Of the few books in this style that I have read, only a handful worked. Fortunately for us readers, the two books from Justin Boote and Angel VanAtta, work perfectly. To add to the awesomeness of this story, the apocalypse that happens is not your usual end of the world doom and outcome. With some fantastic character relationships and scene settings, the reader is along for a crazy story. I love that we can read about Jeremy and Abbie’s personal story, their own version of what they are going through and what is happening.
Angel VanAtta’s version of The End of Things As She Knew It has the emails and journals from Abbie’s journals and perspective.
Justin Boote’s version called The End of Things As He Knew It, has the same emails but with Jeremy’s journals and viewpoint.
The way these two wrote the story is just as fascinating as the story itself. Angel wrote the first email in the story… to Justin’s character, Jeremy. When Justin (a.k.a. Jeremy) received the email. He then replied to Angel’s character, Abbie. The ending of the story is Justin’s chapter. The ending was nothing I was prepared for.
Throughout the entire writing of this book, in actual real time, Abbie (Angel) and Jeremy (Justin) emailed back and forth and kept a journal about what they experienced, their fears and wishes, and all that they witnessed.
In my opinion, I think having these two books separate was a good idea. It would have been hard to follow the story if both of the characters’ journals were in one book. Angel and Justin have their own unique voices in writing that come together in harmony. I hope they will collaborate again in the future.
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