The Last Princess is a really cool concept. There was so much potential for this to turn into something haunting and amazing. The main problem was that it didn't go deep enough. On the one hand, the plot wasn't bad. It was fast moving and had a decent structure. On the other hand, I don't think we ever really get to know any of the characters really well. In the end I felt like both the plot and the characters were only skimming the surface of their potential. 
 Essentially the plot is that the world was consumed by 17 days of natural disasters and everything is post-apocalyptic and awful. In England, the royal family is trying to keep order and prevent a war with Cornelius Hollister. Hollister is trying to over throw the monarchy and become the king. The thing is, Hollister is super evil and like murders kids and stuff. We follow Eliza Windsor (the last princess) on her quest to rescue her siblings and stop Hollister. This is very much a plot based story rather than a character based story. This is probably why I was having a disconnected experience with it. I wanted to get attached to Eliza and root for her. I wanted to feel empathy towards her but I just couldn't connect to her. I think this was because Eliza didn't seem to feel things all that deeply either. Like I mentioned before, we're only really skimming the surface of her character development. I did like that she was capable in a fight and not wandering around like a ditz and needing to be rescued. She's very action oriented and I just wish I was able to get to know her better. 
 The Last Princess is a remarkably quick read. It's a full length novel but it feels really fast paced and I ended up finishing the whole thing over the course of a few hours spread over a couple days. A fast pace for a book with a lot of action is really essential to making the action compelling. So I did appreciate how quick moving the story was. There was a really strong foundation for the story building and the excellent structure shows. The thing is, when there is TOO much emphasis put on fast pacing it causes a lot of the finer details to be completely glossed over. For example, I read in the blurb that there were supposed to be roaming bands of cannibals in this but in reality there weren't nearly enough of them to need it mentioned in the blurb. I hoped we could take a minute to explore those people and how they came to be but no such luck. I would have loved to have taken a minute every now and again to really dig deep into something. Instead the story just kept moving at the same pace so it was a little like being in a car on the freeway and driving past something cool but not being able to get a good look because you're going too fast. 
 The potential was here for something really meaty. But we just didn't go deep enough into the world building or the plot. I mean... the story - as is - wasn't bad. It's a decent book but had the potential to be amazing. It's unfortunate that there wasn't that something extra to put it over the top. I will say that I thought the ending was pretty good. The last couple of chapters really got me in the feels and had me getting teary. So even with the skimming and the fast pace, the conclusion was very satisfying. I heard there was a sequel to this but I feel the story is complete for me and I don't see myself continuing on.