My review is voluntarily written after both reading and listening to this book.
This story touched something in me, maybe it's because, like Frankie, I'm a widow, losing the person who completes you is never easy and the author managed to capture the loss beautifully. This book is an emotional rollercoaster, it may be short but it evoked so many feelings and caused me to cry ugly tears and yet I had to keep listening.
The plotline will strike a chord with lots of people because it's about a virus that affects the whole planet, listening to it now when to a much lesser degree we are still in a similar situation you realise just how well done the author's plot was. I liked the backstory the author gave us for each of the main characters, Frankie a little more than Yorke, but by the time I'd listened to them, I felt like I knew them and could really relate to them.
At first, Frankie comes across as a helpless female but the more things she has to deal with the more she realizes that she's stronger than she thought. She has to be as the virus escalates and so many people are dead or dying. Jimmy the love of her life didn't make it but it seems that Frankie is immune to the virus but the pain and loss Frankie goes through after Jimmy's death was palpable and powerfully portrayed, it felt real as if I was going through my own loss again as Frankie struggled with knowing that she has to go on living in a world without Jimmy. She finds Auden a 5-year-old boy whose parents have died which temporarily gives her a reason to live but it's only temporary.....
Yorke, the main hero, if that's the right word is a US serviceman who has returned home to the US to spend his last days with his family and loved ones, well that's the idea but he's had no contact with his family for some time although he does try to get in touch with his brother once his plane lands. We weren't given as much background information on Yorke but he's a character I want to know more about.
In this first book, Yorke and Frankie don't meet but I'd like to be a fly on the wall when they do. The author did a great job highlighting the fears encountered in a post-apocalyptic world, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I had chills down my spine a few times, I've already said it's an emotional rollercoaster and it is so be prepared, have some tissues handy.
The ending is abrupt, but it's not a standalone story which I knew before I started listening I was, however, left looking forward to the next instalment in this series.
I feel I have to mention the narration by William Trevino it was very well done and made it possible for me to continue with the story when tears would have stopped me from reading.
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