The Apocalypse Seven

A Novel

By: Gene Doucette

Narrated by: Zeno Robinson, Erin Bennett, Kiff Vandenheuvel, Grace Rolek, Farah Merani, Juliette Goglia, Will Collyer

Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . .

The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn’t alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn’t explain where everyone went. It doesn’t explain how the city became overgrown with vegetation in the space of a night. Or how wild animals with no fear of humans came to roam the streets.

Add freakish weather to the mix, swings of temperature that spawn tornadoes one minute and snowstorms the next, and it seems things can’t get much weirder. Yet even as a handful of new survivors appear—Paul, a preacher as quick with a gun as a Bible verse; Win, a young professional with a horse; Bethany, a thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent; and Ananda, an MIT astrophysics adjunct—life in Cambridge, Massachusetts gets stranger and stranger.

The self-styled Apocalypse Seven are tired of questions with no answers. Tired of being hunted by things seen and unseen. Now, armed with curiosity, desperation, a shotgun, and a bow, they become the hunters. And that’s when things truly get weird.

Good idea but pedestrian ending.

Great, mysterious start with more questions than answers. Really interesting characters introduced but after the midway mark the story sort of peters out and all the character stuff is sidelined for an unfocused ending.

Some things don’t add up

Things just don’t add up. Maybe I’m just a nerd. Plenty of details were lacking.

The performance

I listened to the last third of it twice, but some bits of it still don’t hang together in my mind. But I enjoyed it anyway. I really like Gene Doucette’s work.

Awesome apocalypse- nice twist - sprinkles of science fiction

I’m not going to give any plot away, you know it’s going to be an apocalypse story. It’s well told, good characters, well paced and I didn’t feel the need to skip any of it.
I love the mysteries and resolutions. The personal dynamics felt real.
10/10 would recommend

Destined to be a classic!

Funny and clever a new spin on post apocalyptic sci-fi! Really enjoyed this book very easy to follow and never dull.