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Bunker #2
Meet Me at World's End
A killer comet speeds for Earth, big enough to wipe out all life and choke the atmosphere for a century. When the news breaks, soft-spoken freshman Charlotte Hartland gets caught in a flood of panicked students on her college campus—until a black SUV swoops in to extract her.
Charlotte’s powerful grandfather has saved her a cryosleep berth at the Bunker Reservation Project, a hastily formed effort to save humanity from extinction.
When the program begins to unravel, Charlotte will have to fight for her place in the future. But the only person who can help her is a hot-headed construction worker with a grudge against her family—and the clock is counting down to disaster.
Charlotte’s powerful grandfather has saved her a cryosleep berth at the Bunker Reservation Project, a hastily formed effort to save humanity from extinction.
When the program begins to unravel, Charlotte will have to fight for her place in the future. But the only person who can help her is a hot-headed construction worker with a grudge against her family—and the clock is counting down to disaster.
309 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 15, 2020
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Jordan Rivet
36 books529 followersJordan Rivet is an American author of YA science fiction and fantasy featuring determined heroines, vivid worlds, and daring missions. Originally from Arizona, she lives in Hong Kong with her husband.
Jordan's YA fantasy series include Steel and Fire, Empire of Talents, The Fire Queen’s Apprentice, and Art Mages of Lure. Her science fiction includes Wake Me After the Apocalypse, The Seabound Chronicles, and The Lost Clone.
Jordan's YA fantasy series include Steel and Fire, Empire of Talents, The Fire Queen’s Apprentice, and Art Mages of Lure. Her science fiction includes Wake Me After the Apocalypse, The Seabound Chronicles, and The Lost Clone.
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May 28, 2024
3.5 stars. We spent way too much time leading up to the cryo-sleep and exactly one page devoted to "after". If I had to go into the future with some of these people, I'd say humanity was doomed.
June 13, 2025
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August 22, 2021
I loved this book. I read it and fell in Love. I definitely liked it better than the first, but part of that is the world was built and this just developed it and let the characters live in it. I thought the pacing in this book was far better and more consistent than in the first. This book also had me far more on the edge of my seat throughout it. I was frantically trying to guess what would happen next but continued to be wrong and change at every turn.
Once again Jordan Rivet has proven why she is one of the best authors I have ever read and is my personal number 2. I could read her books all night, and in fact, I have, on several occasions. I will never not read everything she writes. Of course I will always suggest that you read all her other work. If you enjoy more distopians, her Seabound books are fantastic. If you enjoy more fantasy books, I Highly Highly Highly suggest you read either Duel of Fire or Spy in the Silver Palace. Jordan Rivet is one of the best fantasy writers out there. Do yourself a favor and read as much Jordan Rivet as you can get your hands on.
Once again Jordan Rivet has proven why she is one of the best authors I have ever read and is my personal number 2. I could read her books all night, and in fact, I have, on several occasions. I will never not read everything she writes. Of course I will always suggest that you read all her other work. If you enjoy more distopians, her Seabound books are fantastic. If you enjoy more fantasy books, I Highly Highly Highly suggest you read either Duel of Fire or Spy in the Silver Palace. Jordan Rivet is one of the best fantasy writers out there. Do yourself a favor and read as much Jordan Rivet as you can get your hands on.
January 12, 2023
Really loved it and I can't wait to dive into the final book!
May 1, 2020
Meet Me at World's End doesn't continue where book one left off. At first I thought I was listening to a new series until the story sounded familiar. It made it feel like a new and exciting series! Book 2 takes place during the same time as book one, but in a different bunker. This book gives you a feel of how things may play out in the future of this post-apocalyptic series! I can't wait for book 3! Glad to see Kate Marcin continues to narrate the series! She does a fantastic job!
February 7, 2023
"Meet me at world's end" ist ein Spinoff der Bunker-Reihe. Wer tatsächlich Joannas Geschichte gelesen hat und sich gefragt hat: "Warte mal, wie ist das damals bei BRP wirklich gewesen? Wer hatte die Idee dahinter? Und wie sind sie in den Idaho-Bunker gekommen? Sollte es nicht ein ganzes Buch darüber geben?" der wird sich freuen.
Mir persönlich hätte es auch gereicht, wenn Joanna mit Levi die Kohorte getroffen und jemand das in ein paar Sätzen erwähnt hätte.
Stattdessen gibt es hier die Story von Charlotte Hartland, Enkeltochter des zivilen Direktors von BRP. Direkt am Tag, als der Kometeneinschlag verkündet wird, lässt Grandpa sie von seinem Bodyguard einsammeln und in Sicherheit bringen und durch Charlottes Perspektive wird dann das Innere von BRP beleuchtet. Sie selbst bleibt lange Zeit sehr passiv, versucht sich nützlich zu machen, trägt aber nichts wirklich zu irgendwas bei. Aktiver (aber nicht unbedingt wichtiger) ist der Handwerker Jack, der mit und dank seines Bruders Kyle am Bunkerprojekt arbeitet, gegen das Versprechen, dafür selbst gerettet zu werden. Nicht sehr überraschend ist das natürlich eine Lüge ...
Auch wenn ich das Geschehen an sich immer noch spannend fand, hätte ich diesen Blickwinkel nicht gebraucht und hätte mich mehr gefreut, etwas in der Zukunft zu lesen. Stattdessen spielt wirklich nur der Epilog nach dem Kometeneinschlag und wir wissen jetzt, wie Levi es in die Zukunft geschafft hat. Dennoch ist er noch weit entfernt von dem Punkt, in dem er in Band 1 auf Joanna trifft, also ein Rückschritt?
Ich hoffe, in Band 3 wird es etwas näher an Band 1 weitergehen und dadurch wieder besser. Joanna allein fand ich auch wesentlich glaubwürdiger, spannender und besser zu lesen als die Liebesgeschichte zwischen Jack und Charlotte, die ungefähr das gesamte Buch über nichts anderes tun als zu streiten, damit sie sich ja nicht ihre Gefühle eingestehen müssen. Enemies to lovers geht irgendwie anders und weniger nervig ...
Eine halbe Leseempfehlung von mir, weil man vermutlich Band 3 ohne diesen nicht lesen kann. Es bei Band 1 zu belassen, reicht aber auch.
Mir persönlich hätte es auch gereicht, wenn Joanna mit Levi die Kohorte getroffen und jemand das in ein paar Sätzen erwähnt hätte.
Stattdessen gibt es hier die Story von Charlotte Hartland, Enkeltochter des zivilen Direktors von BRP. Direkt am Tag, als der Kometeneinschlag verkündet wird, lässt Grandpa sie von seinem Bodyguard einsammeln und in Sicherheit bringen und durch Charlottes Perspektive wird dann das Innere von BRP beleuchtet. Sie selbst bleibt lange Zeit sehr passiv, versucht sich nützlich zu machen, trägt aber nichts wirklich zu irgendwas bei. Aktiver (aber nicht unbedingt wichtiger) ist der Handwerker Jack, der mit und dank seines Bruders Kyle am Bunkerprojekt arbeitet, gegen das Versprechen, dafür selbst gerettet zu werden. Nicht sehr überraschend ist das natürlich eine Lüge ...
Auch wenn ich das Geschehen an sich immer noch spannend fand, hätte ich diesen Blickwinkel nicht gebraucht und hätte mich mehr gefreut, etwas in der Zukunft zu lesen. Stattdessen spielt wirklich nur der Epilog nach dem Kometeneinschlag und wir wissen jetzt, wie Levi es in die Zukunft geschafft hat. Dennoch ist er noch weit entfernt von dem Punkt, in dem er in Band 1 auf Joanna trifft, also ein Rückschritt?
