![]() ![]() “Who is really brave enough to knowingly watch their species go extinct?” ![]() How do you cope with that? How do you handle growing up and living your life knowing you are humanities last chance at survival? Lowrie and Shen are stuck in this life where the only other people that exist are 60+ years older than them. This is so much more than your average post apocalyptic young adult novel. However one day their blissful life is torn apart when, after a tragic accident, they discover a secret that threatens all those they love and life as they knew it. “When you know that there’s no future, the only thing that’s interesting any more is the past.” They spend their days mudlarking for artifacts from history to trying to connect with the past and the people in it. They have been raised by what is left of humanity, a small close-knit aging community in London. Set in the aftermath of a virus that caused global infertility, Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet. ![]() I don’t know what I was expecting going into this one but whatever my expectations were the reality far exceeded them. The Quiet at the End of the World was so much more than I thought it would be. “A boy and a girl, living on the outskirts of a collapsed civilization, watching their species go extinct.” ![]()
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