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Title: Last Off

Author: Laughton Chandler

Narrator: Jake Wardle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-13

Publisher: The St. Ambrose Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Four young stowaways - illegal passengers, below even the 3rd class - find themselves on the R.M.S. Titanic, the grandest ocean liner in the world on her maiden voyage. At first unknown to each other, hailing from four different countries, they begin to learn about each others' pasts as they bide their time in the bowels of the ship, united in their hopes of making a new life in America. When disaster strikes, what will become of them? Who, if any, will be able to escape the epic tragedy Walter Lord described as "the death of a small town?"

Members Reviews:

Intriguing Story!

I've always been fascinated by any story about the Titanic, but this one had me hoping against hope that I had missed a back story. I wasn't disappointed!

brilliant fictional novella

How much I enjoyed the book: 9/10

How good the book was: 9/10

Where to begin with Last Off... If I had read the entire book in one sitting, I would have been bawling by the end. Fortunately for me, I read the book over two days and this wasn't the case.

The overall plot of the novella remains true to the disaster and so the ending of Last Off is tragic. Yet my brain did not manage to compute this right away and so I found myself still hoping for a happy ending. Of course I was left devastated when the metaphorical faeces eventually hit the fan. Or in this case, when the ship hit the iceberg.

We aren't given much information about the characters but I developed an immediate liking for them. All four stowaways are boys, allowing them to form the foundations of what could have been a great friendship.

The boys disappear one at a time and I can't tell you how frustrated that made me! Particularly since the ending only tells us about one out of the four boys! As a casual reader I wish we'd been given more details, but as a literature student I can appreciate the fact that my exact need for detail is what the family of the passengers on The Titanic had felt after hearing the news. So I've chosen to see this as excellent writing technique rather than a frustrating missing feature.

Last Off reminds me somewhat of Night of the Purple Moon. Both books were written extremely well in terms of characters, pacing, story line and both books feature children/young adults as the protagonists. Whilst I respect both writers and cannot fault their writing, the abundance of tragedy in both books prevents me from loving their work.

So yes it was a brilliant book; there's no denying it. On the other hand, I can't help but feel that by the end of my reading, some part of my soul was suddenly taken from me, leaving me with an empty feeling.

Last Off definitely leaves you with a lasting impression.

Disclaimer: I received this book for free from the author, Laughton Chandler, for review purposes. At no point did I receive any payment to write this review.

Nice historical fiction about the sinking of the Titanic

I love historical fiction, and also really enjoy stories about the Titanic, so I was excited to read Laughton Chandler's novella, Last Off. Last Off is about four young teen boys who are stowaways on the Titanic.

Hugh seemed to be the main character (in my opinion), but the reader gets to know all four boys fairly well. I appreciated the boys' unique histories, and enjoyed reading about how each came to be a stowaway on the Titanic.