After the Ending

by Lindsey Fairleigh and Lindsey Pogue

• ISBN10: 0988715414
• ISBN13: 9780988715417
• Publish Date: 1 February 2013
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: L2 Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Language: English

Reviews

[Hixxup]

Got this book free on Amazon. Such gems can be found on Amazon. Such as this one. This is a book where a virus literally kills off majority of the human population. Think ‘The Walking dead’ without zombies. What would be zombies in this book are called crazies, the reason they’re called crazies is because survivors of the virus have changed. Every single person. Some go crazy in some sort of way, and others have some kind of special ability.

So this book is in the point of view between two people Dani and her best friend Zoe. When the virus strikes they are across the country from each other. Zoe’s brother Jason tells Zoe to head for Colorado Springs, and he’ll get Dani and do the same.

So going through the book, you’ll see what is happening to each girl and the people they are with or have met.

The minute I picked up this book, I didn’t want to put it down. But it’s a big book, and well worth the length. Because there is so much information in it, but not too much where it’s fillers or dead space. It’s literally something pertinent to the story the whole way through.

My final thought on this book besides the fact that it’s super amazing is.... do not make this book into a movie or a tv series. As any loss of any information from this book would be tragic.

[Nessa Luna]

DNF at 40-ish%. I don't know it just couldn't grasp me. I was in a bit of a reading slump though, but I just haven't felt like picking it up for over a week, so I guess I should just not finish it at all. Will spend my time reading books that interest me more.

I had read in someone else's review that more characters would have gotten special X-men like powers further into the book, and that would have interested me, but I guess that would have been about it.

I felt no connection to the characters, except maybe Dani's dog; I was just really annoyed by most of the characters, except for Chris maybe.

So yeah I guess I give it 1,5 star; but to be generous I have rounded it upwards instead of downwards.

[Angie]

It's flu season, but it's no ordinary flu. In After the Ending, billions of people contracted a new strain of H1N1, and simply dropped dead right before Christmas. Zoe and Dani are two of very few survivors. Zoe's brother, Jason, is in the Air Force and told her to head toward the base, while he goes to find Dani who had been sick but was one of the lucky ones. Now, they're all headed toward Colorado, but it's slow going without proper transportation and with "crazies" roaming around trying to kill them.

I quite enjoyed After the Ending. There's something about apocalypses brought on by disease that I can't get enough of. In this case, it's just a horrible flu. Or is it? No one's really sure if this was just a case of the virus evolving or if someone created it and let it out. All they do know is that the survivors are developing abilities or losing their minds. Zoe can sense people's emotions and see their memories, while Dani is telepathic. They also run into people who have manipulative powers and are quite dangerous. I actually really loved Dani's ability, since she's kind of a demented Disney princess, since it also works on animals. She's able to call hoards of critters to her to do her bidding. Bad ass.

After the Ending is kind of slow and repetitive in places. It covers about four months of traveling. Zoe's group managed to get some cars started and siphoned fuel, while Dani and Company are on horse back. Needless to say, it's slow going for both groups. I was a bit annoyed that Dani and Zoe get caught in the same psychotic romance, love triangle kind of thing. There's a hot guy in each of their groups, and of course there's a woman who's been with the group longer who apparently has dibs on them. Then said women go totally crazy and try to kill Dani and Zoe for trying to steal their man. I don't have a problem with this plot thread on its own, but I didn't like how it was a main source of conflict for both main characters. It was like I was reading the same thing twice.

In the end, I enjoyed After the Ending. It ends on a bit of a weird cliffhanger, so I'm curious to see where that goes. But most importantly I want to know more about this virus! It was seeming more and more likely that it was intentional, due to all of the amazing abilities that are cropping up, and I want to know who and why!

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