Good morning everyone I hope you’re having a good Sunday. I’m very excited today as I’m posting the first review that my 11 year old has written. He’s always been an avid reader but since I started working at the bookshop he’s started to enjoy giving me recommendations for kids his age which has gradually drifted to him wanting to write reviews!
He absolutely loved this book and flew through it in a few days. He’s keeps talking about it and has recommended it to loads of his friends.
His review is below, he’s really nervous about posting so please give him lots of encouragement !
Huge thanks to Indie Thinking and Harper Collins for sending me a copy of this book.
Book Synopsis:
Gaming, adventure and an incredible friendship combine in this one-of-a-kind, heart-pounding, spine-tingling adventure that takes place in the space of a single night. Eerie, exciting, funny and deeply moving, THE LAST LIFE OF LORI MILLS is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before.
Eleven-year-old Lori is home alone for the first time in her life, and she’s immediately done all the things she’s TOTALLY NOT allowed to do:
1. Turned the heating up to the max.
2. Built a GIANT blanket fort in the living room.
3. Switched on Voxminer, aka the greatest game in the history
of the universe.
But quickly, Lori realises something is wrong. She can hear strange whispers coming from the screen – and soon, they’re in the house with her. Could it be Voxminer’s most terrifying legend: Shade Girl?
Trapped in her home as the doors and windows start to vanish and her phone goes dead, Lori must use all her bravery, wits, gaming skills – and the love and deep bond she shares with her BFF, Shoelace – to survive until Mum gets home…
A unique and unforgettable read that’s perfect for fans of Jennifer Killick, Christopher Edge, Minecraft and Stranger Things.
Douglas’s Review:
Lori is home alone and breaks all the rules her mum set her. It is all fun and games until she starts hearing voices coming from the console?
Then just like that she has to tread through treacherous places and somehow find a way to escape to the real world but it isn’t that easy as she thought it was.
The main character was fun and brave and has a friend that she can only call shoelace. This book is great for people that like Minecraft or other video games. It’s fast paced and really gripping. I really recommend it to all kids who like gaming.
About The Author:
Max Boucherat (he/they) was born and raised in Cardiff, where they spent more time than is probably healthy hunting for ghosts in a vast nearby graveyard. They gained an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and now live with their wife and a very old, very loud cat in a mercifully ghost-free house in Caerphilly, South Wales.
Max’s debut, The Last Life of Lori Mills, was published by HarperCollins in July 2024. It is Max’s love letter to both horror and videogames, and is the book their ghost and game-obsessed younger self would have loved to read. A sequel will follow in 2025.
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The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree 😄 Fab review, Douglas!
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Thanks so much lovely! It was a proud mum moment especially as he did it off his own back 🥰
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