Book Review: After the End by Amy Plum

After the End

by Amy Plum

Reviewed by Reece

My rating: 4 stars

"She’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future.

World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.

At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.

When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.

Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past."

After the End is a book about this girl, Juneau. The people who live in her village (Which is in Alaska) get kidnapped, and so she has to leave the village because she is afraid she will get kidnapped to.

Backstory Time, Juneau and all the other kids were born in that small village in Alaska, but also they are born with a golden start burst in one of their eyes, and when they turn 18, they take these herbs that make them live forever. Crazy right? Just bear with me. Most of the adults had taken the herbs in time, but the man that figured it out, was already kind of old, so he is the only one in the village that has grey hair.

Once these people had kids, that’s how they got the starburst in one of their eyes, they taught them about how the everywhere else got destroyed a long time ago, and that Alaska was the only safe place left. The only people left were marauders.

Okay, back to what I was saying before: she keeps walking and comes across a town (I think it might have been the capital of Alaska) and finally realizes that civilization wasn’t destroyed at all, and proceeds to finding the kidnapped villagers.

Also, this book has two P.O.V’s: Juneau’s and Miles, Juneau’s love interest. Miles’s dad owns a drug company, and they would get the score of a lifetime if they discover the village’s secret herb recipe. So they chase after her, and eventually Miles and Juneau meet, which I find it really funny. I love their conversations together.

In my opinion, this book was really good, the writing was good, the story was great, and the characters were lovely!

I think this book is appropriate except there is a make-out scene, which I wouldn’t be too worried about. It was kind of an accident.