Ich hoffe, in Band 3 wird es etwas näher an Band 1 weitergehen und dadurch wieder besser. Joanna allein fand ich auch wesentlich glaubwürdiger, spannender und besser zu lesen als die Liebesgeschichte zwischen Jack und Charlotte, die ungefähr das gesamte Buch über nichts anderes tun als zu streiten, damit sie sich ja nicht ihre Gefühle eingestehen müssen. Enemies to lovers geht irgendwie anders und weniger nervig ...
Eine halbe Leseempfehlung von mir, weil man vermutlich Band 3 ohne diesen nicht lesen kann. Es bei Band 1 zu belassen, reicht aber auch.
May 15, 2021
Sometimes, The Apocalypse Comes After The End…
In two separate parts of the country, Jack and Charlotte both find out about the giant comet hurtling towards the earth, threatening humanity. But both are helping to restore humanity in the future. With hard work, organization, and a little bit of romance, Jack and Charlotte work together to survive the comet strike and rebuild the earth 200 years after. But, with the BRP program corrupted and the designated comet strike eeking near, Jack and Charlotte are going to have to do way more than originally planned in order to get the bunker ready in time for the comet…
This book was an amazing sequel to the first book Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse. The book actually doesn’t pick up where the first book left off. It starts at the same time as the first when the comet is first discovered. This was mainly because the author needed to introduce new characters to the story with a backstory. However, this book actually just about ends at the same time as the first one did. This allows the third book to take place in the present (considering if that book one and two were backstories to lead up to the third book).
One thing Jordan Rivet does differently in Meet Me At World’s End from Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse is how she tells the story. In Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse, Rivet starts off through Joanna’s perspective in the present. Then in every chapter, you are put in Joanna’s perspective in the present or flashbacks to the past to learn more about Joanna. In Meet Me At World’s End, Rivet keeps the reader in the present for almost the entire book with one or two small flashbacks. Believe it or not, Rivet does this for a specific reason. Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse is the first book of the series. Therefore, one would usually expect a long exposition in order to get into the book and learn all of the characters and background. However, using the technique Rivet did for Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse, the reader jumps right into the action and will read through the exposition in order to get to the action in the next chapter. However, since Meet Me At World’s End is the second book of the series, the author doesn’t need to introduce the reader right into the action because if the reader has already read the first book and has taken interest in the next, the reader is already going to want to get right into the action within the second book. So the reader will read through the exposition just to get to the rising action and find out what actually happens. With this in mind, we can clearly see why Rivet organized her books this way.
*WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*
Throughout the book, the BRP program slowly becomes corrupted and deviates away from the original program. Since Grandpa Heartland could no longer control the other bunkers, the program was essentially failing. In addition, the program was extremely unfair since the construction workers were promised tanks, but would never get any in the end. Jack and Charlotte saw how unfair and corrupted BRP was and decided to take action. They did this by proposing a lottery to the entire cohort. Anyone who was willing to give up their spot could enter the lottery or stay behind and guard the bunker until the comet hit. This would allow for the construction workers, including Jack, to get a chance to get a cryo tank. Unfortunately, Jack never got a cryo tank from the lottery, but he was still happy to be working. He and the rest of the people in the bunker were happy because they had fixed BRP as a group. Rivet uses the phrase “bleeding away” (Rivet, 279) to describe the fall of the old BRP program. This little bit of language in the story can describe how corrupt and unfair the original BRP program was. Some of this unfairness even came from Grandpa Heartland. Grandpa Heartland saw that “Most of the soldiers and workers are male. On the whole, they come from a particular demographic. Bringing in too many of them would skew the future population-and, not in a desirable direction” (Rivet, 236). Even Grandpa Heartland contributed to the unfairness present in the program, lying to the construction workers and promising them survival for their much-needed labor. But in the end, they would never get to survive. Charlotte always looked up to Grandpa Heartland and now she saw the real person within him, and the same reason why Charlotte's mother refused to go with Grandpa Heartland for safety.
*WARNING SPOILER SECTION END*
Overall, this was a fantastic book. I always found myself trying to predict the outcome of the book. There was so much action within it, and the romance between the main characters only added to it! I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Apocalyptic settings and end-of-the-world events such as this. Another great aspect, one could actually read books 1 and 2 out of order because of how the author set them up. All in all, this book was a marvelous follow-up to the first book. I rate this a 10/10 and would very highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys action, and a little bit of romance.
In two separate parts of the country, Jack and Charlotte both find out about the giant comet hurtling towards the earth, threatening humanity. But both are helping to restore humanity in the future. With hard work, organization, and a little bit of romance, Jack and Charlotte work together to survive the comet strike and rebuild the earth 200 years after. But, with the BRP program corrupted and the designated comet strike eeking near, Jack and Charlotte are going to have to do way more than originally planned in order to get the bunker ready in time for the comet…
This book was an amazing sequel to the first book Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse. The book actually doesn’t pick up where the first book left off. It starts at the same time as the first when the comet is first discovered. This was mainly because the author needed to introduce new characters to the story with a backstory. However, this book actually just about ends at the same time as the first one did. This allows the third book to take place in the present (considering if that book one and two were backstories to lead up to the third book).
One thing Jordan Rivet does differently in Meet Me At World’s End from Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse is how she tells the story. In Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse, Rivet starts off through Joanna’s perspective in the present. Then in every chapter, you are put in Joanna’s perspective in the present or flashbacks to the past to learn more about Joanna. In Meet Me At World’s End, Rivet keeps the reader in the present for almost the entire book with one or two small flashbacks. Believe it or not, Rivet does this for a specific reason. Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse is the first book of the series. Therefore, one would usually expect a long exposition in order to get into the book and learn all of the characters and background. However, using the technique Rivet did for Wake Me Up After The Apocalypse, the reader jumps right into the action and will read through the exposition in order to get to the action in the next chapter. However, since Meet Me At World’s End is the second book of the series, the author doesn’t need to introduce the reader right into the action because if the reader has already read the first book and has taken interest in the next, the reader is already going to want to get right into the action within the second book. So the reader will read through the exposition just to get to the rising action and find out what actually happens. With this in mind, we can clearly see why Rivet organized her books this way.
*WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*
Throughout the book, the BRP program slowly becomes corrupted and deviates away from the original program. Since Grandpa Heartland could no longer control the other bunkers, the program was essentially failing. In addition, the program was extremely unfair since the construction workers were promised tanks, but would never get any in the end. Jack and Charlotte saw how unfair and corrupted BRP was and decided to take action. They did this by proposing a lottery to the entire cohort. Anyone who was willing to give up their spot could enter the lottery or stay behind and guard the bunker until the comet hit. This would allow for the construction workers, including Jack, to get a chance to get a cryo tank. Unfortunately, Jack never got a cryo tank from the lottery, but he was still happy to be working. He and the rest of the people in the bunker were happy because they had fixed BRP as a group. Rivet uses the phrase “bleeding away” (Rivet, 279) to describe the fall of the old BRP program. This little bit of language in the story can describe how corrupt and unfair the original BRP program was. Some of this unfairness even came from Grandpa Heartland. Grandpa Heartland saw that “Most of the soldiers and workers are male. On the whole, they come from a particular demographic. Bringing in too many of them would skew the future population-and, not in a desirable direction” (Rivet, 236). Even Grandpa Heartland contributed to the unfairness present in the program, lying to the construction workers and promising them survival for their much-needed labor. But in the end, they would never get to survive. Charlotte always looked up to Grandpa Heartland and now she saw the real person within him, and the same reason why Charlotte's mother refused to go with Grandpa Heartland for safety.
