Waiting On Wednesday #44!!

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine  that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!


What book am I totally-dying-to-get-my-hands-on this week? In The End by Demitria Lunetta!!

Goodreads Summary:


"The thrilling conclusion to In the After, the survival story of Amy and Baby, set in a near future where Earth has been overrun by vicious, predatory creatures.

It’s been three months since Amy escaped New Hope, and she’s been surviving on her own, like she did in the After. Until one day, her former fellow Guardian’s voice rings out in her earpiece. And in a desperate tone, Kay utters the four words Amy had hoped she would never hear: Dr. Reynolds has Baby.

Now it’s a race against time, for Baby is in imminent danger, her life threatened by the malevolent doctor who had helped start the end of the world. In order to save Baby, Amy must make her way to Fort Black, a prison-turned-survivor-colony, where she will need to find Ken, Kay’s brother. He alone holds the key to Baby’s survival.

One small slip-up on this quest could spark a downward spiral that would not only cost Baby and Amy their lives, but threaten the very survival of the people in the After."
 




Why am I eagerly awaiting In The End? Well, it is the very much awaited sequel of one of my favourite debuts from last year, In The After. It is a dystopian, it is the final book and the first book totally manage to shock me and creep me out, so I'm dying to see how the author wraps up everything, and what other surprises she might have in store for us!


What are you all (im)patiently awaiting this week?

Mark This Book Monday: In The After by Demitria Lunetta!!

And here's the second review of the day! Written while watching Warm Bodies (again) and having some nice chai! Ah, the joys of being in India on vacation!

So for the second Mark This Book Monday I want to introduce you guys to another dystopian story that is NOT just another dystopian story!

In The After by Demitria Lunetta.

I had high expectations for this book and it really did deliver!

I was so engrossed reading the final pages of it that even the bf commented on how "intensely" I was reading. I'm even tempted to give 4 and a half stars!

The book is divided into three parts, with the first part being all about introducing us to Amy and to the world where she lives, the After.

The After is a postapocaliptic world of sorts, one were They started eating humans and the world as we knew it, the Before, collapsed.

Amy is home when They arrived, so she managed to survive hunkered at home, due to having a set of unusual parents with unusual house set ups who managed to provide her with self-sustaining energy and a barrier of protection. She learns to survive by avoiding daylight, being silent and in the process learns a few things about Them, like the fact that night time is when it's safer to roam, and that they have poor eyesight, so if you stay still and quiet you might survive.

The first part of the book deals with Amy surviving in the After with Baby, a toddler she found one night during a provisions run to a supermarket. Both of them survive pretty well for three years, keeping each other company and keeping each other sane. Then things start changing and Amy and Baby end up in New Hope.

That's when part two starts, New Hope is a place where humans are safe from Them, so there's no need for silence and you don't have to fear the daylight. The best part of this is that the book has a double narrative, both on Amy's POV, but one is the past and the other is the present. You keep on learning more about New Hope and all the lights and shadows of the place.

The second and third parts are equally as disquieting and uncomfortable as the first part, when you were trying to survive a world full of Them. On the second part Amy has to adapt to a world where They aren't present all the time, and the focus is on ensuring the human race goes on. And there are plenty of secrets on New Hope and plenty of darkness without Them, except that, are humans really safe from Them?

A great story, with quite a few twists turned into it that will leave you thinking about it for quite a while! I can't wait for the next one and see what the author has in store for us!