My reasons for reading Y: The Last Man were threefold. The
first, it was recommended to me by Goodreads, who I commonly turn to for
recommended reading though they don’t always pick good books. Second this
series is written by Brian Vaughan who did the Saga series which I have loved
so far and continue to read as they come out. And finally it looked interesting when my brother was reading it. They couldn't all be good reasons.
Y: The Last Man follows the life of struggling magician Yorick
and his monkey Ampersand after all the other males have suddenly dropped dead. Babies,
seniors, teens, all of them. This holds true for all the other species as well,
if it was male it is dead. Searching for answers he pairs up with a special
agent named 355 and a geneticist and cloning expert named Alison Mann. But can
they figure out what not only caused all the men to die but also a way to avert
disaster before the Amazon’s (a radical hate group convince that this plague
was God’s wraith) manage to finish off poor Yorick.
This series was certainly an interesting read, though it
only barely scrapes by in the plausibility sector. If there was only one person
of a gender left after a plague sweeps the earth, the chances of that person
dying in some sort of disaster are astronomical. Especially when the book
mentions the out of control fires, planes crashing all over the world, etc. I
am also fairly certain that this book would have been a much darker horror
story if it was reversed, meaning that there was only one woman left alive.
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