Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sending me an eARC for an honest review of this book. 

This was about exactly what I expected it to be. Nothing more and nothing less. If you like apocalyptic stories or maybe you're new to the genre I think this would be a great place to start. It's unique in some of the premises, like the backdrop of an abandoned bookstore and are main character Liz who might seem a lot softer than a typical character in a story like this who's been hardened and has to survive. I like that contrast and the premise of the disaster that brought on this end of civilization as we know it was interesting as well. I also thought it was interesting how the story was told. How we flip flop from present day to the past and also little bits of other people's story that's written in a book our main character has. 

While there's a lot of promising aspects and I had enjoyment while reading this overall I felt like the story itself and the relationship between our two main characters just felt very basic and predictable. Neither I felt like had any crazy character development and growth and what little there was felt very rushed.  I just didn't connect with the characters or story as much as I would have wanted to.