"The Last Day is worth a dozen Shacks."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A powerful story of one young man's faith, failings, and redemption."
—Library Journal

"James Landis' novel The Last Day is haunting and beautiful, rippling with skillfully intertwined themes of faith, love, religion and war... Reading The Last Day is like sharing [the young narrator's] thoughts, as if the story were a memoir rather than a novel. But it is a novel, and an exceptional one. Landis writes with mastery and grace, weaving together fiction and philosophy with profound beauty. Through an ordinary hero, Landis has crafted an extraordinary literary work."
—BookPage September 2009

"I've always been a huge Kurt Vonnegut fan. Now I'm a huge James Landis fan for many of the same reasons."
—Michael Palmer

"That rarest of achievements ... a wholly original book."
—Nicholas Delbanco