I am sorry for the inconvenience but I don’t have the time to read this anymore and have lost interest in the concept. I believe that it would benefit your book more if I did not skim your book and write a rushed review. Again, I am sorry for the inconvenience.

I’m not mad at it, but I’m not talking to it either. A fast paced read with great character development, a great story, and great world building. Here’s why it didn’t get 5 stars: lots and lots of build up, teeny tiny reveal and then back to buildup to finish off.

The character were great but the ending fell flat. Not sure what was missing but it was just …sad. Love dystopian and was hoping to love this one too.

Imagine waking up one day and coming to the realization that most of humanity has disappeared. Upon going outside, you are surprised by an abundance of flora and fauna that didn't exist the night before. How would you survive? Find food and shelter?

Seven people awake to just this mess. Added to their problems is shorter days and violent weather. On top of that, feral pigs and giant coywolves are hoping to add them to their diet.

The Apocalypse seven is the story of how these people manage to come together and learn to survive. What they don't know is that there are even more surprises to come!

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The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette tells of seven people who woke up one day, with the rest of humanity vanished. Mr. Doucette is a published science-fiction and fantasy author.

Touré woke up in his Cambridge dorm, in his own bed, not to mention all this stuff is gone and seems like someone else’s clothes are in his drawers. Touré finds Carol and Robbie, Harvard freshmen and slowly realize the rest of humanity has simply vanished.

The threesome finds four more people who surprisingly have survived… not knowing why or how. Together the seven try to piece together what has happened, in addition to with dealing with the strange climate they’re encountering.

The interesting aspects of The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette are the overall survival aspects of a world gone empty. The protagonists of the story each attempts to figure out how to get food, shelter, as well as deal with climate change. For them, we must remember, the weather changed in a day, not over a long period of time.

The narrative switches points-of-view from each one of the seven protagonists. Each person has their own experience trying to survive the day, as well as, a theory of what has happened to the world. The ending has a twist which I saw coming, but another twist which I did not see coming at all.

I felt some of the parts were cheesy, but fun nonetheless. Telling the story from the point of view of seven people, consequently none of them seem to resonate with me. I was certainly following their stories; however, I had no personal stake in any of them.

The philosophical questions which usually accompany these books (religion, ethics, sanctify of life, etc.) were only glossed on in the novel. Personally, I didn’t mind it, frankly those discussions wouldn’t fit the narrative, but I thought I should mention it.

This was a fun book, well written and a quick read. I haven’t read much apocalypse fiction, a few months ago I read The Origin Mystery series, in which I discovered how close the human race was to extinction several times. For a book about the possible end of humanity, this one was filled with humor and lightheartedness.

The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette is a fantastic science fiction thriller with a clever ending you will not see coming. This book is The Wanders by Chuck Wendig meets Contact by Carl Sagan. A really good mix of the apocalypse with alien involvement. The characters are unique only a couple are annoying, by most in a quirky sort of way. The plot moves pretty fast and the more you find out is pretty interesting, every chapter digs more into the mystery. The finale is was really clever in what it means, I was kind of disappointed in the direction it was going but the book has a twist that totally redeems its self. I really hope people read this book, this has been my favorite new science fiction since The Wanders and Recursion. I don't think it is on the same level as those books but was very surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I read this book curtesy of Netgalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as part of John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books. The Apocalypse Seven was published on May 25 2021.

The Plot: Robbie wakes up in his dorm after at Harvard after a hangover, to find everything in his room changed, he's in the right dorm but everything is different. It is so different he can not find another living soul on his floor. He here's faint crying from a distance it is a blind woman Carol calling for her seeing eye dog. She says she can't hear anything, and Robbie looks out side to see a vast forest and no other species around. They start finding various people and finding signs temperature changes, tornadoes, and roaming wolf packs, that the earth as they know it doesn't exist. They call it the whateverpocalypse because it is so random, but will they survive it? They feel watched but can't see who is watching?

What I Liked: I liked how funny parts were, it makes the novel really flow. I liked the mystery of what happened to 7 random strangers and how it kept building with every chapter. I liked liked how Carol who is blind was written through sounds and feeling, which made for intense scenes with the wolf pack. I love loved the ending, I was setting myself up for disappointment but the final twist was great one that changed everything. I liked that we met the puppet master and he was not who anybody was expecting. I liked how Robbie became the reluctant leader. I loved Win and how tough she was.

What I Disliked: The character of Toure was a bit much at times. I wanted to see more of Paul's encounter's with the wild. There were a couple of moments where you have to suspend disbelief and science a lot, I was able to do that and still enjoy the book, I know some people can't and this might not be the book for you.

