There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her Abuelita.
But Petra's world is ending. Earth will soon be destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.
Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether.
Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?
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LITA TOSSES ANOTHER PINON LOG ONTO THE FIRE.1
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(Piccadilly Press, 1 September 2022, e-book, 267 pages, borrowed from Glasgow Libraries via Overdrive, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book set in space)
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I chose to read The Last Storyteller because it fit the Popsugar category. I'd never heard of it or the author before. I enjoyed this book a lot. The book opens in dramatic fashion with Petra's trip to her new world cruelly interrupted by the creepy Collective determine to twist humanity's narrative and memories to their own devices. This is a pretty dark book at times considering it's intended for a younger audience. I was never sure where they story would lead which I liked a lot. I enjoyed reading this and would recommend it.