*WARNING SPOILER SECTION END*
Overall, this was a fantastic book. I always found myself trying to predict the outcome of the book. There was so much action within it, and the romance between the main characters only added to it! I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Apocalyptic settings and end-of-the-world events such as this. Another great aspect, one could actually read books 1 and 2 out of order because of how the author set them up. All in all, this book was a marvelous follow-up to the first book. I rate this a 10/10 and would very highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys action, and a little bit of romance.
April 12, 2024
I was torn on whether i liked the first book that much or not, but i really liked this one. It felt like it had everything the first book was lacking, a deeper plot, more involved characters, and was much more organized. reading book 3 tmrw o7
September 6, 2023
I was a little disappointed at first when I realised this book isn't a continuation of the first book, but I think I may have even liked this better than the first! Can't wait to read the third
November 5, 2021
At the end of reading "Wake Me After the Apocalypse" I remember writing in my review how much I was wishing for a sequel. Well, it's not quite a sequel but I did enjoy some aspects of the prequel. I enjoyed the first book much more than this one, but it was interesting to see what led up to the apocalypse from another viewpoint in another bunker. I think the third book will be interesting as we merge Joanna and Charlotte's worlds into one and see what life is truly life post-apocalypse.
May 28, 2024
Charlotte Hartland is just a normal college student. Well, as normal as you can be when your Grandfather is a rich and influential businessman who paid for your education, but I digress. She's worried about exams and her friends and her mom who's halfway across the country. And she's currently worried that a boy may have stood her up when she gets a notification that a killer comet is hurtling towards earth and is expected to make impact in like 10 months. Luckily for her, Grandpa Hartland's already set aside a cryochamber for Charlotte and her mother. In 10 months they'll go to sleep for 200 years, long enough for the earth to be habitable again...
Jack is a construction worker on his brother's crew and they've just been offered the contract of a lifetime. For 9 short months of grueling labor, they'll get to sleep for 200 years and wake up in a new world. But as time gets closer and closer (and more people like Director Hartland's granddaughter show up.. people who CLEARLY bought their way in), the program starts to dissolve. The numbers aren't adding up and it seems more and more likely that people like Jack and his brother Kyle aren't going to get what they were promised....
Listen. I take it BACK!!! I don't want stakes!!! This book stressed me OUT.
A lot of my complaints from the first book were actually (kind of) ironed out in the second one. Pacing was better, the stakes were higher, the ramifications were felt more, the emotions were more impactful. And I liked the development of Charlotte and Jack's relationship a lot more.
I will say, the ending for this one also felt a little rushed, but in a good way. It felt like it was rushed because of the story. Humanity is scrambling to save itself and it felt like I was being carried along with a rushing crowd. Towards the end, I was flipping the pages almost faster than my eyes could read them. I had to know what happened. It was very good.
Is it like... haute literature? Is it going to stick with me forever? Is it going to be added to my favorite series of all time list? Probably not. But it was a good little sequel. And I actually liked it more than the first one. 3 stars.
Jack is a construction worker on his brother's crew and they've just been offered the contract of a lifetime. For 9 short months of grueling labor, they'll get to sleep for 200 years and wake up in a new world. But as time gets closer and closer (and more people like Director Hartland's granddaughter show up.. people who CLEARLY bought their way in), the program starts to dissolve. The numbers aren't adding up and it seems more and more likely that people like Jack and his brother Kyle aren't going to get what they were promised....
Listen. I take it BACK!!! I don't want stakes!!! This book stressed me OUT.
A lot of my complaints from the first book were actually (kind of) ironed out in the second one. Pacing was better, the stakes were higher, the ramifications were felt more, the emotions were more impactful. And I liked the development of Charlotte and Jack's relationship a lot more.
I will say, the ending for this one also felt a little rushed, but in a good way. It felt like it was rushed because of the story. Humanity is scrambling to save itself and it felt like I was being carried along with a rushing crowd. Towards the end, I was flipping the pages almost faster than my eyes could read them. I had to know what happened. It was very good.
Is it like... haute literature? Is it going to stick with me forever? Is it going to be added to my favorite series of all time list? Probably not. But it was a good little sequel. And I actually liked it more than the first one. 3 stars.
January 25, 2023
these books are LIKE CRACK. i swear i’ve never enjoyed a book series more, one more to read and i’m equally happy and sad that the series is ending, but excited to read. this series has very quickly become my top 5 ever, there’s no moments that you think this is boring and put it down, it’s literally unbelievable how i couldn’t put this book down. the characters are so well written and i cannot find a single part of me that dislikes them, they’re so enchanting and really draw you in, the twists and turns can be predictable but it’s still extremely enjoyable nonetheless, to think i found this on a whim scrolling on my kindle. definitely a loyal reader of this author now!!!
December 31, 2022
Meet me at the world's end was so easy to read.
This book is different for the first book in the series, Wake me after the apocalypse. The style of book is different, the first book the chapters were ‘Before’ the event and ‘After’ the event. It set up the character connections needed to tell the devastation of the story, and how one person's decision can ruin lives. Meet me at the world's end is written as a countdown.
We meet two new characters in a different bunker in the USA. Charlotte is the granddaughter of a very wealthy man who is heading up the BRP program (Bunker Reservation Project). Jack is a construction worker that dropped out of high school with anger issues, his oldest brother left the military at 18 to look after him when their parents died and hired Jack for his construction company.
Meet me at the world's end is a story about privilege and how humanity wants to try its best, but ultimately always reverts to self-preservation. Charlotte is allotted a space in a bunker simply because she is the granddaughter of the man heading up the program. She spends her time working as her grandfathers assistant, trying to help where she can, hiding her identity and the fact that she already has a place in the bunker even though they don't yet know how to choose who in the population will fill the other cryosleep spaces.
Jack's brother's construction company is hired to build out one of the bunkers and to get it ready for the 200 years it needs to survive, so the human population doesn't go extinct. In payment, everyone that's working to get the bunker ready has been promised a cryosleep bed and will survive the comet. Jack and Kyle had a hard upbringing because of their parents dying, and Jack is seen as coming from a hard background.
I really enjoyed reading the chapters from both Charlotte and Jack. I liked Charlotte and I could see how guilty she felt for being promised a cryosleep chamber, but she wanted to survive, so she's trying to do everything she can to feel she earned her place in the future. And perhaps to stop feeling so guilty. She idolises her grandfather, she can see his vision of a peaceful future. Though she's not exactly sure how a world without weapons could actually work, all the post apocalyptic films prove that humanity is only in it for themselves, for self-preservation.
Jack is a hard worker, sure he has a temper, and he doesn't have a filter, but he believes that if you work hard enough then you should get what you're owed or promised. A little naïve perhaps, but you can see how badly he wants things to go right, the hope he has. He and Charlotte meet in one of the bunkers when her grandfather insists she stays there while he goes to the other bunkers across the country to check out the program. Charlotte is determined to make herself useful, so she and Jack are put together to clear out rooms of supplies that should not be needed in the future, i.e weapons and guns. Jack hates her at first because she's the granddaughter of the head of BRP who may have lied about how many cryosleep chambers would be ready. But how can he not fall for the prettiest girl he's ever seen?
