The exact reason why many reviewers disliked this book is why I loved it. The first half is very different from the second half. The entire book felt like real life to me, rather than a planned plot. It was refreshing to read a book that didn't have an obvious path. I enjoyed the entire thing, but I most enjoyed the feeling of realness. In real life, everything doesn't happen for a reason, everything doesn't have a place in a story arc, everything isn't predictable!
I had complicated feelings about the main character. I'm not sure that I actually liked her. I enjoyed her, and I often agreed with her. I rooted for her. I don't think I'd be her friend. I enjoyed that she was a realistic character with flaws. Sometimes the characters whose stories I like most are the characters who are least like me.
I highly recommend this book and eagerly await the next one!

2.5 stars*** this book ended better than i expected, but i felt like getting to that ending was such a drag, and the ending was still quite predictable. it was all just okay but nothing that really *shocked* me :/
ALSO! i think it was just cuz i was listening on audiobook but the time jumps really fucked me up at first and it took me almost until the very end to figure out what was going on which really messed up my reading/listening experience

Tense and terrifying. A great post-apocalyptic read. (Full review at The Book Mark.

J'ai tout simplement adoré ce premier tome. Les personnages sont vraiment attachants. Ce roman a su me captiver dès les premières pages : chose rare, je l'ai tout simplement dévoré ! Au programme : de l'action et des moments stressants, des rebondissements et des découvertes, mais aussi une jolie relation, en bref : un très bon roman ! J'espère que le tome 2 sera tout aussi bon !
https://spoilersbymelo.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/in-the-after-de-demitria-lunetta-premier-roman-coup-de-coeur-de-2016/

Loved it!

I enjoyed this book. My husband and oldest son have also read it even though oddly enough my youngest son is the one who picked it out last fall at our library's book sale!

This is a good YA book. It's a bit simplistic but I attribute it to being YA. It's an interesting take on a dystopian life.

I enjoyed Amy and Baby, the two main characters. I also thought the beginning of the book was more interesting as you learn about how life in the After is like and what it takes to survive.

Amy finds herself alone without friends or family in a world where creatures have taken over earth and feed on people. In order to survive you have to be quiet and learn to live in the shadows. Amy is an early teen when the world changes. She finds a toddler in a grocery store and decides to take her in. The two of them live on their own hoping to survive.

Amy is nearly 17 when she discovers a place where others who have survived have started a colony of sorts. At first it seems like paradise without any creatures, food, and other people. But she quickly begins to learn it's not all it appears to be.

Great page turner! Did not think I would like it, but it was intense.

Reminded me of the movie the Quiet Place for the first half. Decent YA disptopia. 3.5

I picked this book up after I ordered it in my January book order just because it was lunch, I forgot my book at home, and it was on our "new book" shelf. Quickly, I found myself captivated by the book, wanting to keep turning the pages to find out what happened next. It's a quick read filled with all kinds of interesting (yet sometimes predictable) twists and turns. It reminds me a bit of my favorite book this year, The Fifth Wave, but it has it's own unique voice. It will definitely be one I will add to my book talks on Tuesday. I look forward to recommending this one to students, and it will definitely be one where I will pick up the sequels and read them. That's always the mark of a good YA book to me.

When I first started reading this book, I kept drawing similarities between the Aliens and Zombies, they are mindless flesh craving beasts. I nearly stopped reading because I kept thinking how did these stupid creatures manage to fly space ships into earth and take over a world? It was really starting to get on my nerves, until the Protagonist asked the same questions. Then I was gripped because obviously this was part of the plot.

I have mentioned before I am not a fan of Sci-fi and I am thinking now after adding two Sci-fi books to my favourite list, I have to change my position on this. I was stuck on the edge of my seat not wanting to put this novel down. It was absolutely amazing, It was not at all predictable, I had no clue what the creatures were, where they came from and how they managed to take over the world.

Now to the plot, Amy is watching T.v on her own when the world is taken over by Aliens, It happens quickly and horribly, most of the human race is wiped out in hours. Lucky for Amy her father is an eco warrior who insisted on a garden and solar panels and her mother was a government worker that insisted on an electric fence to keep her family safe.

While the world ends Amy crawls up in her room and reads trying to escape her new world, behind the safety of her electric fence. Which I could relate to, since I probably would do the same thing.

After a while her food starts to run out and Amy needs to leave the sanctuary of her house and start scavenging, she learns quickly that the creatures have hyper sensitive hearing and will stop at nothing to gain fresh meat as soon as they hear you. On one trip she runs into a little girl who is bleeding and scared she is only about three years old, Amy takes her home and calls her baby.

Three years later, Amy and Baby are still battling to survive in the After, (The story is split up into three parts, the Before, The After (surviving with the creatures) and the now (living in the safety of the compound).) They have not spoken in three years and they live a life of silence.

When Things start to get worse after a marauding Gang take over the safety of their house, Amy and Baby are forced to leave, when they are captured by a military ship and sent to a survivor compound, but is it really safer than in the After?.

I was drawn to this book by Its cover, It looked Creepy and just the type of dystopian I love. Harpercollins Australia were kind enough to send me a copy for review. In the After really makes you think, about how children can survive on their own in terrible conditions, how Humanity as a whole would react in such destruction, (will the survivors stick together to try to make the most out of life, or will they turn on each other and try to take what they can?) This is what I love about dystopias, how people will react at the end of the world and what will happen after?

This was a brilliant novel by Demitria Lunetta and I cannot wait to read what she writes next. If you loved across the universe, this book is for you.