A series of natural disasters has decimated the earth. Cut off from the rest of the world, England is a dark place. The sun rarely shines, food is scarce, and groups of criminals roam the woods, searching for prey. The people are growing restless. When a ruthless revolutionary sets out to overthrow the crown, he makes the royal family his first target. Blood is shed in Buckingham Palace, and only sixteen-year old Princess Eliza manages to escape. Determined to kill the man who destroyed her family, Eliza joins the enemy forces in disguise. She has nothing left to live for but revenge, until she meets someone who helps her remember how to hope-and love-once more.Now she must risk everything to ensure that she does not become… The Last Princess.

Hardcover, 295 pages  Published May 1st 2012 by Poppy  ISBN  0316185485 (ISBN13: 9780316185486)

Eliza’s childhood wasn’t so bad. As a member of the royalty, she was raised with the best of everything. When the revolutionaries begins to rise up, Eliza must grow up very quickly. She sees her pregnant mother poisoned, her father shot in front of her eyes and her brother and sister kidnapped by the leader Cornelius Hollister who’s determined to take the crown by destroying all living members of the royal family.

Barely escaping with her life with the help of one of the revolution guards, Eliza is determined to find and kill Cornelius Hollister for everything he has done to her family. She has nothing else to live for and her determination pushes the story forward. She soon ends up within his camp disguised as a soldier and finds that her siblings are alive. She’s called on to fight and help bring back supplies for the army, also having to participate in raids upon the innocent, and even family friends and loved ones.

This story is very fast paced and full of action scenes. Eliza  is tortured and scarred and the difficulties that she has to endure really hook the reader into her plight.

A warning to those that are sensitive there are animal killings and torture scenes.