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A review by strangecandy
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker
5.0
This is the post-apocalyptic tale takes place in Scotland and tells the story of man named Edgar Hill who has become complacent with his job, his children, his lifestyle and life in general. He drinks, eat things that are bad for his health and looks scornfully at those who watch what they eat, are engaged with their families and run for fitness which makes the title all more ironic. What happens is that hundreds if not thousands of meteors hit earth with no warning from the government. Everything is destroyed and he and his family only survive due to the fact that there small home has a cellar which the larger homes across the street do not. They barely have enough time to through down what canned food they have in the house and a case of bottled water he manages to loot from a nearby corner store, diapers for the baby and his daughters stuffed rabbits.
What follows is many days of rationing food, breaking open pipes and hoping there is enough water to last them a few more days when they are finally rescued by the remnants of the army that were in the area. They are brought to a holding facility where they spend several weeks trying to recover but soon they realize that they are running out of food and the men go into the cities to salvage what they can to survive.
While on a trek to the city they return to find out that helicopters from the coast have come and picked up all of their families and brought them to the coast where there are ships waiting to take them to less devastated areas. When they realize that they only have 3 weeks to cover 500 miles and the only way they can do that is to run all of the way there. They of course have many obstacles both physically and mentally to overcome to reach their goal.
I found the book fascinating, engaging and even though this feels like a stand alone book I was left wondering about Edgar Hill and where the path took him next.
What follows is many days of rationing food, breaking open pipes and hoping there is enough water to last them a few more days when they are finally rescued by the remnants of the army that were in the area. They are brought to a holding facility where they spend several weeks trying to recover but soon they realize that they are running out of food and the men go into the cities to salvage what they can to survive.
While on a trek to the city they return to find out that helicopters from the coast have come and picked up all of their families and brought them to the coast where there are ships waiting to take them to less devastated areas. When they realize that they only have 3 weeks to cover 500 miles and the only way they can do that is to run all of the way there. They of course have many obstacles both physically and mentally to overcome to reach their goal.
I found the book fascinating, engaging and even though this feels like a stand alone book I was left wondering about Edgar Hill and where the path took him next.