My thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin (US & Canada) MIRA for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.

Slight spoilers follow.

Ummmm....none of the characters were likable, all were pretty much dumb and in a real life end of time event, they would have all died. And I would have cheered.

I had to keep checking that this book was written by a woman, as the MC's wife was written as "manic pixie dream girl all grown up", but not mature. I THINK she was supposed to have an un-treated mental disorder, but she mentioned to her husband in more than one fight that she was crazy/had issue/wasn't normal, etc. I'm not sure how mental illness works, but does the person who has it realize that they do? And if they do, would they rather not do anything about it? I think she was just really selfish with a side of immaturity and inability to adult properly and used mental illness as an excuse to do whatever she wanted. The whole not wanting to help August and do something her husband really wanted to do, for once in their relationship kinda clinched it for me.

Her husband thinks incredibly poorly of her the entire time we are in his head (which is a pretty horrible place to be, btw), so it should come as NO surprise that they barely act like roommates who use each other for physical release and that their marriage doesn't seem like one. I can't even say it disintegrates throughout the course of the book, because the reader never gets to see it whole or even partially whole.

And the MC's whole flip-flop over wanting to have kids was a complete head-scratcher, especially since it was supposed to be the end of life as we know it and he wants to bring a baby into that, when before he just wanted it to be him and his f-buddy, I mean wife?

So both MCs were pretty horrible. The rest of the characters were all stupid and antagonistic, rather than pulling together for the greater good and survival of as many people as possible. Kind of depressing, because that's probably how it will go down, should the end of times occur.

I was hoping this would be more of a prepper and survival book, not an internal monologue and drama of two children trapped in the body of grown adults.

It was written well, but it just didn't work for me. And when I peeked at the end and saw the cheating, I was DONE. I don't care how lousy things are with your spouse, fix them or end the marriage, THEN sleep around after it is done. NOTHING excuses cheating, not even the end of the world as you know it.

Skipped from page 197 to 336 and that scene made me decide I didn't need to read the rest of the book.

2 stars because I didn't hate it and I will sell it to someone looking for apocalypse-lite with a huge helping of drama, but not something I will go out of my way to recommend.

As a Super Storm threatens to devastate America, a young married couple find themselves preparing for the disaster in very different ways. One joins a group of Doomsday 'Preppers' - convinced the Government are hiding the worst information from the public. The other gets involved with a group devoted to practical preparation - but will either really matter when the time comes? Will any of them survive The Storm?

I loved this story, I couldn't put it down.