The Last Girl on Earth by Alexandra Blogier

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Synopsis:
Raised among them.>

Li has a father and a sister who love her. A best friend, Mirabae, to share things with. She goes to school and hangs out at the beach and carefully follows the rules. She has to. Everyone she knows--her family, her teachers, her friends--is an alien. And she is the only human left on Earth.

A secret that could end her life.

The Abdoloreans hijacked the planet sixteen years ago, destroying all human life. Li's human-sympathizer father took her in as a baby and has trained her to pass as one of them. The Abdoloreans appear human. But they don't think with human minds or feel with human hearts. And they have special abilities no human could ever have.

Fit in or die.

When Li meets Ryn, she's swept up in a relationship that could have disastrous consequences. How far will Li go to stay alive? Will she save herself--and in turn, the human race--or will she be the final witness to humanity's destruction?

 

^{I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review}

^{The blurb for this book caught my attention right away. I thought that it was an interesting take on a person caught behind enemy lines. It made me curious about what Li's life would be like and how she would manage to hide amongst aliens for so long without raising suspicion. I also thought that the cover was a nice touch. I liked how prominent the stars on the cover were and how small Li was to denote how small she is in comparison to the aliens she is hiding from and the size of the universe as a whole.} 

^{I thought that the book started off well enough with Li describing what the earth looks like in the aftermath of the extinction of the human race and the aliens taking over the planet. Her point of view grew tiresome after a while because she didn't seem to think, act, or talk much like a human. I wanted to be able to see a distinction in her head as to how different she was from the aliens. I enjoyed the points in the story when her father is training her because she seemed more human. I thought that it was clever of the author to have included this as well as the explanation as to how she was able to blend in physically with aliens.} 

^{I feel like this story was more of a romance with SciFi blended into it. I would have liked for it to be more about Li and her ability to blend and survive. I appreciated the fact that the author didn't do the typical route with a book like this but I could have done without the romance. I also thought that the romance was rushed. It seemed like insta-love to me because Ryn sees her, wants to be with her all the time, and then before you know it they are announcing their love for each other.} 

^{I would have liked more world building. I feel like I was thrown into a world that I didn't fully understand. I didn't know how the alien society worked, why Li wanted the job that she did, and why the aliens wanted to settle on Earth in the first place. The author came up with such an interesting idea and I wanted to know more about the world that I found myself in.}