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Series: The Ending #1
Publication date: November 23rd, 2013
Pages: 590
Synopsis:
The first book in the emotionally charged post-apocalyptic series, The Ending Series.
They may have survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed them...
Grad student Dani O'Connor won't let a cross-country move end her closest friendship. But when a mysterious virus consumes the world and Dani, herself, falls violently ill, she fears she'll never see her loved ones again. After her fever finally breaks, she barely recognizes the devastated world around her. Everyone is dead. Dani is all alone. Or so she thinks...
As a bartender, Zoe is used to dealing with hotheads and dirtbags, but nothing could have prepared her for the twisted thoughts of her fellow survivors. Her family is gone, and anyone left alive in the world is either sick, crazy, or changed... like her. As her newfound super senses gain strength, Zoe must learn to control them before she loses herself to madness completely.
Perilous terrain spans the distance between them, and deranged survivors lurk in dark corners everywhere. Can Dani and Zoe overcome deadly attacks and unseen dangers in order to find each other? Or will they lose their way--and their lives--along the journey?
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Review:
I received an e-copy of this book from the publishers at NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
There are always those books that sound mediocre from the synopsis but blow you away once you tuck into their pages. This is one of those books for me. Don't get me wrong, the synopsis is intriguing and it is, of course, what originally drew me into the story, but there is so much more to it than what is written above.
Dani is a spunky redhead with a filter problem when she's angry and a determination that makes her instantly likable by almost everyone she encounters. When the Virus struck she was happy and in love with a man named Cam. She was living in Seattle and counting the days until she can see her best friend, Zoe, again on holiday break. When the Virus strikes and Dani is one of the few left alive and sane, all she can think about is getting to Zoe. She has no idea how she will achieve this goal until Zoe's hunky older brother, Jason, comes along and orders Dani to accompany him to meet up with his sister. Traveling with the source of Dani's adolescent fantasies and making their way to her best friend? Sign her up!
Zoe is working at an art gallery on the East coast. She is a long way from her family and her best friend. Determined to make her way to the only family she has left, she joins with a small party of friends and military strangers and starts their trek across the country. Along the way Zoe encounters more Crazies and cruel-hearted people than anyone could hope to avoid. In one particular incident she is rescued from certain death from a tall, dark, mysterious man who seems to dislike her on sight. He avoids her and refuses to even look at her most of their time together. However mysterious, Jake, chooses to be, Zoe is determined to know him and thank him for saving her life repeatedly.
Not everything in the book was realistic, of course. What book can be 100% factual without it being non-fiction? The internet seems to hold out for several days, weeks, months, etc, even though there are no company workers to keep it up and no endless source of electricity to keep the towers operational. Yet, in the story they had the internet right up until the end. I know they needed some sort of way for the girls to keep in contact, but it was just a bit odd to me. Not that it AT ALL ruined any part of the story for me. I absolutely adored this book and am dying to find a physical copy to add to my collection.
This book encompasses everything from adventure to romance and from lonesome fear to a feeling of togetherness and safety. After the Ending is a fascinating apocalyptic tale of a possible end to the world as we know it. A virus surging from the bowels of our society and discriminating billions of human lives is not a completely implausible story. That may be what makes this book that Fairleigh and Pogue created such a frightfully amazing read.
There are always those books that sound mediocre from the synopsis but blow you away once you tuck into their pages. This is one of those books for me. Don't get me wrong, the synopsis is intriguing and it is, of course, what originally drew me into the story, but there is so much more to it than what is written above.
Dani is a spunky redhead with a filter problem when she's angry and a determination that makes her instantly likable by almost everyone she encounters. When the Virus struck she was happy and in love with a man named Cam. She was living in Seattle and counting the days until she can see her best friend, Zoe, again on holiday break. When the Virus strikes and Dani is one of the few left alive and sane, all she can think about is getting to Zoe. She has no idea how she will achieve this goal until Zoe's hunky older brother, Jason, comes along and orders Dani to accompany him to meet up with his sister. Traveling with the source of Dani's adolescent fantasies and making their way to her best friend? Sign her up!
Zoe is working at an art gallery on the East coast. She is a long way from her family and her best friend. Determined to make her way to the only family she has left, she joins with a small party of friends and military strangers and starts their trek across the country. Along the way Zoe encounters more Crazies and cruel-hearted people than anyone could hope to avoid. In one particular incident she is rescued from certain death from a tall, dark, mysterious man who seems to dislike her on sight. He avoids her and refuses to even look at her most of their time together. However mysterious, Jake, chooses to be, Zoe is determined to know him and thank him for saving her life repeatedly.
Not everything in the book was realistic, of course. What book can be 100% factual without it being non-fiction? The internet seems to hold out for several days, weeks, months, etc, even though there are no company workers to keep it up and no endless source of electricity to keep the towers operational. Yet, in the story they had the internet right up until the end. I know they needed some sort of way for the girls to keep in contact, but it was just a bit odd to me. Not that it AT ALL ruined any part of the story for me. I absolutely adored this book and am dying to find a physical copy to add to my collection.
This book encompasses everything from adventure to romance and from lonesome fear to a feeling of togetherness and safety. After the Ending is a fascinating apocalyptic tale of a possible end to the world as we know it. A virus surging from the bowels of our society and discriminating billions of human lives is not a completely implausible story. That may be what makes this book that Fairleigh and Pogue created such a frightfully amazing read.