Overall, I really enjoyed reading this story, I was sucked in and wanted to see how this particular bunker ended up the way it did. I found the messages quite interesting in this story. Charlotte is flawed, she so badly wants to help, and she thinks everyone should have a say, that things should fair. Spoiler:
What was interesting about reading this story was that as we had already read the first book, we already knew how the world had turned out after the comet, so the suspense wasn't waiting to find out how this bunker might survive the apocalypse. But actually it was focused on the characters, the decisions made in the beginning, filling in the gaps of the program and how things turned out the way they did. The character arcs were interesting and a little surprising.
I devoured Meet me at the world's end, I was awake till really late yet again. I just couldn't put this book down. I'm very excited to read the final book, where the characters we met in the first book and this book meet. Not only that, but I also can't wait to find out more information about how the world has changed since the comet hit.
This book is different for the first book in the series, Wake me after the apocalypse. The style of book is different, the first book the chapters were ‘Before’ the event and ‘After’ the event. It set up the character connections needed to tell the devastation of the story, and how one person's decision can ruin lives. Meet me at the world's end is written as a countdown.
We meet two new characters in a different bunker in the USA. Charlotte is the granddaughter of a very wealthy man who is heading up the BRP program (Bunker Reservation Project). Jack is a construction worker that dropped out of high school with anger issues, his oldest brother left the military at 18 to look after him when their parents died and hired Jack for his construction company.
Meet me at the world's end is a story about privilege and how humanity wants to try its best, but ultimately always reverts to self-preservation. Charlotte is allotted a space in a bunker simply because she is the granddaughter of the man heading up the program. She spends her time working as her grandfathers assistant, trying to help where she can, hiding her identity and the fact that she already has a place in the bunker even though they don't yet know how to choose who in the population will fill the other cryosleep spaces.
Jack's brother's construction company is hired to build out one of the bunkers and to get it ready for the 200 years it needs to survive, so the human population doesn't go extinct. In payment, everyone that's working to get the bunker ready has been promised a cryosleep bed and will survive the comet. Jack and Kyle had a hard upbringing because of their parents dying, and Jack is seen as coming from a hard background.
I really enjoyed reading the chapters from both Charlotte and Jack. I liked Charlotte and I could see how guilty she felt for being promised a cryosleep chamber, but she wanted to survive, so she's trying to do everything she can to feel she earned her place in the future. And perhaps to stop feeling so guilty. She idolises her grandfather, she can see his vision of a peaceful future. Though she's not exactly sure how a world without weapons could actually work, all the post apocalyptic films prove that humanity is only in it for themselves, for self-preservation.
Jack is a hard worker, sure he has a temper, and he doesn't have a filter, but he believes that if you work hard enough then you should get what you're owed or promised. A little naïve perhaps, but you can see how badly he wants things to go right, the hope he has. He and Charlotte meet in one of the bunkers when her grandfather insists she stays there while he goes to the other bunkers across the country to check out the program. Charlotte is determined to make herself useful, so she and Jack are put together to clear out rooms of supplies that should not be needed in the future, i.e weapons and guns. Jack hates her at first because she's the granddaughter of the head of BRP who may have lied about how many cryosleep chambers would be ready. But how can he not fall for the prettiest girl he's ever seen?
Overall, I really enjoyed reading this story, I was sucked in and wanted to see how this particular bunker ended up the way it did. I found the messages quite interesting in this story. Charlotte is flawed, she so badly wants to help, and she thinks everyone should have a say, that things should fair. Spoiler:
What was interesting about reading this story was that as we had already read the first book, we already knew how the world had turned out after the comet, so the suspense wasn't waiting to find out how this bunker might survive the apocalypse. But actually it was focused on the characters, the decisions made in the beginning, filling in the gaps of the program and how things turned out the way they did. The character arcs were interesting and a little surprising.
I devoured Meet me at the world's end, I was awake till really late yet again. I just couldn't put this book down. I'm very excited to read the final book, where the characters we met in the first book and this book meet. Not only that, but I also can't wait to find out more information about how the world has changed since the comet hit.
May 16, 2021
How Buildup Can Power a Story
Meet Me At World’s End is the definition of a rollercoaster of emotions, from the very start to the bittersweet ending. If you haven’t read the first book, Wake Me After the Apocalypse, this book still does a very good job of catching the reader up on it, although later on in the book there are references to characters of the first book, with the introduction of Doctor Huntington. Meeting all of the characters, you become attached to the ones who decide to stay with the story, but each of these scenes are laced with lethargy, as more friends and side characters phase out of the story. Kyle is a perfect example of this, a man of mental structure, and a true leader. He always keeps Jack in check through the building of the bunker, but then, in the soul crushing ending, he is the last to be left out. “Jack hugged Kyle as tight as he could. Tears streamed down his face, but he didn’t wipe them away. He hugged his brother and vowed to spend every minute of his life, for two hundred years and beyond, trying to be worthy of his legacy.” (Rivet 318) This story is a lesson, one hard to learn but unforgettable; the lesson of moving on.
Back to the same situation with Kyle and Jack, Jack refuses to get into the final cryosleep container because he does not want to leave Kyle behind. Kyle finally forces Jack to take it and leave him, convincing Jack that leaving that container open would not save anyone. Jack needs to accept Kyle’s sacrifice, or otherwise it would not be worth anything. The older, more mature characters have a constant understanding of moving on, with the exception of Director Hartland. Charlotte is the mediator of progression, convincing the entire bunker to have a truly random choice of survivors rather than BRP’s rigged system. “The responsibility for delegating the myriad other tasks also fell to Charlotte. She made a point of always asking for volunteers. Instead of randomly selected teams and roles, people were stepping up to take on responsibilities for which they were most suited.” (Rivet 270) She spends the entire book convincing a multitude of characters to keep moving, including Jack again, her grandfather, her mother, Levi, and a few more. Each failure adds to the oncoming tension which breaks loose in the finale of the story. Anders is the final break, when he convinces Jack to help him escape. The reason why the ending hurts so much is because in the entire book, we have reasoned with each and every character, agreed or disagreed, but there is always one character any reader could relate to, so the impact of the ending is felt equally. The lesson of moving on is then given to us, the audience, to move on from the losses of every other main and important side character in the story. If you related to Jack and Kyle, then you will need to cope with the loss of Kyle’s happy ending. If you related to Charlotte and her mother, you will have to cope with the loss of her mother, even before the final struggle starts. “He returned here the next morning, intending to bring her in by force. But a band of looters got there first. Such groups are roving the country now, snatching up survival gear and weapons as if the comet isn’t going to kill them all in a few weeks. H-he found her in a river. She’s gone, my dear.” (Rivet 238) Finally, if you relate to the construction team and the Yellow Team One members, then the loss of them comes with its own coping as well. Nobody is left out.
And this all ties back to the buildup. Constantly, nearly by the page, one of the characters is lost. Lisa, Rocco, and Sydney are all gone in 5 pages. Lisa had been around the book since the very beginning, when Kyle got to the bunker in the first place. Rocco had been a side character from even earlier. Sydney was one of the first team members introduced. Having a safety net of shoulders to lean on, you can tackle the smaller issues, like Jack and Charlotte trying to get time to meet. When, at the end of the book, that safety net is taken away, you are up to your own power to fight negative emotion. That is when you can take the lessons in the middle of the book, and put them into work. This whole time the book has been taking turns telling characters to move on, and now it is the reader’s turn. When the story can connect with the audience like that, to give them a helping hand from the darkness of grief; that is the mark of a masterpiece.
