Publication date 6/4/21 Audio time 10 hrs Book 237 Pages
This is a short review so there will be no links with this book mostly to save on time reviewing. I had ran out of books to review on Netgalley so I picked this book from Borrowbox and it was brilliant
Synopsis
An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom Jin and Suja met and fell in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She was a young journalist from a prominent family, while he was from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, miles away, Suja has begun to feel the tenuousness of her privilege when she learns that Jin has disappeared. Risking everything, and defying her family, Suja sets out to find him, embarking on a dangerous journey that leads her into a dark criminal underbelly and will test their love and will to survive.
My Review
This was brilliant and truly shocking novel. It was so well wrote with a fantastic sense of atmosphere. I just couldn't put it down nor predict what would happen next. This was a brilliant historic novel and brilliantly captured the moment perfectly. The characters were portrayed amazingly showing their struggles with such beauty . I listened to the audiobook and thought the narrator were fantastic adding so much to the epic atmosphere created in the writing. I will be certain to look out for more books by this stunning author in the future. Thanks to the author and publishers for portraying such a page turning, gripping, edge of your seat novel it such a fantastic sense tingling way.