My Review
This was a book that Amazon presented to me and it sounded okay. Well, it was more than okay, it was terrific.
A comet is heading for earth and people were chosen to go to the bunker. Firstly they were put through a rigorous training program before being put to sleep for two hundred years. The idea being that the human race could start again,
I liked our eighteen year old heroine, Joanna. We saw in the story through one point of view, which I prefer. She’s a fighter and holds it together as everything around her crumbles.
Things don’t go smoothly, as is always the case. Outsiders want in – wouldn’t you? Things become desperate as the end of humanity comes ever closer.
On the day they enter the bunker for real, the comet is visible in the sky. The thought of that, and vision it portrayed was terrifying. The story had me gripped – and I kept looking towards the sky! Society had practically broken down, as Joanna and her cohorts were put into their deep sleep. The whole thing was chilling as my imagination went into overdrive. I tried not to think about those last minutes.
The second part of the story had Joanna waking up in the future with the tale being told in a mixture of before and after. Again things don’t go exactly to plan in the exciting climax.
It’s an incredible story and I highly recommend it,
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Book Blurb and Link
When a killer comet hurtles for the earth, 18-year-old Joanna Murphy is selected to wait out the apocalypse in an underground bunker. She enters cryosleep with her close-knit team, preparing to resettle the planet after the atmosphere clears in two hundred years.
Joanna is the only one who wakes up.
Faced with a bunker full of bones and a blocked exit, Joanna must claw her way to the surface, figure out what happened to her team, and try not to panic—or die. That’s going to be tricky if she’s the only person left in the world.
Karen J. Mossman - World of Stories 