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The Never-Ending End of the World
by Ann Christy
Thank you to Netgalley, Campfire Publishing and of course Ann Christy for allowing me the opportunity to receive a free eARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This review will be crossposted to Goodreads and will remain up indefinitely.
3.5/5: First off - what a unique and interesting premise! I read a lot of dystopian, post-apocalyptic books and haven't really stumbled upon anything like this. I loved Station Eleven and the comparison in the description is what drew me at first. I really think a lot of creativity and late night thinking went into the formation of such a unique and well thought out world, where any questions I had about the loopers/fragments was answered by the end.
I genuinely would have read a duology/trilogy of this world and I think I maybe would have enjoyed it more that way. I found that what brought it down to a 3.5/5 stars for me is simply that I felt jarred by the large timeskips and where the time taken to describe what was going on was used. With how interesting the topic of the Looping is, I think a duology would have been perfect and would have allowed the really awesome world to shine a bit more, and given the characters some more development so I would feel some more attachment to what happens to them. As it stands, I just wasn't really attached to anyone and felt no stake in their survival game...
Overall, I did enjoy the book and it kept me reading, but I wish we had a little bit more either in the form of just more pages in this book to flesh out some of the time skips, or 2 shorter 300-ish page books to make it a series.
3.5/5: First off - what a unique and interesting premise! I read a lot of dystopian, post-apocalyptic books and haven't really stumbled upon anything like this. I loved Station Eleven and the comparison in the description is what drew me at first. I really think a lot of creativity and late night thinking went into the formation of such a unique and well thought out world, where any questions I had about the loopers/fragments was answered by the end.
I genuinely would have read a duology/trilogy of this world and I think I maybe would have enjoyed it more that way. I found that what brought it down to a 3.5/5 stars for me is simply that I felt jarred by the large timeskips and where the time taken to describe what was going on was used. With how interesting the topic of the Looping is, I think a duology would have been perfect and would have allowed the really awesome world to shine a bit more, and given the characters some more development so I would feel some more attachment to what happens to them. As it stands, I just wasn't really attached to anyone and felt no stake in their survival game...
Overall, I did enjoy the book and it kept me reading, but I wish we had a little bit more either in the form of just more pages in this book to flesh out some of the time skips, or 2 shorter 300-ish page books to make it a series.