Thank You for the free ARC.

Somehow, I had already read this in 2015? Good dystopian novel; a little bit like world war z without zombies.

Not a bad read at all, exciting in places, and completely far-fetched in other places.

This book was amazing! It would be a wonderful movie! Excitement at every encounter and every bend in the road. You can't predict what will happen and such a surprise afterwards. The title threw me off but it's perfect. And you have to finish it fast too! I am recommending it to everyone and hopefully our Library will order it. I am pretty dang sure they will!!

Honestly, I thought there'd be more running.

I really enjoyed this book, as it has all of my favorite post-apocalyptic tropes! World wide disaster: Check! Rag-Tag bunch of unlikely heroes: Check! A race against time to save a loved one: Check! It's a super quick read, with a great pace that keeps you turning pages.

I will caution that it has a pretty unlikable narrator, and the women in this book are few and far between, but it didn't really bug me enough to take me out of the story.

I would recommend this book to fans of post-apocalyptic literature, or anyone who is suffering from a lack of asteroid-based nightmares.

This story is set in England and is a apocalyptic event that leaves part of the world intact but Europe seems to be decimated. Ed seems like an unlikely survivor, he is lazy and puts out minimum effort in his marriage and parenting skills. There are some funny moments as he makes his way across England and I'm glad he found safe haven and friends to help him along the way. Wasn't a stand out for me but I enjoyed the book.

I had high hopes for this book but really didn't care for the main character. He seemed just selfish and it was crazy to me that it took the world ending for him to appreciate his family. I also didn't feel like the actual running was realistic for someone as out of shape as he was. Decent premise but I wanted more from the execution.

Edgar is a terrible father and an awful husband. When the world ends, he endeavours to improve as he realizes family is everything. Will he step up, take responsibility and save his family? A good adventure story.

I enjoyed reading this story. However, it lacked something that I can't pinpoint. It was entertaining but it wasn't great. The main character was a little annoying. I enjoyed reading about his transformation but at times it was a bit much. And sometimes the story was slow.

A great post-UK read. There is a lot to love in this new US edition.

This is the post-apocalyptic tale takes place in Scotland and tells the story of man named Edgar Hill who has become complacent with his job, his children, his lifestyle and life in general. He drinks, eat things that are bad for his health and looks scornfully at those who watch what they eat, are engaged with their families and run for fitness which makes the title all more ironic. What happens is that hundreds if not thousands of meteors hit earth with no warning from the government. Everything is destroyed and he and his family only survive due to the fact that there small home has a cellar which the larger homes across the street do not. They barely have enough time to through down what canned food they have in the house and a case of bottled water he manages to loot from a nearby corner store, diapers for the baby and his daughters stuffed rabbits.
What follows is many days of rationing food, breaking open pipes and hoping there is enough water to last them a few more days when they are finally rescued by the remnants of the army that were in the area. They are brought to a holding facility where they spend several weeks trying to recover but soon they realize that they are running out of food and the men go into the cities to salvage what they can to survive.
While on a trek to the city they return to find out that helicopters from the coast have come and picked up all of their families and brought them to the coast where there are ships waiting to take them to less devastated areas. When they realize that they only have 3 weeks to cover 500 miles and the only way they can do that is to run all of the way there. They of course have many obstacles both physically and mentally to overcome to reach their goal.
I found the book fascinating, engaging and even though this feels like a stand alone book I was left wondering about Edgar Hill and where the path took him next.

This was a good book. As I was describing the sequence of events to my spouse, he commented that it seemed pretty predictable, and he's kind of right. There are only so many ways an end-of-the-world story can go and if you've read more than a few, there is going to be some kind of repetition. His comment did make me notice just how often a chapter ends on a cliff-hanger, which seems pretty unnecessary: the reader isn't in this book for the action; we're in it because the main character is a lousy but redeemable guy. He's not terrible because he's heartless, it's because he's lazy. We can understand him.

Maybe it's silly, but the most unbelievable thing isn't that all the international space programs miss the asteroids, or that society collapses, or that a middle-aged paragon of flab manages to un marathons daily, or that there is a new illness of unknown origin medicine can't treat; it's how patient the wife is. She doesn't have much on-screen time, but we hear from the main character how patient she is, a stay-at-home mom of a toddler and a baby, she does all the housework and doesn't say anything to her tubby, uninvolved, frequently-drunk husband. Doesn't give him a hard time, rarely makes demands, is organized and clear-headed in emergencies, and is unquestionably in love with him, even when he has spent years trying to escape the life he has made for himself. She stands out as thinly-painted and poorly-planned.

I've got to say, I do enjoy the whole dystopian, post-apocalyptic novels. I found this to be an interesting read and the protagonist, while certainly flawed, rose to his personal challenge. I think he redeemed himself over the course of the book and I was satisfied with the ending.

I'd like to read this again at some point but more slowly; I rushed a bit through the second half so I could find out what happened.