Recommendation: I think this was a fun little book, with good storytelling and fun characters. The ending is fantastic and such a good twist. I had a lot of fun with this book. I rated The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette 5 out of 5 stars. The rating was between 4 and 5 with the fun level and twist pushing it to a 5. This is my first Gene Doucette but I will check out other works in the future.

What happens when you sleep through the end of the world? Seven people wake to find they are alone and the world as they knew it has ended.

First to wake is Robbie, alarmed that he is missing his first day of freshman classes at Harvard and then confused as there is no power, no people and the campus is overgrown and teeming with wildlife. Soon he finds Carol, a blind student, who is searching for her guide dog that has disappeared. As they continue to search the campus and surrounding city they run into Tourʹe, literally as he almost runs Robbie down with his bicycle. As the sounds of hunting wolves come closer, they realize they need safe shelter for the night as well as food so they head for a local supermarket. They get separated with Tourʹe reaching the supermarket where he finds 13-year-old Bethany while Robbie and Carol find shelter from the wolves elsewhere. Reunited in the morning they start to realize that surviving the apocalypse is going to be a lot harder than they realize.

Outside of the city, Preacher Paul takes a bit longer to realize that he is apparently alone in the world since he is a recluse who lives off the grid. When no one shows for Sunday services he packs up and goes looking for others. Taking shelter in a missing friend’s home he manages to get the ham radio running and finally finds one voice out in the airwaves, an MIT professor named Ananda. He sets off from his New Hampshire home to find her at MIT. Elsewhere Win wakes on her family ranch to find no one around there or at any of the surrounding farms or ranches. As she makes her way towards the city she finds a horse she names Elton (a favorite character for me) and works her way to the city. Eventually all seven meet up and join forces only to find that lack of power, extreme weather and hunting packs of wolves and boar are possibly the least of their problems as they are stalked by a two differing phenomena - a lurking shadow with BO and sparkling lights that seem to be getting angrier.

I love end of the world literature but this is more about what comes after since the world has long ended when our protagonists awaken. As a refreshing change our survivors are not survivalists or preppers, they make mistakes, they are slow to realize some important needs but they work together to make a life for themselves. I can’t really say a lot about the two extra phenomena they have to face without spoiling the plot. This is a wonderful read and is highly recommended.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt I seriously could kiss your face off for this ebook copy!
I have just recently found a new love for Apocalypse books! I think they are so interesting and there is something about them that seriously holds my attention like no other!
And this is why love a good Apocalypse Book right here!!!!!!.

The Apocalypse Seven by Gene did just that. I was very intrigued from start.
I stayed up late to finish this book... 3am late!.😂

The characters were outstanding, realistic, interesting..... They seriously are what made this story great!
The writing WoW!!!!! I've seen where this is compared to Chucks book The Wanderers (which I had to buy also) thank you! LoL
TAS literally has everything discussed in it...... A post apocalyptic mystery, sci-fi,psychological drama,
The tension and craziness that's here is fascinating. overall, I loved it! Ill recommend the hell outta it.

So I could go on and on about the book so I'll leave it here for now.....

Thank you so very much NG Publisher and Author for this amazing ebook copy!

Thank you to Netgalley & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for the ARC.

Gene Douchette’s The Apocalypse Seven is a fast-paced novel set in Cambridge, Massachusetts where a ragtag group of people navigate life after the end of the world. This book is oddly endearing, despite being literally ridden with flaws, just crawling all over the pages like teeming ants. Its advantages are that it’s pretty fun, diverse, and easy to read; but ultimately, I can't say I liked it very much.

The characterisation is weird at times. One character obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons says things like ‘let’s restore health and continue our quest’, or, when he’s injured, ‘no worries, I’m just an NPC’ – obviously very stiff dialogue that may be enjoyable for some but I found disconnected me from the story. I liked Ananda, the MIT astrophysicist, but even found her clunkily written. It was a quick read, enjoyable in a mindless kind of way, but definitely not a favourite read for me.

Read more at https://leahebinns.org/2021/05/06/march-a-whole-bunch-of-sci-fi/.

An undergraduate wakes up on an empty campus, believing he's late for class, but soon he gets the idea that time may have passed, or unpassed, in an abnormal way. There are no humans, and plant and animal wildlife has already begun to retake the city. Traversing Mass Ave is still a bit of a challenge, as it is in real life, but in entirely new ways. The survivors wonder what has happened. Are they ghosts? Is the world a hologram? Are they players in a video game? Has the Rapture come? Did everyone else die? Or did everyone else, perhaps, turn into animals?

They find emergency food provisions, a tasteless substance ticklishly called "Noot," in sufficient quantity to give them time to learn to hunt for food and generally reinvent survival strategies they don't already have. Moving out to the suburbs where there is more land to farm may be a good long-term option. Meanwhile, predatory animals seem especially large and prowling.

