Thanks NetGalley for the ARC!

AVA REID DOES IT AGAIN. This was a fantastic read. Literally fed my middle school dystopian obsessed self. The characters were beautifully messy and flawed and the world was dark and screwed up and I devoured every second of it. The romance in this story was perfectly written so it didn't overshadow the story, but instead complimented it and highlighted the cruelty of the world Reid has built.

I 100% recommend this story. I could hardly put it down the entire time I was reading it and I have not stopped thinking about it since I finished it. This was exactly what I needed mid reading slump. I loved it.

as someone who needs more than just the world building of a dystopian world, i often struggle to buy into the story that is being told because i can't connect to the gravity of the relationship or the stakes. why should i care about why the world turned out the way it did? the world is already in shambles and although selfish i need to worry about the people around me. i thought the build up was paced really well in terms of introducing the stakes with the economic and political aspects of why the world is currently like that, which allowed for the characters' place in that world to feel isolated enough to have proper growth. i don't want to say more than that but this is me buying in if that means anything.

4.25 stars

The comparison between 'The Hungers Games/The Ballad of songbirds & Snake' mixed with the 'Last of us' is dead on.
BUT I would like to say this story also had a dash of 'The Uglies' & Black Widow 'Red Room' vibes.

While you can see perhaps slight inspirations from these comparison, Fable for the End of the World this book is entirely its own.
Ava Reid delivers us a dystopia world, that eerily enough, may just show our own world's future thanks to our own fractured government/corporate, the limitation on female rights and human rights.
Our two FMC's, Melinoë & Inesa show the two sides of the world with the book. One is an assassin crafted by the corporate government to hunt and kill the unfortunate 'Lambs', all livestreamed for the enjoyment & horror of the world, who has fallen from grace - her programming. While the other struggles to survive and keep her family afloat from credit debt .. until her mother offers her life up as a lamb to settle her hidden debt.
Their world's collide and with both their lives on the line, love should be an impossibility but the human spirit will always find a way to thrive.

That ending has me BEGGING FOR AN EPILOGUE. I think a lot of people will love this book!