The Girl at the End of the World

By: Richard Levesque

Narrated by: LC Kane

Her fight begins the day the world ends.

Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she's made the best of her parents' divorce. But in one way, she's special: on her 15th birthday, a fast-moving plague wipes out everyone she's ever known, yet somehow it passes her by.

Her family dead, alone in a corpse-strewn metropolis, she has no choice but to survive. She needs food, shelter, a safe place to sleep. She discovers that an ordinary girl is capable of extraordinary things, and that she's more resilient than she imagined. Even so, she wishes more than anything that she could just find another survivor.

Unfortunately for Scarlett, not everyone who survived the plague is looking for companionship. And she's about to find out just how difficult survival really is.

©2013 Richard Levesque (P)2015 Richard Levesque

Great book! No zombies. Not really.

A fungal virus quickly kills off almost everyone on the planet, except for a tiny few who are immune. The victims have psychotic episodes and often act aggressively but they die shortly afterwards, before sprouting mushrooms from their heads.

The story moves rather briskly along, sometimes too briskly; I had to go back several times looking for why she was going to the observatory. If you blink, you miss it. I didn't think there would be much more to it than her wondering around by herself, but later things take a sudden violent turn. Not too violent, its for young adults after all. The story was original and I couldn't predict what was coming.

Scarlett was a character you liked. Her internal thoughts relatable, that's how you would think too! In she beginning she thinks things though, cries, but quickly accepts the situation, even her predicted death. Chad comes along later on. Too bad he is worse than useless though.

The narrator has an "attractive" voice to listen to.

Full stars for a young adult story.

Once I got started I couldn't put it down

Once I got started I couldn't put it down. Kept my interest. Look forward to reading more

I think I just read a sceenplay for the movie.

Have you listened to any of LC Kane’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

She is always great.

Any additional comments?

Ok so I listened to this book almost straight through. Its good. Its worth listening too. I just wanted a little bit more. First off, like a lot of books these days, this one reads like a screenplay. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the movie is out soon as it would make a great movie. My one gripe would be on the survival aspects of the movie,... er.... book. I wish the part dealing with survival, and meeting basic needs had been longer and explored a bit deeper. The book is about a young girl who discovered her natural abilities to survive and survive smartly. The book hints at this. In one part the main character breaks a glass window and is then mad at herself because she knows she can't get hurt because there are no more hospitals. Good stuff! There are several parts of the book where her thought process is shown and it is really good! On the cover art she is shown standing with her motorcycle overlooking LA. More of that please! What a cool story. Otherwise it is a fun, adventurous story, easy to follow, a good quick listen.

felt like the beginning when it ended

The plot line is so simple I don't dare state it or I would give it all away.

And that is just it. This is not at all what I expected for an apocalyptic tale. It was all very interesting, and completely possible, but everything that happened felt as if it should have been the lead up to the real story. I gasped when the next chapter was "epilogue." Over? That's it? I was waiting for the story to start.

The girl

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Girl at the End of the World?

This is a Young Adult, post-apocalyptic novel! It's not often readers get to witness the world end through the narration of The Girl at the End of the World, you are there to experience Scarlett's shock and disbelief as the world as she knows it simply ends. Lots of excitement from beginning to end.