I grew up in the area near Lexington and Lincoln that features here, where I heard the history of early settlers and farmers. Imagining how I might live off this land is a basic question within my normal mental framework; whether I could lead a horse "up the ramp to the Massachusetts Turnpike" has also at times seemed a reasonable hypothetical, given my own private flurries; whether telephones would need to be reinvented or rebuilt is probably also relevant; the implicit *Would you rather...?* of *Knife-fight a bear?* or *Remain very cold without a bearskin?* is definitely an important existential question. So I do enjoy a novel that explores these problems.

Unserious though such a fictional premise may seem, for me it inevitably raises the question of why humans believe that "humanity" itself - -"civilization," let's say --is important, and what sorts of artifacts and systems we tend to believe would be important to maintain or reconstruct. We might change our assumptions when faced with a pressing situation.

I liked that it was written conversationally, which kept the story moving along at a good clip. Some language is a bit "othering," like that which describes the first-year roommates in the opening scene, one of whom is identified as Vietnamese and the other of whom isn't assigned a nationality/race, or a sentence like "it became obvious that Carol's blindness was going to be a problem" (i.e. Carol was not going to be able to prowl for food and shelter in the same way or at the same speed that other group members could). It's a little jarring, but in this case, generally it does not, for me, overshadow the story.

A good "summer read," even if one must, if ever faced with the whateverpocalypse, worry about what will happen when winter comes.

I would like to say thank you to NetGalley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books for my complimentary copy of "Apocalypse Seven" as I quite enjoyed the book. I love the dystopian "end of the world" genre and this book definitely delivered. I especially liked that it was different than most of the other dystopian novels I have read.

"Apocalypse Seven" offered a group of seven survivors from different backgrounds including Harvard students, MIT students, Cambridge students, a Pastor and few other characters. All of these characters brought their own charm to the overall story and added to the entire storyline. I can honestly say I enjoyed each of the different characters.

The book itself was fantastic with a comedic touch. The story first introduces us to Robbie and Carol and as the rest of the story progresses we start to meet the other characters as they begin to discover each other. As they all start to piece together what happened and if they indeed managed to survive the "Apocalypse", to be later deemed the "whateverpocalypse".

The entire story is about survival without the everyday essentials such as food, clothes, electricity and even no internet. The seven survivors must band together to stay alive, protect themselves from the dangers of the new world, all while trying to figure out what happened and restart Earth as they all knew it. They face incliment weather, wild animals, and weird happenings.

If I am being honest, when I first started reading the book, I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it but I am glad I stuck with it and read it whole as the conclusion was definitely not what I was expecting; hence, not the usual dystopian plotline I am used too. I really enjoyed the trackline this story took as it was both strange and unique. I liked each of the characters and all of the various situations they were forced to face. Not knowing where the story was actually going added to my overall employment of the book.

My thanks to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for an advanced copy of this new dystopian novel.

Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette is a day after tomorrow novel, where a group of characters wake up to find their way of life gone, their friends absent, and the world an overgrown mess of flora, fauna and lots of questions.

The said Seven join together in learning both the day by days of survival together, plus the larger long term ways of making it in this brave new world they find themselves in. The characters are a little cute, and some of the dialogue can be a tad cringy but the story can absorb this faults. The pacing can be rough too, with a long middle section that just seems to keep going, but the ending is interesting and moves well. A good entry in the end of the world as they know it genre.

The Apocalypse Seven was an interesting read. Survival/End of the world novels tend to be a hit or miss for me, but this one caught my eye on Netgalley. Seven people who wake up alone on a seemingly deserted Earth, with no idea what happened or if anyone else is left ? Okay I'll bite.

As it turns out, even though the plot is fairly mysterious, the strength of this book is definitely its characters. They're all different, with different views on what happened, different reactions, different ideas, etc. I usually don't enjoy reading when there are multiple POV's, but I didn't really mind this time. It actually felt like they were complementing each other. Of course, all their interactions is based around the mystery of them being the last people on Earth, but still. The way they each handle it is interesting to read about. It definitely made me wonder how I would react in such a situation!

Of all the characters, Ananda was my favorite. She is an astrophysician, who wakes up in MIT. Immediately, she starts to analyze what is going on, and her science brain takes over. I really loved it! She has the most rational approach of the apocalypse, and I admire her a lot for her cleverness and bravery. She made all the right decisions, and it actually felt like she was a magnet to whom everyone ended up being drawn. I wish she had gotten more chapters in the book, instead of Robbie, Touré and Carol.

Those three are the main characters. At least, they seem to get more pages? It felt like it. I liked them well enough, despite the fact their decision making was not always the best. Can I really blame them though? They're just teens. Still, I feel like some side characters such as Ananda and Paul should have gotten the same amount of chapters as the main trio. I wanted to hear more about their stories, they were really captivating!