This is the apocalypse for dudes. The main character is a man, the only developed characters are men, and the female characters play minor roles. There's some iffy stuff with the treatment of the women, and the male characters are unlikable. It was an interesting idea but unfortunately, I couldn't get past the characters. There were also some pretty brutal passages, so you might want to pass if that's not your thing.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for a free e-copy in return for an honest review.

I must admit I though this book was out last year as I remember seeing a poster for it in a train station and thinking that I exactly the type of book I would enjoy. I even had it on my rather extensive excel list of Books I Want to Read. So when I saw it on Netgalley I requested it straight away and dove into it.

It’s an end of the wold post apocalypse survivors running club and part of it least is set in my home town Edinburgh which ticks to major boxes for me in novel choices.

Ed is a fat middle aged father of two caught in a cycle of dissatisfaction, disinterest in his life and too much wine. He wakes up one Sunday to look after his young son and realises, very slowly through the hangover that something is not right. The newspaper shop is still closed, and people are behaving strangely. It turns out that the British Isles are about to be bombarded with asteroids and panic is setting in. This had been announced on the media the night previously but Ed can only dimly remember it through the wine haze.

The pace of the book starts well. The panic and surprise of the asteroid impact comes early on in the book and you get hooked in. Ed is, by his own admission, not the best of fathers and husbands but he does manage to save his family.
However, he gets left behind after his family are evacuated from Edinburgh to Cornwall (a nine hour drive in the best of circumstances). His family are due to be transported to safety by boat in three months and Ed must get to Cornwall or forever lose them.

I really enjoyed this book. Ed is naïve and downright stupid at times. There was at least one occasion where his group walked into danger with their eyes wide open. This doesn’t detract from the theme though of a man overcoming his own shortcomings to get to those he loves. Its not a book for runners, it’s a book about survival.

I can understand though from reading other online reviews why some people didn’t like Ed and just found him annoying. For me I enjoyed it and the only reason it’s a 4 and not a 5 star is the American Jargon in the text. There are no Sidewalks in UK, we fill our cars with Petrol not gas, and our cars have bonnets and boots not hoods.

Reminiscent of Station Eleven in its form. Loved the characters and the different groups and individuals encountered in this post apocalyptic literary novel.

Thank you to Netgalley for the copy in exchange for an honest review.
Being honest, I already read this book but was so excited to see it on here, I requested it to give a review. I read it last year and insisted my library system purchase it last July (2016). It's featured heavily in my reader advisory displays and I am always shoving it into people's hands.
This book has it all. It's a vivid, heart-racing, and altogether believable account of a father during what appears to be the end of the world. I don't want to give spoilers because I wouldn't like to ruin the read, but I will say it is so believable with such well-written and honest characters (and an honest family- I remember reading this book and being so heartened by the family interractions because they are true and fallable), you won't be able to put it down. I wasn't able to.
The ending is absolutely brilliant. This is the best post-apocalyptic read, adult or teen, I've read, and I have read a lot.

This was quite a surprise - the blurb doesn't quite capture the spirit of this book. We don't begin with Edgar needing to get back to his family; in fact, we begin with them trapped in a cellar for two weeks. Events do eventually lead to this separation, and the "running club" that arises as a result.

Overall, I'd say my experience with this book is a mis-pairing between book and reader. Edgar is just so wrapped up in himself; this quest to find his way back to his wife and children isn't for them in the slightest. It almost comes across as a way for him to prove to himself that he really does want to find them. And while Edgar manages to push himself far further on this quest than he could have ever previously imagined, it doesn't feel like he develops as a person at all.

With the ambiguous ending, there's room for another book - I would check it out if there were, but it's likely not something I'd actually seek out.

I received a copy of this book in return for an honest review. My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity.

I had never heard of this book or author before running across The End of The World Running Club's description on NetGalley; when I did discover it I promptly requested to read it. Thank you to NetGalley for the book in exchange for an honest review and thank you also to SOURCEBOOKS Landmark and to the author Adrian J Walker.

I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic tales and this one hit the spot for me despite the simplicity and lack of insightfulness overall. This was a straightforward tale of a group of men and a woman who had to run across their nation to get to the boats that will rescue them from their shattered homes, left useless after asteroids spent days pulverizing the planet.

The protagonist is Edgar, a 35-year-old disconnected husband, and father who sleeps and eats his life away, and almost slept through the apocalypse but managed to, at the last second, throw his family and a few poorly chosen supplies to last the two weeks in a cellar below their home. They were rescued on the verge of death only to be separated from each other when bunking in a military compound while Edgar, doing his best, was out on a supply run with other men from the compound.

Ed's journey to find his family is filled with action and adventure as the group meets other survivors along the way. The ending of the story is not at all what I expected and (I feel) is open to interpretation. I don't normally like that type of ending but I feel it worked well for The End of The World Running Club.

After reading this book by Adrian J Walker I do look forward to reading more work by him in the future.