The Quiet at the End of the World: TikTok made me buy it!

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What do you do? If you know you're the last of your kind, and nothing you do matters or will be remembered once you're gone. How can you spend your days in harmony, when you know that every hour represents the thousands of years of human civilisation behind you? With those generations looking over your shoulder, are you ever truly yourself, or are you just the culmination of their decisions? How can you be an individual without looking ahead or behind you? Should you even try? Those are the questions that Lowrie and Shen are asking each other in The Quiet at the End of the World.

In THE END OF THE WORLD RUNNING CLUB Edgar Hill ran 550 miles after an apocalypse to try and find his family. Their idyllic life is torn apart when a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity’s entire existence. Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide who to save and who to sacrifice . . . If I thought that life wasn’t worth living, it was because I hadn’t found the way I could change things yet. Great review. I do like dystopian/sci-fi books and this one has been everywhere these days. Will definately be looking this one up Lost meets The Hunger Games in the thrilling new young adult novel from C.L. Taylor, the Sunday Times and million-copy bestselling author.Her books have sold over fifty thousand copies in the UK alone, and been translated into five languages worldwide. She has been described as ‘Gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘A strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly.

She did it again! As I loved The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, I had high hopes for Lauren James's new book. And it's so good!! You don’t remember the perfect things when you think about the people you love. You think of the them things. The little habits or guilty pleasures or secret flaws that only they have. Lauren James' writing style is perfect for this sort of book. It's conversational, contemporary, and talks about science in an accessible way. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of Year 2017 There’s great representation here too - bi and trans, deaf, Chinese characters. So good to see so much.A controlled yet elegantly light touch makes The Quiet at the End of the World a credible, hugely rewarding read.”– SFX Magazine It’s a huge burden, one that begins to increasingly weigh on Lowrie who fears not only failing to keep the flame of sentient life alight, but is afraid of what happens when their parents, who are into their 80s, die and she and her best friend are left alone in a great big, empty world.

Lauren James takes her time to explore what humanity would do with tech at their fingertips once people can no longer have children. At first, they hope it's a blip. It'll all be over soon. How could it not? Then, they throw their entire budget at science, trying to rectify the issue. Finally...I won't give it away, but I thought it was so well done. No one knows exactly where it came from – whether it mutated from animal disease or was somehow caused by pollution – but within weeks it had spread across the planet. The symptoms weren’t even that bad, nothing worse than a mild flu” I read Station Eleven a few years ago, and really came away from that novel with a sense of just how much there still is to live for when you've lost everything. As a reader I feel like there are so many stories that hadn't been told in that kind of setting - after the angst of the apocalypse, when you're not necessarily trying to rebuild the world but live a good, happy life in the time you have left. So as a writer, I didn't want to write a dystopia full of villains and evil governments (there's enough of that in real life). I just wanted to write about humanity in isolation. But I know now what I have to do. I can’t sit here, quiet at the end of the world. I have to fill the world with noise. I have to shout and fight and give everything I have to make sure this isn’t the end.” (P. 318)I hope you enjoyed this review! Honestly I loved it so much. Have you read the Loneliest Girl? You should do!

Her other novels include The Next Together series, the dyslexia-friendly novella series The Watchmaker and the Duke and serialised online novel An Unauthorised Fan Treatise.

Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - My next book, The Quiet at the End of the World, is about Lowrie and Shen, the youngest people alive in a time after humans go infertile. They have grown up knowing that they are going to watch their species face extinction, and spend their time exploring the crumbling remains of civilisation, treasure-hunting for things their ancestors have left behind - objects like the ones in the pictures. Lowrie is far from perfect. She admits her flaws right from the beginning, but she knows her worth too. Handy with tools, and openly bisexual, she constantly reflects on who she is. Her relationship with Shen is nicely complicated too. There’s just the right balance of sweetness and edge. The Twists For all the many and varied ways that humanity could slash its collective throat, the trip to the apocalypse almost always looks eerily the same. I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail for a murder I did not commit.