All seven people in the group find each other, and come together to try to understand what has happened to them. The development is fairly slow, evenly spread throughout the novel, which was very enjoyable. There is always the right amount of information to keep you guessing, but also to give you a shot a piecing evidence together. I enjoyed being the 8th member of that little group and try to solve the mystery.

As exciting the discovery of evidence might be, I found the ending to be a little disappointing, which is why I'm rating it 4 stars. It was such a great buildup of information, and suddenly, the plot unravels, and there are all those elements that make you say : "All this for that?". I thought the final explanation given for the apocalypse and everything else was a little bit too easy. It does the job, but I was left with a "meh" feeling.

It was a very cool read, it makes for a great apocalypse story, but it lacks substance from time to time. Still entertaining though!

Have you watched the Netflix series The Society? The Apocalypse Seven is like that, but with 7 people.

Future World. Everything is overrun by flora and fauna. Whatever happened to the people? No one knows. Its upto the only 7 surviving strangers to save themselves and figure out what happened to cause this whateverpocalypse!!

Fascinating and brilliantly vivid, the atmosphere and the story telling is just amazing. Seven characters each unique in their own way must work together to stay alive. Although the pacing takes a slow turn at places, reader could never loose interest with the story till the end. The characters weren’t my favourite, but they did their part on explaining the apocalyptic setting and the horror seen from their eyes. Serious Wanderer vibes. But I think this would be better as an audiobook since hearing the 7 different voices, their opinions, and illusions would be more entertaining! [4.25/5]

Thank you HMH books and Netgalley for the arc.

Seven strangers find themselves alone on Earth. The Apocalypse Seven must figure out what happened to everyone else. In addition, they need to decide how to proceed from here.

I love the idea of this book much better than the execution itself. In the beginning, I enjoyed hunting for clues about what happened in each person’s story. However, after the third almost identical description, I started, unfortunately, becoming bored. So, I felt that the build up to the stunning conclusion was too long and too slow. But I felt the conclusion, which began at 85% into the book, was rushed. Still, the ending was awesome and completely different than what I guessed. Therefore, I’ll give The Apocalypse Seven 4 stars for its well thought out world-building and innovative finale.

Thanks to John Joseph Adams, Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

DNF. An interesting new take on the apocalypse genre. A few too many characters with rotating perspectives, but a good panel of diversity if nothing else. Not sure how I feel about the portrayal Carol’s blindness, and rather than having a diverse cast of characters because the world itself (and truly, Northeast America/greater Massachusetts), it tended towards token-y. I hope to finish this story, but couldn’t find myself hooked to get through it as quickly as I had hoped.

A mind-warping, fascinating, funny look at the end of the world... or the "whateverpocalypse", as one of the survivors calls it. Set in and around Cambridge, a group of seven strangers finds themselves the only living people in a world suddenly overrun by wildlife and out of control trees. Working together to stay alive and figure it all out, the seven are inventive, funny, clever, and very, very entertaining. A great read!

An intriguing and unpredictable multi-POV apocalyptical novel.
Seven people woke up one morning and discovered that the world around them has changed and everyone is gone. The author did a pretty good job building the post-apocalyptical world and explaining the event that triggered it. Overall, this was a great fast-paced thriller filled with interesting characters and unique elements.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the free copy!

Apocalyptic fiction is one of my favourite categories, so I always have a soft spot for these novels. There were elements of this one that I really enjoyed - the unknown, the relationships between the characters, and the depiction of the struggles of being one of the last humans on Earth. That being said, I didn't really connect with any of the characters. Unfortunately, the first half felt like it jumped around too much for me - each character could have almost been their own story. Also, the story felt very long - and not in the way I would want it to... Overall, it was an intriguing premise but I just didn't fall in love with it the way I expected.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to review an advance reader copy. All opinions are my own.

Robbie is a freshman about to start his first week at Harvard. He awakens after his first keg party in his dorm room only to discover that everybody has disappeared. The courtyard is completely overgrown and there are feral animals everywhere. He stumbles around until he finds Carol, another freshman who happens to be blind. They become fast friends and continue to discover survivors of the ‘whateverpocalypse’ until there are seven of them total. After they figure out how to get by on a day-to-day basis, they start to dig into what happened when the world ended.

I thought the beginning of this one was promising. Robbie and Carol had great banter and I thought the cast of the other survivors were entertaining as well. They were all very unique and I appreciated how we got tidbits of their lives right when they woke up and realized something was very wrong. I just found the second half to be a lot weaker and some of the plot points didn’t make sense to me. It started to drag on and then the last 20 pages were jam packed. If you are a sci-fi apocalypse fan, this one may be right up your alley. But for me, it just didn’t tick all of the boxes.