The Never-Ending End of the World

I loved the story and cried while reading the epilogue. This story has some of the most touching character interactions I've read in a long time. I genuinely fell in love with these characters and I can't wait to buy this book so I can add it to my bookshelf and read it again and again. It's been a while since I wished I had never read a book so I could have the experience of reading it again for the first time and that's what I felt when I read this.

The story follows Coco after something causes time to freeze and she is suddenly alone in the world at 12 years old. Loopers can become dangerous if their loops are broken and most of the characters have a heartbreaking story of how they learned anything was wrong with time in the first place. Coco adapts to the new world around her but after years is forced to leave her home as food becomes scarce and winters become harsher. She's lived a full life since the looping began and stakes are high when they figure out how to re-start time since nobody truly knows what will happen to those who were not looped.

Oh My world! What can I say about a book that spoiled the next book to me?! I absolutely loved each moment of this book, I have grown with Coco, I have suffered with her, I was absolutely destroyed by the ending, and I can not stop thinking about this book, how I loved the way it was written.

In this book, each chapter have a small interlude written in the first person by Coco or by Forrest, a bit how a personal diary would be and then the chapter tell us in the third person how things come and went, the first chapter don’t really tell us what is going on, it starts with a feeling of dread something is happening and it is now. The story is told in five parts, half half by Coco and Forrest they for me, where like the half parts of a coin, in the beginning they both start by thinking very different things, and is life that bring their ideals together…

This apocalypse is very different from all the other apocalyptical books that we can find out there, people are inside of loops, and the people we follow are outside of those loops, and if they interact with the people inside those loops the people inside the loop will fight against the people who bothered them and then they will die and disappear, and that is true for animals as with people… only in the end we learn what happened in Coco House in the beginning… and where my broken heart starts, I am lying, it started a way before... I will just throw that out there, in the last 15% of the book I was ugly crying, I knew it was almost at the end, and it brings so many feeling to the surface.. yeah just thinking about the story and how it ends I am crying again, but still I can only highly recommend it, I loved it so much, the way the story is written even with the mention of babies being made, its very clean in the language, so it is fine for all ages, at least in my opinion, Coco was 12 when the end started, and while she feels mature, she also feels innocent during the book, even when thinking of her son… just read on and you’ll understand what I mean.

Thank you NetGalley and Jackson Dickert for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced audio book in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars

What a fantastic and interesting post-apocalyptic book. Coco Wells was 12 years old when most of the world got stuck in a time loop. She only saw one person alive in 15 years when she meets other survivors. The book is told through her life and Forrest over decades and going back through their journals. I loved that for the most part survivors were supportive of each other and trying to rebuild the world.

This was my first book by Ann Christy. Didn’t know she wrote books in the Hugh Howey’s Wool universe so will have to read those soon.


Excellent narration.

Great story with an I am legend/last of us vibe. An interesting take on how humanity might survive an end of world like event that seems to have left some folks without resources or community. Fantastic dystopian take on the lines blurring that we think is right and wrong.