A review by erinarkin20
After the End by Amy Plum
3.0
2.5 for this one.
Juneau has grown up in the wilderness of Alaska and has always been told that WWIII destroyed the outside world. She has also grown up with the understanding that she will eventually replace the leader of their clan, Whit, due to the fact that she is a strong conjurer.
After coming back from a hunting trip that Whit sent her out on, Juneau finds the camp destroyed and decides she will find them. This decision takes Juneau to the city where she realizes everything she grew up thinking is wrong. There was never a WWIII now she has to navigate a world that she knows nothing about.
Miles always seems to be in trouble and his dad is always having to get him out of it. This time, getting caught cheating on a test creates a larger issue, the Yale Admissions office has decided to put his enrollment on hold and his father is definitely not happy.
Juneau’s and Miles’ paths cross in Miles’ attempts to regain his father’s trust. Strangely enough he thinks going against everything his father has told him is the way to do it. When his dad is away due to a work issue, Miles goes through his office and finds out his dad’s organization is looking for a very specific teenage girl. Guess who that is…
The story uses alternating chapters to give the reader both Juneau’s and Miles’ POV and Plum does a good job of showing how each of them react and interact with the other. Through the different POV’s we follow them both as they try to find out just exactly what is going on.
I honestly had a hard time getting into this story. It is an interesting premise and I thought the story had a lot of potential. The challenge for me was getting into the characters and this is something I absolutely have to have in order to get into a story and for some reason I just couldn't find that connection with this book. With that said, it may actually just be a case of “It’s me, not the book.”
This book definitely has a lot of action and for sure kept me turning the pages to see what was going to happen next. I don’t want to say a lot about what happens, mostly because there are a number of twists and I don’t want to ruin the story for anyone. One thing to note is that there is a major cliffhanger with this book and I always have an issue with that. If you are someone who doesn't really want to wait a year to find out what happened, you may want to hold off on reading until closer to book two’s release. Overall this was just ok for me but if you find the summary interesting, you might like this one.
Juneau has grown up in the wilderness of Alaska and has always been told that WWIII destroyed the outside world. She has also grown up with the understanding that she will eventually replace the leader of their clan, Whit, due to the fact that she is a strong conjurer.
After coming back from a hunting trip that Whit sent her out on, Juneau finds the camp destroyed and decides she will find them. This decision takes Juneau to the city where she realizes everything she grew up thinking is wrong. There was never a WWIII now she has to navigate a world that she knows nothing about.
Miles always seems to be in trouble and his dad is always having to get him out of it. This time, getting caught cheating on a test creates a larger issue, the Yale Admissions office has decided to put his enrollment on hold and his father is definitely not happy.
Juneau’s and Miles’ paths cross in Miles’ attempts to regain his father’s trust. Strangely enough he thinks going against everything his father has told him is the way to do it. When his dad is away due to a work issue, Miles goes through his office and finds out his dad’s organization is looking for a very specific teenage girl. Guess who that is…
The story uses alternating chapters to give the reader both Juneau’s and Miles’ POV and Plum does a good job of showing how each of them react and interact with the other. Through the different POV’s we follow them both as they try to find out just exactly what is going on.
I honestly had a hard time getting into this story. It is an interesting premise and I thought the story had a lot of potential. The challenge for me was getting into the characters and this is something I absolutely have to have in order to get into a story and for some reason I just couldn't find that connection with this book. With that said, it may actually just be a case of “It’s me, not the book.”
This book definitely has a lot of action and for sure kept me turning the pages to see what was going to happen next. I don’t want to say a lot about what happens, mostly because there are a number of twists and I don’t want to ruin the story for anyone. One thing to note is that there is a major cliffhanger with this book and I always have an issue with that. If you are someone who doesn't really want to wait a year to find out what happened, you may want to hold off on reading until closer to book two’s release. Overall this was just ok for me but if you find the summary interesting, you might like this one.