Meet Me At World’s End is the definition of a rollercoaster of emotions, from the very start to the bittersweet ending. If you haven’t read the first book, Wake Me After the Apocalypse, this book still does a very good job of catching the reader up on it, although later on in the book there are references to characters of the first book, with the introduction of Doctor Huntington. Meeting all of the characters, you become attached to the ones who decide to stay with the story, but each of these scenes are laced with lethargy, as more friends and side characters phase out of the story. Kyle is a perfect example of this, a man of mental structure, and a true leader. He always keeps Jack in check through the building of the bunker, but then, in the soul crushing ending, he is the last to be left out. “Jack hugged Kyle as tight as he could. Tears streamed down his face, but he didn’t wipe them away. He hugged his brother and vowed to spend every minute of his life, for two hundred years and beyond, trying to be worthy of his legacy.” (Rivet 318) This story is a lesson, one hard to learn but unforgettable; the lesson of moving on.
Back to the same situation with Kyle and Jack, Jack refuses to get into the final cryosleep container because he does not want to leave Kyle behind. Kyle finally forces Jack to take it and leave him, convincing Jack that leaving that container open would not save anyone. Jack needs to accept Kyle’s sacrifice, or otherwise it would not be worth anything. The older, more mature characters have a constant understanding of moving on, with the exception of Director Hartland. Charlotte is the mediator of progression, convincing the entire bunker to have a truly random choice of survivors rather than BRP’s rigged system. “The responsibility for delegating the myriad other tasks also fell to Charlotte. She made a point of always asking for volunteers. Instead of randomly selected teams and roles, people were stepping up to take on responsibilities for which they were most suited.” (Rivet 270) She spends the entire book convincing a multitude of characters to keep moving, including Jack again, her grandfather, her mother, Levi, and a few more. Each failure adds to the oncoming tension which breaks loose in the finale of the story. Anders is the final break, when he convinces Jack to help him escape. The reason why the ending hurts so much is because in the entire book, we have reasoned with each and every character, agreed or disagreed, but there is always one character any reader could relate to, so the impact of the ending is felt equally. The lesson of moving on is then given to us, the audience, to move on from the losses of every other main and important side character in the story. If you related to Jack and Kyle, then you will need to cope with the loss of Kyle’s happy ending. If you related to Charlotte and her mother, you will have to cope with the loss of her mother, even before the final struggle starts. “He returned here the next morning, intending to bring her in by force. But a band of looters got there first. Such groups are roving the country now, snatching up survival gear and weapons as if the comet isn’t going to kill them all in a few weeks. H-he found her in a river. She’s gone, my dear.” (Rivet 238) Finally, if you relate to the construction team and the Yellow Team One members, then the loss of them comes with its own coping as well. Nobody is left out.
And this all ties back to the buildup. Constantly, nearly by the page, one of the characters is lost. Lisa, Rocco, and Sydney are all gone in 5 pages. Lisa had been around the book since the very beginning, when Kyle got to the bunker in the first place. Rocco had been a side character from even earlier. Sydney was one of the first team members introduced. Having a safety net of shoulders to lean on, you can tackle the smaller issues, like Jack and Charlotte trying to get time to meet. When, at the end of the book, that safety net is taken away, you are up to your own power to fight negative emotion. That is when you can take the lessons in the middle of the book, and put them into work. This whole time the book has been taking turns telling characters to move on, and now it is the reader’s turn. When the story can connect with the audience like that, to give them a helping hand from the darkness of grief; that is the mark of a masterpiece.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 14, 2021
It’s Not the End of the World!
SPOILER DISCLAIMER!!!
Opinion
Meet me at World’s End is an engaging book that keeps its readers hooked from beginning to the very end.
Overview
The book, Meet Me at World’s End by Jordan Rivet is a rather dramatic story that describes the thoughts, actions, and emotions of two young adults brought together by the catastrophe. In the opening, the author introduces the characters in their own first person perspective. Although the characters, Charlotte and Jack, meet together eventually, they could not have started farther apart from each other. This fact is what introduces the drama of the story, not that fact that the end of the world is coming, but the fact that these two opposite characters must come together through a series of unexpected events with the end of the world in the background.
Dislikes
The book was actually pretty good! It had a rather engaging blend of science fiction and drama mixed in with some romance. While the author did a good job of blending these genres together, there were still some instances of missing information and nonsensical events. An ordinary example of one of these events would be when an important character, the assistant to the boss, leaves the operation completely for no explained reason. This really shook up the storyline, especially since this character was actively on a mission when he departed, which creates some unwanted mystery to his disappearance.
Likes
Fortunately, I enjoyed reading this book. It seldom lost me and only had a few unwanted disturbances, such as the one listed above. It was easy to follow and didn’t end on a cliffhanger while still making you want to read the next book in the series. For a science fiction, it wasn’t overly dramatic or over exaggerated. It’s a good book to read.
Overall
Overall, the book had a good plot, characters, level of drama, and reality. Unfortunately, the book was way too easy to read, but that isn’t the author’s fault. By saying t was easy to read, I mean the sentence structure, vocabulary, and deeper meanings of events were not overly advanced or complicated. Despite this, it still keeps you engaged with the story, so it definitely wasn’t a boring book. I would give it a ⅘ review.
SPOILER DISCLAIMER!!!
Opinion
Meet me at World’s End is an engaging book that keeps its readers hooked from beginning to the very end.
Overview
The book, Meet Me at World’s End by Jordan Rivet is a rather dramatic story that describes the thoughts, actions, and emotions of two young adults brought together by the catastrophe. In the opening, the author introduces the characters in their own first person perspective. Although the characters, Charlotte and Jack, meet together eventually, they could not have started farther apart from each other. This fact is what introduces the drama of the story, not that fact that the end of the world is coming, but the fact that these two opposite characters must come together through a series of unexpected events with the end of the world in the background.
Dislikes
The book was actually pretty good! It had a rather engaging blend of science fiction and drama mixed in with some romance. While the author did a good job of blending these genres together, there were still some instances of missing information and nonsensical events. An ordinary example of one of these events would be when an important character, the assistant to the boss, leaves the operation completely for no explained reason. This really shook up the storyline, especially since this character was actively on a mission when he departed, which creates some unwanted mystery to his disappearance.
Likes
Fortunately, I enjoyed reading this book. It seldom lost me and only had a few unwanted disturbances, such as the one listed above. It was easy to follow and didn’t end on a cliffhanger while still making you want to read the next book in the series. For a science fiction, it wasn’t overly dramatic or over exaggerated. It’s a good book to read.
Overall
Overall, the book had a good plot, characters, level of drama, and reality. Unfortunately, the book was way too easy to read, but that isn’t the author’s fault. By saying t was easy to read, I mean the sentence structure, vocabulary, and deeper meanings of events were not overly advanced or complicated. Despite this, it still keeps you engaged with the story, so it definitely wasn’t a boring book. I would give it a ⅘ review.
May 19, 2021
*SPOILER ALERT* A Great Book for a Wide Audience!
You are at college in the heights of winter when everybody starts looking at their phones. You look at yours and see, “BREAKING NEWS! AN ASTEROID IS GOING TO HIT EARTH IN JUST OVER 9 MONTHS!” Your heart is racing, you’re panicking, you don’t know what to do. Then a man in a black SUV drives up and throws you in the back. The rest is a mystery. This is exactly what made Meet Me At World’s End by Jordan Rivet such an amazing book. There were countless mysteries. It never felt like a good time to set the book down. I am not a big science fiction fan, but if I had to start somewhere, this is the book to read.
