A review by reading_rainy
Last Call by Naomi Lucas

4.0

**3.5**
This one is hard to rate. It’s not a simple sci-fi romance. It’s kinda horror too.

The souls of the girls before her were not the same ones she had grown up with, but a macabre mass of angry, painful emotions that had settled in and rotten in a place from which there was no escape.

We’ve got a half cyborg hero, Jack, who is build for war. Allie has lived her short existence knowing she is going to be sold as a “breeder”. She escapes with a few of her female friends and they crash land on a planet. Allie is the lone survivor. She’s been surviving on this desert-like planet for over 5 years, alone, eating worm larva (or something like that). It reminded me of the movie “Tremors” and possibly “Dune” with the sand worms popping up to eat her.

It took me awhile to warm up to this story and get into the world building. The cover makes you think it’s some steamy sci-fi, and it does have steam, but it’s oddly creepy too.