Last Exit, Max Gladstone
Last Exit, Max Gladstone
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Last Exit

Author: Max Gladstone

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 21 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/08/2022


Synopsis

Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Max Gladstone weaves American myths—the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy—into a deeply emotional tale.

When Zelda and her friends first met, in college, they believed they had all the answers. They had figured out a big secret about how the world worked and they thought that meant they could change things.

They failed. One of their own fell, to darkness and rot. Ten years later, they’ve drifted apart, building lives for themselves, families, fortunes. All but Zelda. She’s still wandering the back roads of the nation. She’s still fighting monsters. She
knows: the past isn’t over. It’s not even past.

The road’s still there. The rot’s still waiting. They can’t hide from it any more.

Because, at long last, their friend is coming home. And hell is coming with her.

About Max Gladstone

Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning author, Max Gladstone, has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and once wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat. He is the author of many books, including Last Exit, Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This Is How You Lose the Time War. His dreams are much nicer than you'd expect.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

Here's what you probably need to know. This is a gloriously multi-genre-mashing horror/fantasy/SF epic. The blurb doesn't do it justice. Think SK's Dark Tower meets IT. Flavor it well with gorgeous small-line language that's some of the best, so evocative. Break up the story between two time periods......more

Goodreads review by Trish

Ten years ago, Zelda and a few of her college friends, including her girlfriend Sal, discovered that they could step from this world into alternate ones and that they have "knacks". But what sounds like a cool adventure full of exploration and bold stuff soon turned very dark because those "alts" ha......more

Goodreads review by Scratch

Generally, I like Max Gladstone. He has a nice mixture of sci-fi, fantasy, and moody protagonists who also happen to be heroic. This particular novel is only a reluctant 4 stars, though. The whole point of the novel is that the main characters were also struggling to fight "The Rot" between alternat......more

Goodreads review by Elena

Stars: 2.5 out of 5 It pains me to give a less than stellar rating to Max Gladstone, but this is the first book of his I've been disappointed with. How can a book about found family, road trip, end of the world, parallel universes and so on be so... boring? I loved this author's Craft series. They are......more