I will first start with the pros of the book. The biggest pro for me was absolutely the suspense. Throughout the entire book, there was always a suspenseful event. The way the book was formatted, each chapter was either the point of view of Charlotte or the point of view of Jack. This flipped every chapter, and with it came even more suspense. For example, the end of the first chapter, which is Charlotte’s point of view, says, “Charlotte couldn’t argue with his implacable authority. She crossed the trampled, snowy quad, leaving behind the panicked students, and climbed into the black SUV. The door slammed shut, sealing her off from the chaotic new world”(Rivet 15). The suspense makes the reader ask questions… Where is she going? Another pro is that it was very easy to follow along with the characters because they were all polar opposites.
On the contrary, here is one flaw/con in the book. Although the story was very well pieced together and almost flawless to me, there were in fact missing pieces in the book. At points it felt like there were too many cliffhangers such as characters simply disappearing during the book and it makes you question the book’s structure.
All in all, this was a very good book and I highly recommend reading it! I would give this book 4.5 stars for its one major flaw, but I believe 5 stars sums up how great “Meet Me at World’s End” by Jordan Rivet is.
You are at college in the heights of winter when everybody starts looking at their phones. You look at yours and see, “BREAKING NEWS! AN ASTEROID IS GOING TO HIT EARTH IN JUST OVER 9 MONTHS!” Your heart is racing, you’re panicking, you don’t know what to do. Then a man in a black SUV drives up and throws you in the back. The rest is a mystery. This is exactly what made Meet Me At World’s End by Jordan Rivet such an amazing book. There were countless mysteries. It never felt like a good time to set the book down. I am not a big science fiction fan, but if I had to start somewhere, this is the book to read.
I will first start with the pros of the book. The biggest pro for me was absolutely the suspense. Throughout the entire book, there was always a suspenseful event. The way the book was formatted, each chapter was either the point of view of Charlotte or the point of view of Jack. This flipped every chapter, and with it came even more suspense. For example, the end of the first chapter, which is Charlotte’s point of view, says, “Charlotte couldn’t argue with his implacable authority. She crossed the trampled, snowy quad, leaving behind the panicked students, and climbed into the black SUV. The door slammed shut, sealing her off from the chaotic new world”(Rivet 15). The suspense makes the reader ask questions… Where is she going? Another pro is that it was very easy to follow along with the characters because they were all polar opposites.
On the contrary, here is one flaw/con in the book. Although the story was very well pieced together and almost flawless to me, there were in fact missing pieces in the book. At points it felt like there were too many cliffhangers such as characters simply disappearing during the book and it makes you question the book’s structure.
All in all, this was a very good book and I highly recommend reading it! I would give this book 4.5 stars for its one major flaw, but I believe 5 stars sums up how great “Meet Me at World’s End” by Jordan Rivet is.
April 4, 2023
I had enjoyed the first book in this series enough to continue on ... included in KU, I didn't splurge to add on the audio (not included but offered at a discounted price) and read this myself. I was expecting a sequel, but it was obvious from the first page that this was more of a companion read, again starting before the comet, dealing with the countdown ... only the epilogue gives the smallest peek at after the awakening (unlike the first book, which alternated timelines between after and before).
Here, there are two POVs, Charlotte and Jack. Charlotte is the grand-daughter of the head of the bunker program. As Grandpa is rich and has connections, he's able to arrange for Charlotte to get to safety in the chaos of the comet announcement, and gets her a cryo-bed. The other MC is Jack, a construction worker, who is helping build the bunker, also promised a bed for work.
In book one we heard a little how the bunker program started to fall apart, saw how the cohorts were brought together and bonded as a team. Here, it's less about the team-building and more about what was going on in the background.
I liked the story and will continue on, where book 1 and book 2 come together (we meet Levi here in book 2, and he was a character we got to know a little in the "after" sections of book 1). Nothing super profound.
A couple random connections ... mention of the Great Salt Lake in travels, and one of the young people brought in for a cryo-bed was "a Mormon from Utah who’d been waiting for her boyfriend to return from his mission so they could get married."
Here, there are two POVs, Charlotte and Jack. Charlotte is the grand-daughter of the head of the bunker program. As Grandpa is rich and has connections, he's able to arrange for Charlotte to get to safety in the chaos of the comet announcement, and gets her a cryo-bed. The other MC is Jack, a construction worker, who is helping build the bunker, also promised a bed for work.
In book one we heard a little how the bunker program started to fall apart, saw how the cohorts were brought together and bonded as a team. Here, it's less about the team-building and more about what was going on in the background.
I liked the story and will continue on, where book 1 and book 2 come together (we meet Levi here in book 2, and he was a character we got to know a little in the "after" sections of book 1). Nothing super profound.
A couple random connections ... mention of the Great Salt Lake in travels, and one of the young people brought in for a cryo-bed was "a Mormon from Utah who’d been waiting for her boyfriend to return from his mission so they could get married."
March 26, 2025
In the second book of the Bunker series, we follow Charlotte and Jack back before the comet hurtling towards Earth will cause all life to become extinct. Except that Charlotte Hartland's Grandad is the civil director of the BRP, and he has decided to use his privilege to ensure Charlotte survives by getting her into a cryosleep berth.
Jack Woodward is a construction worker who, alongside his brother Kyle, has been hired to prepare the Oregon bunker for the apocalypse, and they have been promised survival. But Charlotte and Jack soon learn that even in the present and going into the future, other people have agendas and are willing to do anything to survive.
The one minor problem with the bunkers is that in the real world, I bet the USA has loads of military bases and bunkers, but in the book world, they have to convert places into bunkers. And even the bunker they started renovating, I would have thought, would be easy to convert.
But seeing Charlotte and Jack work together and silently become closer, do they both realise that the plans of the officials are not exactly what they have been told? Especially hard for Charlotte to finally understand her mum's fraught relationship with her father, learning that he will do whatever it takes to make sure he gets his way eventually.
Even though we know some of the plot that is going to happen from the first book, the comet and some of the other bunkers arming themselves, what keeps you reading is seeing what happens to Charlotte and Jack. Even though the future does not advance, it was still a five-star read.
Jack Woodward is a construction worker who, alongside his brother Kyle, has been hired to prepare the Oregon bunker for the apocalypse, and they have been promised survival. But Charlotte and Jack soon learn that even in the present and going into the future, other people have agendas and are willing to do anything to survive.
The one minor problem with the bunkers is that in the real world, I bet the USA has loads of military bases and bunkers, but in the book world, they have to convert places into bunkers. And even the bunker they started renovating, I would have thought, would be easy to convert.
But seeing Charlotte and Jack work together and silently become closer, do they both realise that the plans of the officials are not exactly what they have been told? Especially hard for Charlotte to finally understand her mum's fraught relationship with her father, learning that he will do whatever it takes to make sure he gets his way eventually.
Even though we know some of the plot that is going to happen from the first book, the comet and some of the other bunkers arming themselves, what keeps you reading is seeing what happens to Charlotte and Jack. Even though the future does not advance, it was still a five-star read.
March 13, 2020
Meet Me at Worlds End Jordan Rivet
Charlotte Hartland found out the world was coming to an end while she was at school and waiting for a friend to meet her. It couldn't be true...Could it? As she found out from learned Professionals.."It was indeed true and they could do nothing to stop this massive Comet that had a Bullseye painted on Planet Earth."
Her Grandfathers Right Hand Man "Kazimir," came roaring in to pick her up and whisk her off to safety in a hastily put together underground modern Ark that he was partly in charge of, and had assured her a Cryogenic Pod to keep her alive and asleep for an estimated 200 years to reawaken in the future.
