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Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. He has no friends at college and his former high school friends have forgotten about him, he doesn’t have a boyfriend or anyone to hook up with, and an annoying hot TA gave him a crappy grade. But in a blink of an eye everything changes when people start transforming into zombie-like killers. Parker finds himself fighting for his life with the annoying TA Adam by his side. 

This was a surprisingly great post-apocalyptic romance with a dash of werewolf thrown in. This was a very action packed story with Parker and Adam trying to survive a cross country drive in search of Parker’s family. I was also surprised that this is only told from Parker’s POV but Andrews’ did a great job at bringing Adam’s character and personality alive through that perspective. I never felt left out because we didn’t have Adam’s perspective, which is surprising because I prefer multiple POVs. 

I will be honest, it took me a while to get into this story at first because I found Parker to be a bit annoying. But he grew on me as the story progressed and he lost his need to be perfect. Parker was an anxious character and we see him struggle with everything that is happening but we do see him become more confident in himself by the end. Adam was the opposite of Parker in that he is calm and level-headed. I enjoyed that these two had different personalities and were very different characters. 

“What isn’t crazy now? We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Falling in love with you is the one amazing thing that’s come out of this mess. The one thing that makes it all worth it.”

The relationship between these two takes a little while since they are busy trying to survive at first. Once their relationship does start though these two fall hard and fast for each other. I loved how they leaned on each other and protected each other. I may have been slow to like these two at first, but once their story really got going I got sucked in and couldn’t put it down. 

At the end we see Parker and Adam coming to terms with this new world and realizing that there most likely isn’t help coming. It will be interesting to see what happens next for them now that they have a rough plan in place. 

TW: gore; grief; past death of parents and sister; medical experimentation without consent

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