From the bestselling author of the Inner Movement trilogy and the Cosega Sequence, comes The Last Librarian, (book one of the Justar Journal).
In the year 2098, there is no more war, no more hunger and no more pollution. The world is secure and Earth’s 2.9 billion people are healthy and happy. There is also only one remaining library that still houses physical books. In addition to the dusty … addition to the dusty volumes, the library holds many secrets. But the government has decided to shut it down and burn the contents. Unless an unlikely trio can save the books, humanity will lose more than just what is printed on those antique pages.
With a single government ruling the entire planet, one currency, one language and no religion, the population is unified and enjoying the prosperity that comes with more than seven decades of peace. Free healthcare for all and guaranteed employment make the future a dream. But this future may only be safe if they can hide the past. The books must be saved . . . the impossible task is up to an angry author, a brazen revolutionary and the last librarian. When everything is perfect, the only thing left to fear is the truth.
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For those of us who worry about the supposed truths we are told, this book is fabulous. I loved the characters and the story is Orwellian enough to make you think.
Earily predictive and suspenseful
Like other Brandt Legg novels, this is highly imaginative, yet a thoroughly plausible and dysfunctional future.
wish I had known it was the first in a 3 book series before I started it.
To slow for me I like to jump right off the first chapter
A good read!
This book is a scary prequel to what can happen. or is happening, because of our dependence on electronic communication. And our push toward a world government. I found it ironic that the copy I have is an ebook.
Gripping dystopian story that emphasizes the importance of the printed word. It also follows the events that turn a seeming ordinary man into the greatest threat to the ruling class. What appears to be the perfect society is actually maintained by ruthless enforcement of the status quo.
Also this book fantasy but there is at it foreseen where our world moves.
I didn’t make it very far in this book. I thought it would be a great theme, but it was poorly written.
Fantasy but so could be happening today.
This book moved so slowly with so much meaningless blah. blah, blah, yak, yak, nothing happening, it was a DNF at page 51. Yeah, I hung on that long hoping it would pick up; it did NOT.
I enjoyed
One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Many of the futuristic gizmos described, could easily become reality sooner than later. As for the politics
which are mainly based on money and lies,eerily parallels todays.
Page turner! Loved reading this book. Kept you on edge of your seat. Although fictional, could have be the real deal in the future.
Exellent near future fiction chilling predictions and worning to all who are not concerned with the state of our republic
Should be a required reading in school, but allas it never will.
Cant wait to get the next in series
I hate writing reviews as my taste is often very different from the writers of the books I read. I like post-apocaliptic stories but this one, while the premise is good, seems to drag on and on while nothing much actually gets done, at least as far as I read before I got really bored and gave up. Someone else might find this book enthralling and entertaining. I hope so. The idea of secretly saving the best of the books from the last library on earth, from a corrupt government’s censorship, is a good one.
Very interesting story and we’ll written.
One of my favorite classics is Fahrenheit 451. so this title piqued my curiosity. It takes this subject into a whole new world, that is frightening believable for our not-so-distant future. I will probably continue reading the rest of the series because I like to finish things, but not with any real sense of urgency. It was good, and I’m not sure why I didn’t think it was great. One thing was, there is a lot of abbreviations, and it took me a while to remember them all. I had to take notes. It wasn’t until I got to the end of the book (on my e-reader) that I discovered the listing of all that stuff. A real book would have made the experience easier for me.