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birdloveranne's review
2.0
Sorry to say, this was pretty bad. I did like the descriptions of the world after. But the characters....dear god. Other reviewers say the female is TSTL. Well she isn't the only one. They are all pretty idiotic. And the ending was bad. What happened to the big baddie? Very badly done. And then Trevor's decision....well the whole male vs female thing was not well done. Love this author! But this story just didn't do it for me.
wilko's review
3.0
This was a good raunchy romance rather than a apocalypse read with some romance which was a bit disappointing but it was still a good read. Rachel a meek 19 yo meets sexy marine Adam after 99% of the population dies from a virus. This is more of a coming of age book for Rachel and learning what it means to be a submissive while being one of the few survivors in an apocalyptic world. There are some good end of the world twists, some crazy moments and the pace of the book is good. The characters are developed to a certain point and I do hope that book 2 in this series continues to develop them so keen to read book 2 to see where go.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book
geo_ix's review
1.0
I’m so mad... I’m part of an online book club, and a while back this was the months pick and everyone who read it was raving about it, that they loved it so much they read all three books back to back. I’d never really participated during our readalongs because I was alway busy, but this sounded like something I’d LOVE> (it was not) and they hyped it up so much I was sure I’d love it too (I did not).
I hated the heroine, and I hated the hero. She was dumb as FUCK, and he was a complete wanker. Examples as to why:
- when they finally come across survivors, there’s a guy with a SWASTIKA on his neck, and a biologist and they’re living it up in a in a bands tour bus. They lure her in there to see how cool it is (after swastika hits on her) and they put on the movie Die Hard. THAT is what makes her demand they travel with them. Not that they have a solar powered bus with heaps of stuff, or anything useful. No, that they have access to watch her favourite fucking movie.
- Biologist has lost his kids and wife, and she’s told about it a page before, then when she’s with him next she’s thinking about how he never smiles and that he looks ‘emotionless’ and later on gets all giddy that she made him smile. He’s depressed, leave him the fuck alone.
- Hero has this ‘kink’ where he basically wants to own her and call ALL the shots in their relationship ship. He also has a kink where he likes to watch other men fuck his> lady and basically gets off on driving the scene. Swastika brings it up she’s the only lady they know is alive and that he wants a piece of her. Hero is against it all until Swastika mentions he will gladly have a threesome with them, be the third and do whatever Hero says & that he’s done it before. Hero is salivating and agrees, as long as Heroine accepts. Hero then pushes them together so she can say yes, then when she finds out and is mad he basically dealt her out, he says to her that Swastika did the right thing by coming to him and asking to make sure he wasn’t stepping on his toes. He continually says their sex stuff is for HER pleasure, while playing out HIS fantasies and not bothering to ask what she’s into...
- she has 30 MINUTE SHOWERS. When Biologist brings it up she basically has a MELTDOWN, claiming she HAS to have showers that long because she’s a female and it’s necessary That they’re that long because she has SO MUCH to do in the shower, like wash and condition her hair, and shave her legs, because she’s a female. Like, is that 100% necessary for survival? And the Dicks that want in her holes both pipe up like ‘she can have my time’ and it don’t mind’, instead of going oh shit probably could use that power for more useful things. For, shave your legs before and rinse them off in the shower. In NO WORLD, is it necessary. You’re wasting precious water for staters. It’s not even the only stupid thing she wastes. Later on Biology comes back and says she’s sneaking outside to turn the generator on every night so she can turn on the air conditioning. He’s all worried about fuel consumption, and she literally got whiney that he was grilling her about why it was going down. She has a tantrum, questions why he’s checking the fuel levels, tries to gaslight him being all like ‘what’s this got to do with me’, tries to pin it on the other guys before admiting, he’s, it was her and that he should handcuff her and take her to jail (sarcastically). He asks why she would do it, and she’s like ‘God, you make it sound like I broke into a blood bank or something, I just turned on the air conditioner. It’s no big deal’ he tells her it is, asks how many hours she left it running because she’s not running out getting more fuel, they are, and she zones out because he’s ‘lecturing’ her. He tells her they’ve all decided they shouldn’t run the air at night and that they’re all not doing it to conserve energy and she’s shocked because they never brought it up and ignored that she was turning it on.... these two probably annoyed me the most. She’s such a princess these three guys are going without and working way harder than they need to, just so she can live like life is normal. Resources run out, especially fuel, and she’s eating away at it without a care in the world.
