To cope with everyday life, neurodivergent Kat is a secret binge drinker, and jilted Ryan is a workaholic. Disillusioned, neither does more than go through the motions of living—then comes the asteroid.
Warned that a planet-killing asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, acquaintances Kat and Ryan join forces in an effort to survive. Mere hours before impact, they race toward the safety of Ryan's inherited South Dakota bunker, encountering chaos. A last-ditch effort to nuke the asteroid only manages to fragment it into chunks causing multiple strikes.
Earthquakes, fire, and volcanic ashfall assail Kat and Ryan, who turn to each other for solace. Kat finds someone kind who values her differences and Ryan finds himself falling for Kat's pluck and quick-thinking. Though jaded, they learn to trust and rely on one another.
Attempting to survive the onslaught of their new world, Kat and Ryan must reach the bunker before imminent food shortages and catastrophic climate change cause society to further unravel.
The Edge of Life shows that survival can include falling in love. With steamy romance and non-stop action, this is one thrilling apocalypse road trip you shouldn't miss.
I love a post apoc story. It's always interesting to see how things go and how people cope. My rating of this story varies a little depending on whether it's a single story or the first of a series; I can't find anything that says either way.
As the first in a series, this is great, introducing us to two great characters and getting things established and settled in a base, giving us a villian who can recur and cause more problems. As a single story, the characters are still great - although more on Kat in a moment - but the ending is very frustrating.
The blurb says that Kat is neurodivergent, and she claims it herself at the end, but I didn't get any sense of that during the read; her narration is as easy as Ryan's and she doesn't seem to have trouble with anything. She nearly has a panic attack at one point, but I'd have been curled into a ball long before that, so it didn't strike me as odd.
I enjoyed this read, it was fun and exciting (I skimmed some of the sexy bits, but that's just me) and if this is a series, I look forward to reading more of it.
The Edge of Life is available now. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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