Milo and Marcos at the End of the World

By: Kevin Christopher Snipes

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

As natural disasters begin to befall them the closer they become, Milo and Marcos soon begin to wonder if the universe itself is plotting against them in this young adult debut by the playwright and creator of The Two Princes podcast, Kevin Christopher Snipes.

Milo Connolly has managed to survive most of high school without any major disasters, so by his calculations, he’s well past due for some sort of Epic Teenage Catastrophe. Even so, all he wants his senior year is to fly under the radar.

Everything is going exactly as planned until the dreamy and charismatic Marcos Price saunters back into his life after a three-year absence and turns his world upside down. Suddenly Milo is forced to confront the long-buried feelings that he’s kept hidden not only from himself but also from his deeply religious parents and community.

To make matters worse, strange things have been happening around his sleepy Florida town ever since Marcos’s return—sinkholes, blackouts, hailstorms. Mother Nature is out of control, and the closer Milo and Marcos get, the more disasters seem to befall them. In fact, as more and more bizarre occurrences pile up, Milo and Marcos find themselves faced with the unthinkable: Is there a larger, unseen force at play, trying to keep them apart? And if so, is their love worth risking the end of the world?

It was good!

It was good, but I’ll say only good. I enjoyed the story, and I liked that the ending was a realistic depiction of what happens when coming out a lot of the time vs a happily ever after ending. What confused me was the “end of the world” aspect. There was 0 explanation to where all of that came from. First the world is “ending” - tons of natural disasters. Then there’s a hurricane, the end. No explanation as to what caused this.

Frustrating

Milo gave me enough anxiety to last his and my lifetime. I couldn’t wait for the story to end

Milo is insufferable

I want my credit back! Waste of time, half of the characters are insufferable. Part 1.5 is unnecessary, could’ve been done by a 7 page prologue.

Gay religious teen

I wanted to like this book and liked the premise. As someone who grew up as extremely religious and gay I was really hoping that this story would speak to me. unfortunately the main character was way too whiny and inconsistent for me. In one sentence he is committing to his god that he won't act on his gay urges and in the very next sentence he is professing his love for Marcos. That happens several times and we never get to see any of the intellectual struggle that Milo is having to jump from one extreme to the next. The narrator was not good at creating distinct voices for each of the characters.

It's a sweet story

It's a sweet story.
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