- then we meet new characters and they’re just as bad. He ran around collecting movie memorabilia, and she stockpiled things she “felt were extremely important-clothes, make-up and accessories” I KID YOU NOT. This lady things clothes, make up and fucking accessories are important in a fucking apocalypse. KILL MEEEEEE. She then goes on to give Heroine a MAKEOVER, after she’s been told her man kidnapped her and her people will be worried. She uses her kid to manipulate Heroine into staying for an hour so she can play barbie. Never mind how impractical she dresses her, but fuck me, it’s just so dumb.
- Then to top it off, new girl is (spoiler for trigger warning) and after finding her, hero carts her off to the car swiftly and they have sex because she just looks so sexy and they can’t keep their hands off each other. He says she smells so good and she says she shouldn’t because she was locked in a pet cage that was covered in piss and shit, and that he’s lucky, “bad smells seem to bounce off me”.
- also, with Swastika‘a tattoo. It’s heavily implied that that’s the reason they know he was in jail? Like people outside of jail can’t have nazi symbols on their body? “What are you? Prison bait” ... Adam was right. There was a small swastika tattooed on the side of the guy’s neck. She’s watched a TV documentary once on prisons and remembered a swastika on the neck signified membership in an Aryan gang. You had to belong to a gang in prison. If not, you’d be killed.” (I shit you not, she thought that, and I’m still dying laughing thinking about it) also like, how is an Armenian (Biologist) and a Mexican (hero) so fucking calm around a guy with a SWASTIKA on his neck? Genuinely think that shouldn’t have been included AT ALL. Maybe a teardrop tattoo (which would make more sense since he was in for murder) or something, but the swastika has no other point besides them claiming it meant he went to prison. No one was like WOAH A NAZI LETS NOT GO NEAR HIM. They actually got pretty chill with him easily and it was super uncomfortable. I’m still confused by that choice & also just seems kinda uneducated to think only a prisoner could be part of the Aryan gang & that it was basically just a prison thing. And even if it was, they ain’t the only gang in prison, and that would be the one he chose... ew.
Overall, I was annoyed by WAY too many things to enjoy this. All those points weren’t even all the things I hated. Yes, there was more. I don’t even care about book two, and I have it because it was free. The lead up was dumb & swastika was dumb too. ‘Me need woman. Must go alone for best chance to steal woman from other man’. Ugh. WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLES BRAINSSSSSS.
I hated the heroine, and I hated the hero. She was dumb as FUCK, and he was a complete wanker. Examples as to why:
- when they finally come across survivors, there’s a guy with a SWASTIKA on his neck, and a biologist and they’re living it up in a in a bands tour bus. They lure her in there to see how cool it is (after swastika hits on her) and they put on the movie Die Hard. THAT is what makes her demand they travel with them. Not that they have a solar powered bus with heaps of stuff, or anything useful. No, that they have access to watch her favourite fucking movie.
- Biologist has lost his kids and wife, and she’s told about it a page before, then when she’s with him next she’s thinking about how he never smiles and that he looks ‘emotionless’ and later on gets all giddy that she made him smile. He’s depressed, leave him the fuck alone.
- Hero has this ‘kink’ where he basically wants to own her and call ALL the shots in their relationship ship. He also has a kink where he likes to watch other men fuck his> lady and basically gets off on driving the scene. Swastika brings it up she’s the only lady they know is alive and that he wants a piece of her. Hero is against it all until Swastika mentions he will gladly have a threesome with them, be the third and do whatever Hero says & that he’s done it before. Hero is salivating and agrees, as long as Heroine accepts. Hero then pushes them together so she can say yes, then when she finds out and is mad he basically dealt her out, he says to her that Swastika did the right thing by coming to him and asking to make sure he wasn’t stepping on his toes. He continually says their sex stuff is for HER pleasure, while playing out HIS fantasies and not bothering to ask what she’s into...
