Review of Anita Lahey’s “The Last Goldfish”
by Skylar Kay The Last Goldfish Anita LaheyOctopus Books (2020) ISBN: 9781771963435 Some books are page turners, keeping readers asking, ‘How will this end? I need to know!’ Lahey’s The Last Goldfish was, for me, not a page turner. I mean that in literally the best way possible, however. It has no air of mystery, but still kept me compelled to finish chapter after chapter because of how close I felt to the characters. Lahey explicitly tells the reader about the end result of Anita and Lou’s friendship on the book cover. There are no secrets, only emotional scenes written beautifully that make you wanna call your best friend between chapters, which often end in reading through tears, to tell them how important they are to you. The reason for the tears is simple—Lahey crafts a story of friendship that one cannot easily resist, as the reader becomes a third person in the lives of Anita and her best friend Lou. Trials, tribulations, highs, and lows—the reader is brought along on every adventure, growing more and more …