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The Last City of America Kindle Edition

3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

After a decades-long apocalypse, the United States has become the Seven Cities of America.

Chicago, cut off from the other cities, ruled in darkness, is home to the scientist who created the virus. Hateful of humanity, hateful of himself, the dying scientist passes his knowledge on to his apprentice, who he believes will use it to damn all life to everlasting misery.

The apprentice, Harold, his own past stained with unforgivable acts, does not share his master's hatred. But he wants this knowledge, and would shamelessly kill innocents to get it. But to what end, he struggles to realize— all the while wondering if humanity, worthless as it seems, deserves compassion more than he deserves omniscience.

As Harold struggles with his future and his identity, Chicago's ruler, the host, learns of the knowledge he has. Harold is has to flee his home.

The host, Grakus, is on a journey of his own— to prove that humanity should never have existed, to guide it to its destiny of self-destruction. He will not allow Harold to thwart his delicate plan to do so.

But Harold will not allow the host to steal his decision before he's had the chance to make it.

The Last City of America is a character-driven epic touching every corner of America, exposing every level of its beauty. The individual emulates humanity, and humanity's faults are written in the individual. The two walk with one another into the final decision. Cities fall one-by-one to man's ignorance. The world is ending. This time forever. Good and evil are reaching out to save it.

This is the story of how we will be remembered.


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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C51300Y
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2553 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 957 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

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Matthew Tysz
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I was born on May 24th, 1989, and raised on Long Island, where I attended a small town public school. My vocational path has taken me down many roads, from retail, to used car sales, to high school security, working in a network or group homes to working as a nighttime patient sitter at my local hospital.

I’m a homebody at heart, though I possess this strange fondness for city life, with an especially painful attraction to Manhattan (a place which I have lovingly destroyed in several of my stories).

I love people, though I often find I keep them at arm’s length. I love watching people, ruminating on their behavior and building little stories out of my predictions as to what each man or woman I see is going to do next. Most especially, I like to imagine them in different settings, extraordinary settings, and ponder the discoveries of such extreme displacement.

I’ve always believed that chaos is the muse of creation, and a good story is often driven by the choices made in the wake of madness.

www.matthewtysz.com

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  • Linda Kilsdonk
    5.0 out of 5 stars The story line.
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2018
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    Matthew Tysz created a book that transcends all genres - romance, revenge, heroes mystery, action and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Any book lover should enjoy reading about how America looks in 2060. I couldn't imagine how much I would enjoy this novel as I am not a fan of Science Fiction. But Matthew Tysz has taken his words and placed them together in a way that makes one want to continue reading. Yes, I'll admit that there were some problems with the grammar but nothing that I couldn't overlook as I continued to read to the end of the novel.

    Each chapter is led by one of the main characters that are conniving, evil, mad, heroic or dynamic. As you follow each of these characters through their life during this time of revolt and upheaval you are drawn into what journey they are coming to and are left wondering how this will help/hurt the 7 cities.

    Great read!
  • am304
    4.0 out of 5 stars A great epic adventure
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2016
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    I really enjoyed reading this epic book. It's a very entertaining journey in a post-apocalyptic dystopian America, where the fates and actions of the various characters intertwine to create a great adventure. There are no one-dimensional characters, nobody is just plain evil or good, and even for the most atrocious acts, you can find some sort of justification - if not excuse - in what the character in question had to go through.
  • MDG
    2.0 out of 5 stars Chaotic
    Reviewed in Italy on 18 October 2013
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    The author starts off introducing a lot of character, maybe too many. By 20% of the book the reader finally
    starts to get an understanding for them, the author starts to feel in background for them, and the story starts
    to unfold, slowly, too slowly. By about 50% of the book I was beginning to think if the story,would ever progress.

    About the time, I was about to give up, the author adds another 7 or 8 characters, and the book gets worst. The
    grammar, misspelling because intolerable, as if the author just got tired of the book. The ending was confusing
    and felt as if the author did not think it through properly.

    For a first book, maybe the author should have started off smaller, cut 200+ pages, and pay more attention to
    grammar, and sentence structure.

    2 stars because it had potential.
    Not recommended.
  • Angie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great apocalyptic story!
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 September 2018
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    If you enjoy apocalyptic books I think you'll enjoy this. It's very lengthy but if you can get past the first few chapters, you'll find yourself getting sucked in and anticipating what happens next.

    The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where America is left divided into seven cities after a virus sterilizes most of the population, and leaves humanity either fighting for a better tomorrow or for their own personal beliefs.

    The author does a great job in developing the characters and bringing different Genres to life in the story. It's like "The Purge" meets "Game Of Thrones" meets "Harry Potter."
    Although, the author tortured me a little bit in some areas where romance comes into play. (Insert chuckles.) He did manage to mix in a little romance which as a woman and hopeless romantic I can appreciate!

    Overall, if you like books that are apocalyptic in nature this is a good read.
  • Louisa S.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2013
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    This book was easy to get in to, a good range of characters who all become linked at different points of the story, with a powerful storyline which, in our ever changing society doesn't even seem that far-fetched I was drawn in to see how the lives of the characters would develop and where the Last City of America would end.

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