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At World's End: An Apocalypse Anthology
A collection of fiction stories about living in apocalyptic worlds.
How does your world end?
How do you protect the one thing everybody wants to eat, including yourself?
--The Last Child by Jennifer Stone
The Veil Falls. Silence Reigns.
--A Gypsy’s Magic by Indra Frost
Let new beginnings emerge from the ashes of destruction.
--Earth’s Renaissance by NJ Scott
No one expects angels to set the world on fire.
--Wings of Rage by Kendra Moreno
Finding love amongst the storms.
--Cataclysm by KZ Riley
The last day of school was never like this…
--A is for Apocalypse, Z is for Zombie by Noel Marks
Between the world and the mist, between hope and madness, between delusion and the truth…the wall is not as solid as you think.
--The Mist by CJ Wunsch
She’s come to save the world. First, she must remember.
--Earth Bound by Suzan Lee
Bound by Blood. Slave to emotion.
--Blood Slave of the Saithes by Elizabeth Clare
How does your world end?
How do you protect the one thing everybody wants to eat, including yourself?
--The Last Child by Jennifer Stone
The Veil Falls. Silence Reigns.
--A Gypsy’s Magic by Indra Frost
Let new beginnings emerge from the ashes of destruction.
--Earth’s Renaissance by NJ Scott
No one expects angels to set the world on fire.
--Wings of Rage by Kendra Moreno
Finding love amongst the storms.
--Cataclysm by KZ Riley
The last day of school was never like this…
--A is for Apocalypse, Z is for Zombie by Noel Marks
Between the world and the mist, between hope and madness, between delusion and the truth…the wall is not as solid as you think.
--The Mist by CJ Wunsch
She’s come to save the world. First, she must remember.
--Earth Bound by Suzan Lee
Bound by Blood. Slave to emotion.
--Blood Slave of the Saithes by Elizabeth Clare
672 pages, Paperback
Published June 19, 2018
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About the author
K.Z. Riley
12 books21 followersKZ Riley is 29 years old and lives near Lubbock, Texas where the wind blows constantly. She has been married to her husband for 7 years and they have two daughters together. She has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember and recently took that love to the next level. First, it started by being an ARC and BETA reader for authors, then she began her own review page to let others know of amazing books she was reading, and finally she came to the ultimate outcome: an author yourself. For several years, she played with the idea of writing a story and even jotted down notes and storylines, but never had the courage to finish a complete to and publish it. It was with the help from the Penned in Ink group that she put her fears aside and decided to go for it.
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June 21, 2018
The Last Child by Jennifer Sone is amazing and left me wanting to know more about the world this author created.Earth Bound by Suzan Lee was an incredibly enjoyable story and I really enjoyed the main characters personality.Earths renaissance by N J Scott had well developed characters and great world building.
July 28, 2018
There's quite a selection of stories in this book. The stories include stories of massive deaths from disease, zombies, World War III and the aftermath, unbreathable air, space aliens, strange creatures, shifters, world-wide fierce storms, fey, climate change, an actual Phoenix and all sorts of other terrible things. It all makes for good reading.
November 3, 2018
Cataclysm
I loved Cataclysm so much. It felt like the biggest tease of something greater. I hope this apocalyptic world is expanded and we get more.
I loved Cataclysm so much. It felt like the biggest tease of something greater. I hope this apocalyptic world is expanded and we get more.
December 17, 2020
Sucker for anthologies. Liked this one a lot.
July 8, 2020
Great anthology, still reading, but for now I give you:
*Blood Slave of the Saithes by Elizabeth Clare
This story was a wonderful surprise for me. It took me a while to start reading this author, and honestly I don't know why because she is amazing and this story is amazing and now that I've started I won't stop until I've read everything she wrote.
This story is about an apocalyptic event, a virus that wiped out two thirds of humanity and aliens who come to Earth, seemingly to help, before taking over and enslaving humans. And yes, you may think this is not so new, but it is very new in the way the author imagined it. There are some details in this story that are so original and so interesting that I was mesmerised from beginning to the end. I can't say more about this because of spoilers but I loved it so much! The plot is well paced and the story line is incredibly interesting.
The characters are fantastic. Trinity, a determined human from the Resistance, then Nax'ir, an alien Prince, seemingly reserved and unfeeling, Ori'on, the ruthless alien Emperor, Anthony, a human attache assigned to the Emperor, and an array of very interesting side characters. I loved them all, even the mean ones, well those I loved to hate, because all of them are so well developed into their own individual personalities.
I am so glad I finally started reading this author because she is amazing and I can't wait to read more. I hope this story will be re-published, but if you have this anthology, don't wait, read it because it is absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed every minute of it.
*Wings of Rage by Kendra Moreno
This is a dark dystopian story with no so happy ending, but an ending that gives a different kind of hope. This is a story of a girl who dared to dream about a better world, a hope of which she did get, albeit not how she expected.
Genesis is the main character, and we get a short glimpse into her life after the apocalypse and during the final moments of destruction of humanity. She is a dreamer, and barely an adult. She has powers but shies away from them. She has little, wants impossible and tries to break down the metaphysical cage she is in.
It is quite an interesting journey, and perhaps a sad one, but what is to be expected from a story themed at the end of the world? I loved it anyway because it is beautifully written, characters are wonderfully developed and consistent, and I love the main character's growth.
*Blood Slave of the Saithes by Elizabeth Clare
This story was a wonderful surprise for me. It took me a while to start reading this author, and honestly I don't know why because she is amazing and this story is amazing and now that I've started I won't stop until I've read everything she wrote.
This story is about an apocalyptic event, a virus that wiped out two thirds of humanity and aliens who come to Earth, seemingly to help, before taking over and enslaving humans. And yes, you may think this is not so new, but it is very new in the way the author imagined it. There are some details in this story that are so original and so interesting that I was mesmerised from beginning to the end. I can't say more about this because of spoilers but I loved it so much! The plot is well paced and the story line is incredibly interesting.
The characters are fantastic. Trinity, a determined human from the Resistance, then Nax'ir, an alien Prince, seemingly reserved and unfeeling, Ori'on, the ruthless alien Emperor, Anthony, a human attache assigned to the Emperor, and an array of very interesting side characters. I loved them all, even the mean ones, well those I loved to hate, because all of them are so well developed into their own individual personalities.
I am so glad I finally started reading this author because she is amazing and I can't wait to read more. I hope this story will be re-published, but if you have this anthology, don't wait, read it because it is absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed every minute of it.
*Wings of Rage by Kendra Moreno
This is a dark dystopian story with no so happy ending, but an ending that gives a different kind of hope. This is a story of a girl who dared to dream about a better world, a hope of which she did get, albeit not how she expected.
Genesis is the main character, and we get a short glimpse into her life after the apocalypse and during the final moments of destruction of humanity. She is a dreamer, and barely an adult. She has powers but shies away from them. She has little, wants impossible and tries to break down the metaphysical cage she is in.
It is quite an interesting journey, and perhaps a sad one, but what is to be expected from a story themed at the end of the world? I loved it anyway because it is beautifully written, characters are wonderfully developed and consistent, and I love the main character's growth.
October 28, 2018
This was a fun collection of apocalypse stories. And I don't mean they are comical, but that they kept me entertained.
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