Quick Stats
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 3.5 stars
Plot: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Setting: 3/5
Writing: 3/5

Special thanks to Wattpad Books for an ARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.

I’ve been putting off reviewing this book. Honestly, I’m not sure why. I enjoyed it. It was fun. I just really don’t have strong feelings about it any which way.

After a plague swept through the world killing the majority of the population and all women, Ara is alone. Her mother and sister are dead. Her father is missing. All she knows is that she has to do as he said before he disappeared: go back to the beginning.
Kaden is a member of a clan of survivors. And when he and Ara cross paths, Ara ends up his captive. Kaden wants to protect her; Ara wants to use his resources to find out what her father meant. Neither has time for love—but the attraction between them is hard to deny.

It was a fun, quick read. I liked Kaden and Ara. The plot was interesting. But honestly, it was forgettable.

It was also very Christian—which I was totally fine with, given the fact that I am Christian and books with a religious undertone are something I can enjoy (plus good YA Christian fiction is almost non-existant). I just wasn’t expecting it. It was Christian in the fact that the world is Hell but the wise older character who is somehow content despite it is always reading/quoting his Bible and giving religious-based advice to the main characters. The main characters are cynics, but in their hour of need they tend to heed the advice of that character and throw up a prayer. As I said, it was an aspect I thought was nice, but I definitely wasn’t expecting it—especially from a book that started out on WattPad.

In the end, it was a fun, if forgettable book, and if it sounds like something you’d enjoy, it’s worth picking up.