The Never-Ending End of the World

Obsessed! One of the best books I've read! I love each and every character and the storyline was laid out to perfection. If you read Swan Song by Robert McCammon, you will enjoy reading every word of this book.

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.

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 is written, and in this audiobook having two people telling the story sounds so even better, they both bring so much emotion, and all characters to life. I already knew Theresa Plummer, she read another series that I absolutely loved, so even thou I didn’t know if I would like the story I knew I would be great with her reading, I didn’t know Ari Fliakos, but I loved his part as well, I enjoy so much more when the people reading do all the other voices around and they both delivered on that department, and you know what? The story is as good as Theresa and Ari reading, I loved this book to bits, I ended up reading and listening at the same time, and I cant recommend this book enough, the story is great, the actors reading do a really great job, you feel each of their words, their fears, their joy… yeah I wish I could start again without knowing the story.. make it the first time again…

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 Campfire Publishing for the free AAC and this is my honest opinion.

The Never-Ending End of the World by Ann Christy- audiobook edition Available 8/8/23
Thank you NetGalley, Ann Christy and Campfire Piblishing for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.
I would definitely give this 4.5/5 stars which surprises me a little since this is not my typical genre of choice. This dystopian novel about the end of the world is a unique perspective and doesn’t use the same zombie or virus plot device. In this book, something has happened that has caused a majority of the world to be stuck in loops repeating what they are doing over and over for what seems could be eternity. Some people aren’t stuck in these loops though and have to figure out how to survive around these loops (you can’t disturb or interrupt the loops without some negative consequences) and try to rebuild society. As resources dwindle and societal problems increase, the focus of one group turns to trying to find the cause of the looping and see if it can be fixed.
This started off as a slow burn for me. I was intrigued by the unique take on what would cause the end of our world as we know it, but since this isn’t my usual genre I didn’t realize just how deeply involved I was getting. Ann Christy does such a wonderful job developing the characters and this world that you don’t even realize how attached you’re getting and deeply you’re being sucked into their stories. And then the climax. I can’t say much about it without spoilers which I just refuse to list but this was when I realized just how involved I had gotten in this story. Pride, grief, happiness, hope, so many mixed emotions brought out in this ending! I’m a crier when I read and let me tell you- I CRIED. I would highly recommend this to any fan of dystopian novels or even just fans of stories driven by character and relationship development.

After finishing The Never-Ending End of the World I had to take a few deep breaths and stop everything I was doing for a few minutes. I just had to recover. There are very few books that I say I want to read or listen to again. This was one of those. Before the year is over I will definitely go through this book again. I loved it.

The story is complex but easy to understand. Something happened to the world where people are living out a moment over and over, on a loop. The main character Coco calls them loopers. Everything around the looper remains in the condition it was at the time the loop took place. Years later the loop will still be in the same shape.

“Never disturb a looper” this was learned the hard way by Coco and many others. The loops were such an interesting concept and I love how so many questions I would have had ended up answered organically in the story.

The story follows Coco over the course of decades. You see the people she comes across and the life she builds in this post-apocalyptic world. You will love Coco and everyone she meets. Everything from the writing to the narration was perfect in this book.

I loved the way the book ends. I didn’t know how this story was going to wrap up and I really love the way it came together. It’s not at all what I expected and it was a better conclusion than anything I can think of.

I also want to shout out the acknowledgment section of this book. Author Ann Christy really pours her heart out and explains so much she personally went through. Her sincerity made me really want to scream about how much I love this book.

Don’t wait any longer. Go check out The Never-Ending End of the World now.