Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming

The constant whining of a few of them made me wish for their demise. Second, the characters were unrelatable to the point of being unrealistic. It was ridiculous, and would be laughable if I didn't know she was serious. In this day and age, I don't think many people care one way or another about character gender/orientation, but I found that the way author placed the characters and brought up these topics pulled focus from the novel because it was so obvious. This a noble endeavor that can be pulled off - when all of the characters aren't dumped into one novel in what feels like a 'let's put everyone into these pages and be sure to put in into the story somehow' plan. It seemed like there was secondary agenda to represent a bunch of underrepresented groups.

As we marched on through the characters, I felt like the author had a checklist to cover every single known group, and I began checking it off in my head when I realized what was happening. She did an information dump in one section. First, what bothered me throughout the book was the seeming need to overexplain things dealing with gender identity, etc. I have read all of Fleming's books set in this world. But in an existence where fences offer dubious safety and zombies certain danger, people may save you in more ways than one. Unfortunately, the new world doesn’t always mean leaving old problems behind, and as the West Coast succumbs to the virus, the survivors face more than the undead - they face themselves. With his food and water near gone and death closer than ever, a chance encounter may lead to finding his friends - if he can first find his courage. Doable, maybe, if he could bring himself to leave his apartment. Maybe his rules weren’t meant to be broken, but if he can’t change his tune, he risks losing the one thing he has left - his daughter.Ĭraig Matthews has a mission: get to Oregon. The world is finished, the future is uncertain, and survival means living in the last place he’d planned to be. But when his life is overturned in the space of minutes, his plans die along with everything else. Rule number one? Don’t deviate from the plan. It’s clear the party’s over, however, now Rose has more problems - a missing husband, an overbearing houseguest, and keeping her family alive. She wanted to get drunk and sing karaoke, not murder her undead neighbors. With a marriage going down the tubes and a dreaded anniversary party on the horizon, the last thing she needs is the zombie apocalypse. In the zombie apocalypse, your worst enemy may be yourself.

Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming