I love reading about characters who know how to live off the land and rugged individuals. After The End follows the incredible journey that Juneau and Miles must take to save Juneau’s clan and to improve Miles’s standing with his dad. When Miles overhears his dad talking about the girl being key to everything and about the girl running away, he gets it into his head to go after the girl because it will impress his dad and go a long way to getting Miles into Yale, now that he has been wait-listed. Meanwhile, the other main character, Miles is in LA and working in the mail room of his dad’s pharmaceutical company after being expelled for cheating. Fair warning, there is dog death, but not of Juneau’s dogs that you meet, but of dogs you haven’t met. All is well until one day, Juneau comes back from a hunting expedition with her two dogs, Beckett and Neruda to discover that her clan’s outpost is empty and blood is everywhere. Her clan leads a life that is harmonious with nature. Her clan are among the only people who survived and so, they must watch out for brigands who want to disrupt their way of life. You see, Juneau lives in a world that has been ravaged by World War III and nuclear war. She is a fantastic hunter and is poised to become the next Sage of the clan. Juneau lives in the Alaskan wilds in the wake of Mount Denali (I always thought that was just a Northface jacket, FYI) with her clan. I was entranced by Juneau and Miles, the two main characters and their journey. Friends, I really gobbled After The End up.

After The End has all the hallmarks of a perfect readathon book: first chapters, exciting story, consistent action, and a relatively short page count. If you have a readathon coming up, like the April Dewey 24 Hour Readathon, it would behoove you to put Amy Plum’s After The End on your stack, if you have it in your possession.

After the end by amy plum