After the End (After the End, #1)
Amy Plum
She’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future.World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.
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Listened to the audiobook, and enjoyed both narrators. Took me a little while to warm up to the male narrator (Graham Hamilton) as I found some of his narrative passages to be rather monotonous.
Story overall is good. I sometimes wanted to push through a bit more--it wasn't slow exactly but it sounded more like an action movie than a novel.
I also think there were a lot of super convenient people/actions/plot points that just happened at the right moment or were remembered at the exact correct time. I would have liked the characters to struggle more and for Juneau to be a bit less totally-awesome-at-everything.
I liked this book and the characters for the most part, may continue with the series but it's far from my new favorite book. Actually think I may easily forget about this one with time, we shall see.
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