🔥 1-Sentence Hook
One minute, she’s working at a bar; the next minute, multiple American cities are gone. Casual Tuesday.
🔍 Quick Stats
Genre: Apocalypse, Cult Energy, and Vengeance
Narration Style: Solo narration
Narrator: Stacey Glemboski
Length: About 37 hours (you’re in this for a while)
📊 Dad Score™
- Plot Impact: 🔥🔥🔥
Solid apocalypse setup, steady tension, not reinventing the genre but doing it competently. - Narrator Swagger: 🎧🎧
Gets the job done. Doesn’t elevate it, doesn’t ruin it. Professional apocalypse voice. - Chore Compatibility: 🧹🧹🧹🧹
Very good for repetitive, brain-off chores. Dishes, yard work, existential dread. - Tear Risk: 🧱
No tears. Emotional distance maintained.
đź“Ľ Final Verdict
✔️ Yes — if you like end-of-the-world stories with cults, revenge arcs, and some awkward romance sprinkled in like seasoning you didn’t ask for.
🧠The Story (Spoiler-Free)
This is classic apocalypse fiction: nukes drop, society collapses immediately, and bad people quickly reveal they’ve been waiting for this moment their whole lives.
There’s tension, violence, and a lot of decisions driven by emotion instead of logic — which tracks, honestly, given the whole “nuclear annihilation” thing.
The romance is… there.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it makes you pause mid-task and say, “Really? Now?”
🎧 The Narrator
Stacey Glemboski is solid but not flashy.
Clear delivery, consistent tone, no wild swings.
This isn’t a narration that steals the show — it supports the story and stays out of the way, which is fine for a long listen like this.
🎤 The Listening Experience
Best used for:
- Simple, repetitive chores
- Long drives
- Tasks where you want story momentum but don’t need to track every detail
This is very much a one-listen-and-done experience.
I didn’t hate it.
I also don’t feel the urge to revisit it.
🧪 Final Thoughts
Good book.
Good writing.
Solid apocalypse vibes.
Not cracking my top ten, but it did exactly what it promised and didn’t waste my time, which already puts it above average in this genre.