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A review by trisha_thomas
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker
3.0
"Life screams, and we scream back at it. After a bit of time we learn to be quiet; we learn to muffle it.”
I bought this for the title - honestly, it's a great title. And I'm an "end of the world" story junky - kind of. I mean, I love me a good zombie book and I felt like this might be the story of Runner 5 or something a long those lines.
Instead, this was a wonderful booked wrapped in my own worst nightmare. It's a story of a dad of 2 - a newborn and a little girl around 2 - and his wife and they are in a emergency situation. With little warning and almost no prep time, the world is completely littered and destroyed by meteors flying out of the sky and literally setting the world on fire. Ed, one of the few lucky ones, manages to shove his family into a storm shelter under their house and survive. But the world isn't the same and Ed needs to figure out his new place in this one.
The story was slow moving at first. The horror of it all going down and then the aftermath took some time but the story really got moving once they got moving. I loved when he finally got to running. I liked the vague ending - leaving you needing to make some decisions on your own. I'd definitely read more from this author!
I bought this for the title - honestly, it's a great title. And I'm an "end of the world" story junky - kind of. I mean, I love me a good zombie book and I felt like this might be the story of Runner 5 or something a long those lines.
Instead, this was a wonderful booked wrapped in my own worst nightmare. It's a story of a dad of 2 - a newborn and a little girl around 2 - and his wife and they are in a emergency situation. With little warning and almost no prep time, the world is completely littered and destroyed by meteors flying out of the sky and literally setting the world on fire. Ed, one of the few lucky ones, manages to shove his family into a storm shelter under their house and survive. But the world isn't the same and Ed needs to figure out his new place in this one.
The story was slow moving at first. The horror of it all going down and then the aftermath took some time but the story really got moving once they got moving. I loved when he finally got to running. I liked the vague ending - leaving you needing to make some decisions on your own. I'd definitely read more from this author!