The Ending Series: The Complete Series
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The virus spread. Billions died. The Ending began. We may have survived the apocalypse, but the virus changed us. When people started getting sick, "they" thought it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family...they're all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them-with the rest of the world-but I didn't. I thought witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the craziest thing I'd ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani O'Connor, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending. The Virus changed everything. The world I knew is gone, and life is backwards. We've all had to start over. I've been stripped of my home, my dreams...all that is me. I'm someone else now-broken and changed. Other survivors' memories and emotions haunt me. They invade my mind until I can no longer separate them from my own. I won't let them consume me. I can't. My name is Zoe Cartwright, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending. We've been inseparable for most of our lives, and now our friendship is all we have left. The aftermath of the Virus has stranded us on opposite sides of the United States. Trusting strangers, making sacrifices, killing-we'll do anything to reach one another. Fear and pain may be unavoidable, but we're strong...we're survivors. But to continue surviving in this unfamiliar world plagued by Crazies and strange new abilities, we have to adapt. We have to evolve. And more than anything, we have to find each other.
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After the Ending surprised me. I started this book around midnight and for some reason, I kept going until 5am. It wasn't the writing, that was okay. It wasn't the way the book alternated between two best friends, I've seen books done like this before. But, overall, I guess it just had a very intriguing world that sucked me in and kept me wanting to find out what happened next.
After the Ending is a post-apocalyptic book that happens after a Virus wipes out most of the population of North America (and possibly the rest of the world). Two friends, Dani and Zoe, somehow survive and against all odds, decide to meet in the wilds of Colorado. Each one has to trek inwards from opposite sides of the continent. Along the way, they find allies and foes, and uncover what it means to survive.
I love post-apocalptic work. This book has a unique setting and premise that keeps you wondering what next. What I didn't like was the fact that apparently the Internet still works and electricity is spotty. I know, I'm not a electrician or whatnot, but it just seemed odd to me that the Internet and pockets of electricity could go maintained without daily supervision. Then again, maybe it can?
Bottom Line: If you want a good book to keep you up during the night, then give this one a shot. A good cliff-hanger ending ensures that the next volume, due out later 2013, will keep up the pace.
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4 primary books5 released booksThe Ending is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Lindsey Fairleigh and Lindsey Pogue.
