A review by bookcheshirecat
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

“I had always known grief was a type of loneliness, but when I went to college, I learned loneliness was a type of grief.” 

➽ If Tomorrow Doesn't Come is an emotional story about Avery, who's suffering from undiagnosed depression. She's not dealing well with college and one morning she decides to end her life. It doesn't end up happening, as an asteroid is headed for Earth and the world only has nine days left before it hits. With so little time left, Avery's going back home to her parents and spending time with her secret crush and best friend Cass. This was definitely a hard-hitting story at times, as it deals with Avery's mental health and fear of coming out to her parents, who aren't the most queer-friendly. Avery has a lot of things she never talked about, but the time to deal with them is running out. We also see glimpses of how the world descends into chaos as everyone is scrambling to go back home and prepare for the end of the world. I wish we'd seen more of the impact the asteroid and impending doom caused in the world. We only get snippets and it was disappointing that the premise wasn't used more.
The ending is ambiguous, which I expected. I was still a bit sad that we didn't even get a hint of  what happened to the world and is it's truly over for everyone.
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