The End of the World Running Club: The ultimate race against time post-apocalyptic thriller

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Between the danger and fatigued described by the author by the runners themselves, I felt so much during this read.

The End of the World Survivors Club is another exceptional read from Adrian J Walker – one that will have you laughing one moment, crying the next and holding your breath through each unpredictable chapter. You’ll spend time trapped in a cellar gasping for air and water and smelling the stink of your own body. Ed and his crew encounter several other survivors, both friends and foes, as they traverse the country. This book is probably 75% apocalyptic story, and 25% running tale, but there is endurance and perseverance inherent in every move. One morning after a bit too much to drink, the apocalypse starts to rain down, and he is forced to rise to the occasion.Only to realize as you approach the end that his boring, annoying dribble of a story is all you're going to get after the amazing start. Saying that – there is a sequel and frankly, I’m not 100% I can bring myself to read it, should it become available on Kindle here in Canada.

The whole beginning was absolutely wonderful as the asteroids occurred and then the family was trapped in the cellar. I don't want to spoil it, but this is a really emotionally intelligent book, full of dark humour, excellent plot twists and a certain kind of empathy and sweetness. We’re able to compare Ed and Beth’s stories, to see the contrasts and similarities in their struggles, to watch them both suffer and evolve.

Der Schreibstil war in Ordnung, aber mir fehlte die Spannung und ich hatte Probleme, mich in den Protagonisten hineinzuversetzen. I have to admit that some of this story seemed far fetched, but I enjoyed going along with Edgar as he raced to get to his family. I don't really know what to believe happened at the end and I wasn't in the mood for that much literary ambiguity at the end of the book. He isn't very likeable, and I struggled with his role as the hero of the story when he seemed anything but heroic. I'm not saying it's impossible, but there were quite a number of survivors (Gloria and Jenny Rae, for two) that couldn't remember the word "asteroids," were admittedly pretty uneducated and operating at a more primeval and ruthless level of being, yet were not only surviving, but were surviving rather successfully and suspiciously intelligently!

Grabbing the only shelter he could think of he secreted his family (he, wife and their two children) away into their cellar while asteroids worked their horrors. When the sky begins to fall and he finds himself alone, his best hope is to run – or risk losing what he loves forever. After being rescued by the military, Ed's perspective still hasn't changed much when he meets a few men at the barracks and goes on gathering missions with them, once again ignoring his family and their needs, relegating parental duties to his long suffering wife. It literally took the world ENDING to get him to think about becoming the husband and father is family deserve and desire, and I found this pretty unforgivable. If you like to root for your hero, then again you might find it a little challenging, though there are plenty of other more heroic characters to cheer for.The thing I enjoyed most about this novel (and why I picked it up in the first place) is Ed's thoughts on running.

Im zerstörten Edinburgh gab es keinen Strom mehr, die meisten Bewohner waren von der unvorstellbaren Hitzewelle getötet worden, Überlebende flüchteten aus der Stadt. Much more than a book about the end of the world, this is a story about an inadequate husband and father who is trying to improve himself.Selbst Zahlen der Toten und Überlebenden könnten das Ausmaß dieser Katastrophe nicht begreifbar machen. Their role was always to protect and provide, but these days most women are capable of protecting and providing for themselves and their kids. You’ll want to meet Jesus, you’ll want to holler at the rising sun, and you may highlight a ton of passages on your kindle, like I did. I knew it wasn’t a book based around a Covid-19 type virus, so I had faith going in that this would be an emotionally charged, survive at all costs books.