- she has 30 MINUTE SHOWERS. When Biologist brings it up she basically has a MELTDOWN, claiming she HAS to have showers that long because she’s a female and it’s necessary That they’re that long because she has SO MUCH to do in the shower, like wash and condition her hair, and shave her legs, because she’s a female. Like, is that 100% necessary for survival? And the Dicks that want in her holes both pipe up like ‘she can have my time’ and it don’t mind’, instead of going oh shit probably could use that power for more useful things. For, shave your legs before and rinse them off in the shower. In NO WORLD, is it necessary. You’re wasting precious water for staters. It’s not even the only stupid thing she wastes. Later on Biology comes back and says she’s sneaking outside to turn the generator on every night so she can turn on the air conditioning. He’s all worried about fuel consumption, and she literally got whiney that he was grilling her about why it was going down. She has a tantrum, questions why he’s checking the fuel levels, tries to gaslight him being all like ‘what’s this got to do with me’, tries to pin it on the other guys before admiting, he’s, it was her and that he should handcuff her and take her to jail (sarcastically). He asks why she would do it, and she’s like ‘God, you make it sound like I broke into a blood bank or something, I just turned on the air conditioner. It’s no big deal’ he tells her it is, asks how many hours she left it running because she’s not running out getting more fuel, they are, and she zones out because he’s ‘lecturing’ her. He tells her they’ve all decided they shouldn’t run the air at night and that they’re all not doing it to conserve energy and she’s shocked because they never brought it up and ignored that she was turning it on.... these two probably annoyed me the most. She’s such a princess these three guys are going without and working way harder than they need to, just so she can live like life is normal. Resources run out, especially fuel, and she’s eating away at it without a care in the world.
- then we meet new characters and they’re just as bad. He ran around collecting movie memorabilia, and she stockpiled things she “felt were extremely important-clothes, make-up and accessories” I KID YOU NOT. This lady things clothes, make up and fucking accessories are important in a fucking apocalypse. KILL MEEEEEE. She then goes on to give Heroine a MAKEOVER, after she’s been told her man kidnapped her and her people will be worried. She uses her kid to manipulate Heroine into staying for an hour so she can play barbie. Never mind how impractical she dresses her, but fuck me, it’s just so dumb.
- Then to top it off, new girl is (spoiler for trigger warning)
Spoiler
gang raped- also, with Swastika‘a tattoo. It’s heavily implied that that’s the reason they know he was in jail? Like people outside of jail can’t have nazi symbols on their body? “What are you? Prison bait” ... Adam was right. There was a small swastika tattooed on the side of the guy’s neck. She’s watched a TV documentary once on prisons and remembered a swastika on the neck signified membership in an Aryan gang. You had to belong to a gang in prison. If not, you’d be killed.” (I shit you not, she thought that, and I’m still dying laughing thinking about it) also like, how is an Armenian (Biologist) and a Mexican (hero) so fucking calm around a guy with a SWASTIKA on his neck? Genuinely think that shouldn’t have been included AT ALL. Maybe a teardrop tattoo (which would make more sense since he was in for murder) or something, but the swastika has no other point besides them claiming it meant he went to prison. No one was like WOAH A NAZI LETS NOT GO NEAR HIM. They actually got pretty chill with him easily and it was super uncomfortable. I’m still confused by that choice & also just seems kinda uneducated to think only a prisoner could be part of the Aryan gang & that it was basically just a prison thing. And even if it was, they ain’t the only gang in prison, and that would be the one he chose... ew.
Overall, I was annoyed by WAY too many things to enjoy this. All those points weren’t even all the things I hated. Yes, there was more. I don’t even care about book two, and I have it because it was free. The lead up was dumb & swastika was dumb too. ‘Me need woman. Must go alone for best chance to steal woman from other man’. Ugh. WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLES BRAINSSSSSS.
sadie_rae's review against another edition
4.0
I never would have found this book except one of my gr friends had marked it as reading the cover and title were interesting so I took a look at the synopsis and thought 'why not?'. Lucky me I was not disappointed. While I'll admit I may have rolled my eyes a time or two overall I though this was a great book, and keeping in mind that I haven't read many apocalyptic type books this so far is my favorite. The ending is nice and leads into what will hopefully be a opening for the next book which I'm kinda itching to get my hands on, sadly I will have to wait for the author to write it :(
4-4.5 Stars
4-4.5 Stars
dani9's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.75
Always like finding a dystopian series. Since covid I think there's an added layer of believability in how society falls apart when people find themselves in an unprecedented situation.
Well built world, liked both the main characters. Looking forward to trevors story next
My first book by this author, will definitely complete the series
Well built world, liked both the main characters. Looking forward to trevors story next
My first book by this author, will definitely complete the series
booklvrkat's review against another edition
I can't rate this story. I stopped. It read so slow for me. 50% and I stopped. SMH. And this is one of my favorite genres.
reading_rainy's review against another edition
3.0
2.5 rounded up
This read like a B movie. It was enjoyable while reading it, but not memorable after. Rachel is immature and annoying, Adam is a jerk and know it all. This book was missing heart.