Many others were involved in the preparations of several of these bunkers. Many of which would never have a chance of this promised future, but needed to protect, and build and install all the survival tubes for the lucky few. This well thought out and well-written change in Jordan's normal forte is resoundingly a wonderful adventure and enticingly realistic story.
I for one am excited for when she publishes the next step that Charlotte and Friends, and possibly enemies from the other Arc's will bring. If you love excitement, Adventure, Anxiety, and some passion, this is a can't miss this series with a twist from Jordan Rivet.
Charlotte Hartland found out the world was coming to an end while she was at school and waiting for a friend to meet her. It couldn't be true...Could it? As she found out from learned Professionals.."It was indeed true and they could do nothing to stop this massive Comet that had a Bullseye painted on Planet Earth."
Her Grandfathers Right Hand Man "Kazimir," came roaring in to pick her up and whisk her off to safety in a hastily put together underground modern Ark that he was partly in charge of, and had assured her a Cryogenic Pod to keep her alive and asleep for an estimated 200 years to reawaken in the future.
Many others were involved in the preparations of several of these bunkers. Many of which would never have a chance of this promised future, but needed to protect, and build and install all the survival tubes for the lucky few. This well thought out and well-written change in Jordan's normal forte is resoundingly a wonderful adventure and enticingly realistic story.
I for one am excited for when she publishes the next step that Charlotte and Friends, and possibly enemies from the other Arc's will bring. If you love excitement, Adventure, Anxiety, and some passion, this is a can't miss this series with a twist from Jordan Rivet.
May 7, 2020
I really enjoyed this audiobook. It has a hearty storyline that you will fall in love with the more you listen. It is not Mindbending nor does it introduce anything new in the genre but it is still a great story nonetheless. You just know that things are going to go awry with a story like this but that’s half the fun is the lead up to when the stuff hits the fan. Our characters are great and you have the brooding young man going after the innocent girl, but that is true and most of our lives. You just love to hate them and it shows that it’s written very well when the characters are frustrating you in one chapter and then you’re totally on their side and laughing at them in the next chapter. The ending will leave you satisfied and ties that many of the loose ends, while it still does leave some questions to the imagination I think that’s good. Perhaps a spin off story in the making? I would read that! The performance was very well done. The narrator gives each character a unique voice whether they are male or female and you can definitely tell the difference of who’s talking. Throughout the entire story there was a consistent pace and she stayed steady throughout. Overall, this is just good wholesome storytelling for the entire family. A great series to get into and I hope there is another book.
February 19, 2025
I am loving this series! A comet hurdles toward earth, so humanity is doomed. Or is it? Cryogenic just might save a select few in underground mine shafts or caverns across the country. But who gets to decide on the selection process and is there even enough time and resources to make survival a reality?
Charlotte Hartland is the granddaughter one a powerful man who implements a plan to save humanity. She is swept away from here college campus to be whisked away to one such bunker. Here, feeling alone and abandoned, she meets Jack. Jack is one of the construction workers working to get the underground bunkers prepared, along with his older brother, Kyle.
I love the characters in this book just as much, if not more than, those in the first book. Jack is a hot head, known for consistently getting himself into trouble.
Kyle has watched out for Jack since their parents died. Kyle is the responsible one.
When Jack meets Charlotte, sparks fly, but she is no shrinking Violet. Their sweet, slow chemistry had me pulling for them throughout this book.
I love how the author has built this apocalyptic world. And the plot in each book is designed to come together toward the ultimate plot. I haven't gotten there yet, but I can't wait to get into book 3.
Charlotte Hartland is the granddaughter one a powerful man who implements a plan to save humanity. She is swept away from here college campus to be whisked away to one such bunker. Here, feeling alone and abandoned, she meets Jack. Jack is one of the construction workers working to get the underground bunkers prepared, along with his older brother, Kyle.
I love the characters in this book just as much, if not more than, those in the first book. Jack is a hot head, known for consistently getting himself into trouble.
Kyle has watched out for Jack since their parents died. Kyle is the responsible one.
When Jack meets Charlotte, sparks fly, but she is no shrinking Violet. Their sweet, slow chemistry had me pulling for them throughout this book.
I love how the author has built this apocalyptic world. And the plot in each book is designed to come together toward the ultimate plot. I haven't gotten there yet, but I can't wait to get into book 3.
February 24, 2020
In the second book of her Bunker series, Jordan Rivet picks up the comet-hitting-Earth story with a different group of people chosen to go into cryosleep in secure bunkers than the first book. With this one, she begins the story with the approach of the comet and the preparations to save humanity from annihilation.
I am not a huge fans of apocalyptic fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed this tale that included political intrigue as the various factions running the project collided on how people would be chosen, what stipulations would be put on the program, and the actual preparation for a disaster of this magnitude. When reading a well-crafted narrative, such as this, I can't help but think about what I would do and what my government would do in such a situation. Our planet could very well be a target of a comet one day and would we be in any position to save anyone? Would people who didn't have a chance of surviving be willing to sacrifice themselves for strangers who are chosen? How would we react? This is a story about surviving thoughtfully told with heart and a great deal of speculation. Well done, Ms. Rivet.
I was fortunate to be an advanced reader for this novel. Honestly? I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to read a great story.
I am not a huge fans of apocalyptic fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed this tale that included political intrigue as the various factions running the project collided on how people would be chosen, what stipulations would be put on the program, and the actual preparation for a disaster of this magnitude. When reading a well-crafted narrative, such as this, I can't help but think about what I would do and what my government would do in such a situation. Our planet could very well be a target of a comet one day and would we be in any position to save anyone? Would people who didn't have a chance of surviving be willing to sacrifice themselves for strangers who are chosen? How would we react? This is a story about surviving thoughtfully told with heart and a great deal of speculation. Well done, Ms. Rivet.
I was fortunate to be an advanced reader for this novel. Honestly? I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to read a great story.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 8, 2022
If you're expecting this book to pick up from where the first one left off you'll be seriously disappointed. I thought that surely at some point before the end it would return to the original storyline but it doesn't. This book feels like a filler and a lazy attempt at a trilogy and for that reason I found it a chore to read.
What this book does do is develop the story of the characters in the other bunker where we're hopefully heading to in the third book. We find out more about their back story, about the BRP project, about how decisions were made and how everything felt apart organisationally towards the end. I think there are cleverer ways to include this in a more diverse storyline that doesn't leave us feeling cheated from the first book.
If you can look past the fact that this is an alternative beginning to the first book then it's an easy enough read with short chapters and a fast moving plot.
I will finish this series but only because I've invested so much time and I want to know how it ends!
What this book does do is develop the story of the characters in the other bunker where we're hopefully heading to in the third book. We find out more about their back story, about the BRP project, about how decisions were made and how everything felt apart organisationally towards the end. I think there are cleverer ways to include this in a more diverse storyline that doesn't leave us feeling cheated from the first book.
If you can look past the fact that this is an alternative beginning to the first book then it's an easy enough read with short chapters and a fast moving plot.
I will finish this series but only because I've invested so much time and I want to know how it ends!
March 14, 2020
3.5 ⭐️
*Mild spoilers ahead*
In the first book (Wake Me After the Apocalypse) we follow Joanna and her friends preparing for the same comet, focusing more on going into cryosleep and awaking 200 years later to inhabit the new world. What I liked about Meet Me at World’s End was that we got kind of an inside look on the preparation and function of bunkers and cryo tanks and how people were chosen to sleep away the apocalypse in them. Charlotte, being the granddaughter of the civil rights director of BRP, is reserved a cryo tank. Jack and his brother Kyle are construction workers, and are offered what seems to be a saving grace; they each are guaranteed a cryo tank in exchange for their labor in a bunker to prepare it for the apocalypse. As for everyone else, it’s “random”.
