Until We End

I truly hoped I would like this, but it didn't happen. I immensely enjoy post-apocalyptic scenarios, but it would be nice if the plots of these books wouldn't be regurgitations of the same elements over and over again. I'm getting really tired of the “saving the younger sibling” device. Could it be someone else for a change? Like the mother or the father, the twin sibling, the best friend, the boyfriend, the girlfriend, the favorite maths teacher etc.? Maybe then I would stop having the feeling that I'm reading the same book over and over again.

Another overused trope in this type of books is making the government/the army the main enemy, even though the world is falling apart for completely different reasons. Why does it always have to be this evil entity doing random things of cruelty for no reason whatsoever?

In this instance, most of the world's population has been wiped out by a mega-deadly virus and yet they can afford to go on and shoot people just because they refuse to leave their homes and go to shelters. Apparently the end of the world is the perfect time for the military personnel to start despising their fellow humans and calling them rats. Why on earth would they want to do that? Martial law, martial law, but when human beings are a such a rare sighting, why would they to contribute to the extinction of the human race? What is the point of being a ruler if you have no one to rule over?

Also, are we really supposed to believe that they concocted an extremely powerful virus, for biological warfare, in Savannah, Georgia of all places? And that no one knows how this virus got out of the lab. It seems there was vaccine too, but no word gets out about it either because it was all quickly wasted on a few billionaires? Really?

What got on my nerves the most was the dad. He didn't even bother to tell his kids what was going on. He just thought that if he disappeared, they will be safe. No letter, no word about why they should hide from the military or why he has to go away. Then we find out he was the doctor that created the virus(tun-tun-tun-tun) but he didn't think it was a good idea to share this with anyone, so they could use his knowledge to, you know, save the planet. Then, when his son ended up with him in the camp he didn't bother to find a way to send a note to his daughter and tell her to stop running around risking her life to save her brother because he is safe and sound. Oh, the amount of plot-holes in this books...

Nothing good about the the characters either, they are all utterly unrealistic and unlikable. The girl drools over a hunky redneck army deserter just after her brother has been kidnapped and taken to who-knows-where. The deserter guy, Brooks, becomes loyal to her, a girl he just met, risks his life for her repeatedly just because and then they fall in love in a matter of days.wave of nausea Also, his comrades are these “outstanding” guys that became deserters because they have principles and they didn't want to harm innocent people, yet they torture Briggs then plan tie up and torture a sixteen year old girl to get her to spill where she keeps all her food. Doesn't matter if she starves to death after they steal her supply, that is if they don't kill her first. How is that any better that shooting people?

The only pro of this book, is that it's action packed and a quick read.