This read like a B movie. It was enjoyable while reading it, but not memorable after. Rachel is immature and annoying, Adam is a jerk and know it all. This book was missing heart.
bookwormlala's review against another edition
1.0
Won't read the second
Rachel is an insecure, immature mess. But all of her fears and insecurities melted away in 24 hours under Adam. She's tstl complaining about how she needs 30 minute showers to wash her hair and shave her legs and running the generator all night for air conditioning without thought to their limited resources. Give me a break. Adam is a bit of a jerk, and I hated how he bargained and bartered a threesome with Travis like Rachel was a peice of property without talking to her first. I hate the thought of a ménage with the hero from another story. I'm good with ménage in books, but I don't like how it was set up in this book. Especially since she had never even had backdoor before they were with her at the same time. They didn't even work her up to it. To me it was all about them, not her.Plus the swastika tattoos were never addressed.
Rachel is an insecure, immature mess. But all of her fears and insecurities melted away in 24 hours under Adam. She's tstl complaining about how she needs 30 minute showers to wash her hair and shave her legs and running the generator all night for air conditioning without thought to their limited resources. Give me a break. Adam is a bit of a jerk, and I hated how he bargained and bartered a threesome with Travis like Rachel was a peice of property without talking to her first. I hate the thought of a ménage with the hero from another story. I'm good with ménage in books, but I don't like how it was set up in this book. Especially since she had never even had backdoor before they were with her at the same time. They didn't even work her up to it. To me it was all about them, not her.Plus the swastika tattoos were never addressed.
beckiebookworm1974's review against another edition
3.0
This was ok there were some slight things that irked me and I did find the heroine quite immature and at times a bit oblivious. It’s a post-apocalyptic age-gap romance and is actually well written it’s very instalove in nature and we do have some slight darkness in regards to secondary characters. Nineteen soon to be twenty Rachel Donnelly is a history major when the virus hit she came home to be with her family now alone and scared she decides to set out of San Diego where the bodies of the dead are piling up. Adam Sanchez is a marine sniper he’s older than Rachel thirty-two I think. When all on his base succumbed to illness and died he knew it was time to get out of the city. These two meet on the road and their initial suspicion gives way to relief that they’ve found each another live human, especially after all of the death.
So Rachel and Adam equal road trip these two are very different Adam is super capable Rachel not so much she also has a million insecurities and hang-ups but the one thing they do have in common is they both want to bang each other’s bones though Adam initially vows to steer clear thinking Rachel to young to handle his kinks.
So yeh I found Rachel super annoying she does whine a lot and she’s definitely not as capable as Adam but she fell in shit and came up smelling of roses when she found him on the road as Rachel definitely wouldn’t have even lasted five minutes on her own I mean the girl can’t even handle a gun without freaking. There was so much about Rachel that irritated me from her selfishness with the water and the air conditioner and her weird preoccupation with libraries and information instead of survival skills and everyone with one exception seems to baby her hell it’s obvious why she gets away with this crap.
There was also a couple of other things that irritated me so they meet two other males on the road and they team up Christian is grieving his family and then we have ex-con Trevor who also instantly wants to bone Rachel. This is also where I got annoyed Adam doesn’t trust Trevor but within a very space short of time he’s agreeing to maybe have Trevor come in as a third with Rachel it’s one of his kinks to call all the shots and have another male pleasure his woman. Now I have nothing against ménage this wasn’t my problem it was the context and the fact Rachel was a freaking virgin a few days prior and he hardly knows Trevor to trust him this much with his woman and to then agree to this and to also have the conversation initially without even discussing it with his girl It also seemed really random and a bit risky. I mean Trevor was ok but Adam didn’t know him well enough for any sort of trust on his part and Rachel is not a toy. Then there’s that fact that they literally advertise their location with those radio broadcasts for other survivors it just seemed stupid and plain dangerous.
There was also some darkness in regards to secondary characters and breadcrumbs where Trevor will get his story next. It may not seem like it but I did enjoy this to a point it just also equally irritated me. I am planning on picking up book two as I want to know more about Trevor overall for me this had equal positives and negatives.
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