I also liked the little details that were dispersed throughout the story telling us how the outside world was handling the comet crisis. There was panic, looting, violence, desperation and denial, but there was also acceptance, hope, self-sacrifice, heroism and dedication to make the world a better place post-apocalypse, even when facing world’s end.
All in all, this was a fun and easy read, and I’m looking forward to see how the third books ties the first two together! (Jordan, I NEED the third book. Like, yesterday.)
*Mild spoilers ahead*
In the first book (Wake Me After the Apocalypse) we follow Joanna and her friends preparing for the same comet, focusing more on going into cryosleep and awaking 200 years later to inhabit the new world. What I liked about Meet Me at World’s End was that we got kind of an inside look on the preparation and function of bunkers and cryo tanks and how people were chosen to sleep away the apocalypse in them. Charlotte, being the granddaughter of the civil rights director of BRP, is reserved a cryo tank. Jack and his brother Kyle are construction workers, and are offered what seems to be a saving grace; they each are guaranteed a cryo tank in exchange for their labor in a bunker to prepare it for the apocalypse. As for everyone else, it’s “random”.
I also liked the little details that were dispersed throughout the story telling us how the outside world was handling the comet crisis. There was panic, looting, violence, desperation and denial, but there was also acceptance, hope, self-sacrifice, heroism and dedication to make the world a better place post-apocalypse, even when facing world’s end.
All in all, this was a fun and easy read, and I’m looking forward to see how the third books ties the first two together! (Jordan, I NEED the third book. Like, yesterday.)
February 15, 2025
Meet Me at World’s End is the second book of the sci-fi, post-apocalyptic YA Bunker series, but it’s really a prequel to book one, Wake Me After the Apocalypse. You could read this book before book one and not miss anything.
Meet Me at World’s End starts at the beginning when the comet hurtling toward Earth is just discovered. Charlotte Hartland is a college student. Her grandfather is one of the leaders of the Bunker Reservation Project and secures her a place in cryosleep, ensuring she’ll survive the apocalypse.
While waiting for the day in which she’ll go into cryosleep, she meets Jack, a construction worker who was promised a spot for helping construct the bunkers. A tentative, secret romance develops. However, Jack, and then Charlotte, soon discover all the workers were lied to. There are no spots for them.
This book was both realistic and idealistic, hopeful and tragic, optimistic and pessimistic. I’m looking forward to book 3.
Meet Me at World’s End starts at the beginning when the comet hurtling toward Earth is just discovered. Charlotte Hartland is a college student. Her grandfather is one of the leaders of the Bunker Reservation Project and secures her a place in cryosleep, ensuring she’ll survive the apocalypse.
While waiting for the day in which she’ll go into cryosleep, she meets Jack, a construction worker who was promised a spot for helping construct the bunkers. A tentative, secret romance develops. However, Jack, and then Charlotte, soon discover all the workers were lied to. There are no spots for them.
This book was both realistic and idealistic, hopeful and tragic, optimistic and pessimistic. I’m looking forward to book 3.
August 12, 2021
This was SO good! I loved every second of this story! Jack was kind of an ass sometimes but....he had valid reasons to be upset and hes human. Charlotte wasn't a hypocrite or hide she was privileged but she did everything she could to help others. These characters were so well rounded, down to earth and relatable, it just drew me in. Jack and Kyle's history, their crew, and the very real fact of labor abuse just made the story so much more realistic and tragic. I couldn't help but hope Jack found his happiness with Charlotte once they started liking each other. And Charlotte wasn't this crazy girl that would give up everything for guy, but also not the type to throw him aside. It was refreshing and crazy how they brought their cohort and labor force together. Can't wait to read how it goes for them in the new world! This one was even BETTER than book 1!
February 23, 2020
A Fantastic Second Book
After I finished book 1, Wake Me After The Apocalypse last year, I immediately looked up Jordan Rivet on Instagram. I was hoping there were plans for a second book! Luckily for me and everyone else, there was! Meet Me at World's End is a fantastic second book. It introduces us to new characters and gives us a little background on a few from the first book. I was excited to see more of what happened before the apocalypse. I finished this in one day and now I'm anxious for book 3. Book 3 will tie in all of the characters we met in book 1, with the new characters we met in this second book. I definitely recommend this book and the first book in the Bunker Book series.
After I finished book 1, Wake Me After The Apocalypse last year, I immediately looked up Jordan Rivet on Instagram. I was hoping there were plans for a second book! Luckily for me and everyone else, there was! Meet Me at World's End is a fantastic second book. It introduces us to new characters and gives us a little background on a few from the first book. I was excited to see more of what happened before the apocalypse. I finished this in one day and now I'm anxious for book 3. Book 3 will tie in all of the characters we met in book 1, with the new characters we met in this second book. I definitely recommend this book and the first book in the Bunker Book series.
April 25, 2020
Jordan Rivet wrote one of my faviorte fantasy series Steal and Fire. She also has a new dystopian series.
Wake Me After the Apocalypse
(Book one)
Meet Me at World's End
(Book two)
These books have themes of the need of connection, family & surviving. Jordan Rivet does such a good job of making worlds and characters that real. If your in a mood of a YA dystopian that's fast pace, I would recommend both of these.
Listen to the audiobooks to both books & the narrator did a wounderful job. Thank you to Jordan Rivet for a copy of the audiobook Meet Me at Worlds End.
All thoughts & opinions are my own.
Trigger Warnings:
Some language (nothing strong)
Talk about deaths & murders (nothing graphic)
Wake Me After the Apocalypse
(Book one)
Meet Me at World's End
(Book two)
These books have themes of the need of connection, family & surviving. Jordan Rivet does such a good job of making worlds and characters that real. If your in a mood of a YA dystopian that's fast pace, I would recommend both of these.
Listen to the audiobooks to both books & the narrator did a wounderful job. Thank you to Jordan Rivet for a copy of the audiobook Meet Me at Worlds End.
All thoughts & opinions are my own.
Trigger Warnings:
Some language (nothing strong)
Talk about deaths & murders (nothing graphic)
March 29, 2023
Meet Me at World's End
Bunker #2
Post-apocalyptic
Jordan Rivet
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is the second book in this series but this time, the focus is on another bunker and a different group of survivors.
I'm glad this book had dual POVs as I think it adds more depth to the plot and helps to keep things more interesting. The countdown at the beginning of each chapter created the sense of impending doom and tension.
The pacing was quite slow. Rather than the book taking place in the future with glimpses of the past, it was set completely before the comet hit. I would've liked to see what happened after everyone woke up.
I think the ending was quite abrupt and a bit predictable.
This felt a little like filler before the next book but it was still a good read.
Bunker #2
Post-apocalyptic
Jordan Rivet
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is the second book in this series but this time, the focus is on another bunker and a different group of survivors.
I'm glad this book had dual POVs as I think it adds more depth to the plot and helps to keep things more interesting. The countdown at the beginning of each chapter created the sense of impending doom and tension.
The pacing was quite slow. Rather than the book taking place in the future with glimpses of the past, it was set completely before the comet hit. I would've liked to see what happened after everyone woke up.
I think the ending was quite abrupt and a bit predictable.
This felt a little like filler before the next book but it was still a good read.
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