This book was very unique and the imagination in it was amazing.
This book was very unique and the imagination in it was amazing. It hadvery funny moments and relatable moments. The characters were very realistic and funny. There were very important messages in the book such as the importance of hope, forgiveness and understanding. The book was very funny, exciting and a totally new read unlike anything I have read before.
A wonderful, highly imaginative, fantasy adventure. The central character, Pia lives in a celestial ark with angels, ghosts and genies, which is part of a zoo filled with dreamt up mythical animals. When the angels disappear, Pia knows she has to find them before anyone discovers the truth.
The story is set in the future, after technology and the internet have broken down, humans have caused huge damage to the planet and the world is in serious peril. Pia makes a very likeable central character, she makes clumsy mistakes, her parents are ghosts and you just want her to be able to put everything right. At her review, she cannot bear to tell the Director that the angels have disappeared, but knows she is running out of time. She realises the angels have left her clues to follow and ends up going inside the Seam, where everything seems too real, including your worst nightmares and there is a real danger of getting mind-frayed, which makes it hard to tell the difference between reality and illusion. Although Pia did manage to make it out of the Seam in one piece, there were lots more tests of her courage and her whole world gets turned upside down. The end of the book was quite sad but Pia still had her friend Ishan and she could feel that there was still hope for the future. An exciting, fantasy read, packed with adventure and unusual characters.
The last zoo was perfect for me so if you like fantasy books that always have a bit of magicin them pick this book up straight away.
The last zoo was a very good book.Gripping you on to every word,it shows insight and detail that always finds a way to be key- even when you don't expect it. When you pick up a book you want it to just perfect for you and that exactly describes the last zoo for me. Pia is so easy to relate to and I'm just really glad I was allowed to read and review it.
The pages grip you until you finish the book.
The pages grip you until you finish the book; the words take you to new dimensions and make your wildest dreams come true; every sentence mesmerises you: you feel you are there, in the moment and evolved in every chapter, it makes you feel you have known the characters your whole life. It teaches you that the the world is ending and us as human beings - and the cause of the apocalypse we are living in now - are held responsible to fix it, not angels or a miracle; us, you and me. Gayton's book will educate young children and inspire this generation to save the planet we call home. It sparks new worlds into existence and makes distant impossibilities imaginable. In three words I would describe The Last Zoo as entrancing, inspirational and gripping. It is like a whirlpool, reeling you in until it has you in a trance; then you find yourself reading it everywhere: in history classes, at lunch, in the garden and in bed (even when you’re supposed to be asleep).The amazing creatures that Sam Gayton pulled out of the seam are fantastical. The way the book is written, it makes you believe that in 100 years time (when an immortality pill has been invented) this book might become a reality: who knows, maybe YOU will pull out a dragon from the seam!
The angels go missing! You might think angels don’t exist but before this story started a group of scientists dropped an R bomb which breaks reality and formed a seam in the sky - a cut between reality and non-reality - a place where imagination comes to life. I found the book exciting and mysterious.
Something bad happens at the beginning. The angels go missing! You might think angels don’t exist but before the story started a group of scientists dropped an R bomb (a reality bomb) - It breaks reality! The R bomb made a seam in the sky. It’s not very clear in the book as to what a seam really is. I think of it as a cut between reality and non-reality. The seamstress lives in the seam. Everyone who climbs the low mountain into the seam imagines the seamstress in a different way. The seamstress creates the things that people who visit the seam have in their imaginations.
Pia is a girl who is part of a group called the Rekkers. The Rekkers are a group who work at the zoo. The main challenges that the Rekkers face are to stop a devil, save the magical creatures and save the Doomsick people. Will Pia and the Wreckers succeed? You’ll have to read ‘The Last Zoo’ to find out…
I found the book exciting and mysterious. You never knew what was going to happen next. I rate it 4.5/ 5 stars. I think that the seam was an interesting concept to explain why lots of events happened. People got lost when the R-Bomb was dropped and there should be a 2nd book to find out more about them. I want to read more.