounding the merging of human and technology/AI... but the "physical" aspect was off-putting at first, and after some thought I think it was unnecessary. Maybe that's just my 30-something perspective.

[Michelle Bray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Haven is the last book of The Last Humans Trilogy. I enjoyed it so much, I read all three books in four days. The writing was clever at times predictable at others, but it did keep my interest throughout the series.

[Curtis Weldon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good finish to a enjoyable story.

[Cristian Miron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read book, nice ideas. Good to read during vacation to relax... :-)

[Idamus · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars, count for the entire series, it just didn't manage to make me to suspend my disbelief.
And the romance was rather offputting.