Author: Galaxy Craze
Release Date: May 1st, 2012
Publisher: Little Brown
Pages: 295
Age Group: Young Adult
Source: Finished copy for review

Rating: ★★★★★

Happily ever after is a thing of the past.
A series of natural disasters has decimated the earth. Cut off from the rest of the world, England is a dark place. The sun rarely shines, food is scarce, and groups of criminals roam the woods, searching for prey. The people are growing restless.
When a ruthless revolutionary sets out to overthrow the crown, he makes the royal family his first target. Blood is shed in Buckingham Palace, and only sixteen-year-old Princess Eliza manages to escape.
Determined to kill the man who destroyed her family, Eliza joins the enemy forces in disguise. She has nothing left to live for but revenge, until she meets someone who helps her remember how to hope—and to love—once more. Now she must risk everything to ensure that she not become... The Last Princess.

The Last Princess was an extremely interesting book. Galaxy Craze took a topic that has massive historical significance and breathed an entire new life on it. This book as a whole just felt really different. It is set in 2090, but it has this really odd Historical Fiction feel to it. Maybe that's just me trying to draw parallels between the things taking place within The Last Princess and then things that actually happened, that were very very similar.

Princess Eliza is a member of the British royal family, I really loved how in-depth Galaxy went with the royal family even with the mention of the newest member, Kate. Little things like that just really set the mood for this book, and allowed me to become immersed in it. The idea of the futuristic revolution was also something that I found intriguing, I love English History so I found myself finding so many parallels between the revolution that took place in this book and the one that took place in 1688 which is why I brought up that it had this really odd historical fiction feel to it.

Eliza was such an empowering character. She truly embodied everything you would expect to see in a great female protagonist. She was always able to keep her mind set on what was important, and wasn't willing to give up even if that meant her own death. Cornelius Hollister is the pure definition of evil. He was willing to do anything for power, and based on some things that took place later in the book I truly mean anything. You don't really get to hear to much about Jamie or Mary, which are Eliza's siblings but considering what they go through it is easy to see that they were extremely strong and brave characters also. I couldn't help but feel sorry for them. I think my favorite character had to be Wesley. He is just such a complex character, and it was really interesting to see how his story turned out and if it would have a positive or negative impact on everything. I also really liked the horse Caligula, she played a very important role later on in the story.

The ending was somewhat predictable others really surprised me. I was really pleased with it though, I think Galaxy did a great job wrapping up this really intriguing story.  I wish I could think of a better way to describe this book, but like I had mentioned it just had such an odd feel to it. It was really impressive how Galaxy was able to put such a believable spin on some events that actually happened in the past while adding in really awesome characters, and intriguing plot lines.

I think The Last Princess is a book that could easily appeal to people that are fans of multiple genres. I found that it had a little something for pretty much everyone. I can honestly say that I am hooked on Galaxy's writing and ideas after reading The Last Princess.

Thank you to Little Brown for providing me with a copy of this book for review.