Combined with the world ending, storms ravaging the coast, and zombie-like creatures attacking, I’m not able to catch a break.
But this time? The world took it too far.
Separated from two of my men and grieving a third, I will stop at nothing to make our fractured team whole again.
New threats are lurking around every corner, and a new question arises: who will survive?
Sometimes we hide from our monsters...
...and sometimes we hunt them down.
This is the final book of the Together We Fall series and features a reverse harem, whychoose romance. This means the MC will not have to choose between her love interests. You must have read the first three books in this series before this one. Be prepared for a word-vomiting MC and the men who love her.
Having finished this series, I have to be honest, I was being far too kind early on. I still absolutely love Katie May but this series was just not for me, each one was worst than the last. Each book was so overdone, over-dramatic and there was so much going on I'm still not sure what the whole point of the series was. Firstly all the characters need love and adult supervision. I find it hard to believe most of the guys background in - working for the government? Maybe, but I'm still not sure at this point who they even worked for. But damn do they need some serious re-training because aside from being good shots, they all suck at paying attention to their surroundings and not being taken by surprise. Someone is constantly being hit over the head or having a gun/knife pointed at their heads. Throw in the guys constantly dying with laughter, rolling on the floor and crying at every little thing the heroine said and I was just tired of it. Add the heroine and her word vomit which completely lost it's funniness and became overly cheesy and lame and I was praying for the end early on. :( There's still no explanation about the weird weather anomalies and I just don't get why that had to even be included with a zombie apocalypse series at all, especially if it too will be more of a side story than the main focus. Maybe perhaps its because the worms causing the virus were from melting permafrost from Global Warming but I still don't see the connection. And then having her be the cure, come on already.... Sure we're made to believe her parents are fairly well known criminals (at least near where they live) but holy hell batman you also want me to believe they were part of government experiments on the virus and her father was using her as a guinea pig for more than even she knew... Again - there is just toooooooo much going on and it's past the point of unbelievable even for fiction. I really wanted to love this book but for me it was the worst one of the bunch. I also really wish I could have enjoyed the epilogue which is often my favorite part of a book but damn if even that felt wrong. The last thing this group needs to do is have a baby, they all need some serious adult supervision and love because they all read very immature. Addie for the most part still confounds me, she's I hate to say it, super dense and just plain dumb at times. I'm supposed to believe this girl started college at 13 and yet she seems to barely know anything about anything. I could understand her lacking street smarts but really she gives the word 'bimbo' meaning. She was so horribly mistreated as a child and up until book one yet she suffers no lingering trauma etc. It really felt like some parts were thrown in just to give the book/characters an edge but to be so callously included and pushed aside makes no sense to me. There's still questions I feel that have been left unanswered but then again with so much going on and so many little tidbits and story lines thrown in it would take a whole new series just to make sense of this one. I think the overall idea for the series is brilliant but the execution and over-dramatizing of every scene, character etc. just did not work for me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
I will say that this series is not for everyone, Addie is not a character that everyone could relate to, but I really liked her.
This book took many twists and turns that I absolutely did not see coming but I was pleasantly surprised by many of them.
I am glad that Addie's parents got what they deserved because they were horrible people who deserved to die a horrible, painful death. The whole issue about why Addie was so important was a little far fetched but not too much to make it unbelievable.
Tonya was a nice surprise to the story, Addie needed that positive female relationship considering she never had one.
I liked it a lot. The guys were incredible. The FMC is hilarious and a little crazy in the most endearing way. Highly recommend if you like dystopian RH.
This series started off better but then started getting a bit more rushed and repetitive. I liked the character development in the first book or so and the main character and narrator, Addie, is very amusing and unique. But very quickly you’re just supposed to accept that there are conversations and great moments between the characters without actually reading them. This book of the series also weirdly described each character twice. As in you read seven paragraphs of descriptions of their physical experience and personality. I’m always a bit annoyed with this in series, because if someone chose to pick up the 4th and final in a series as the first they read, they should just be in the dark rather than getting a full recap and background of everything that’s already happened. Although this book didn’t do a full recap of the adventures these characters have gotten into, we do get a lot of descriptions of characters. It was also just a bit repetitive in the struggles these characters find themselves in. There are the infected basically like zombies so society starts to collapse so they get separated while out finding supplies and back together and separated and back together etc. Again I liked the first book and the uniqueness of Addie but I think this series could have been consolidated and thus a bit better rather than dragging on.
I have to admit that I was quite scared to read this final book after the emotions that were triggered by the previous books. It's safe to say that while I absolutely love Katie May's books, she's probably the only author that manages to crack open my chest and leave me completely and utterly bare on an emotional level. Addie's story breaks my heart. Her upbringing has clearly left her scarred in multiple ways and it shows in what I like to call Addie's 'Loco in The Coconut'-personality. Her quirks and internal conversations are hilarious and add some lightness to the overall heavy topics addressed in this series. I loved the conclusion of this series because it definitely gave me closure!
You can see the growth of this author through the course of this series, how she starts becoming more comfortable with her craft and and reading into the dramatic world she has concocted. It’s interesting, unique and flat out funny. Rather sweet too.
It's over. I loved these characters. Addie is seriously one of my favorite characters. I definitely laughed out loud quite a few times. I'm sad that this great series is over.
If you like a slightly psychotic, hilariously outspoken female character who handles not one but seven sexy, protective men alongside the end of the world outbreak of ragers, then this series is for you. Even if that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, you should read this series. It was a perfect ending for these characters. I laughed - alot, my heart broke a couple of times, the sex - damn hot. I don't want to say bye to these guys.
So overall a pretty decent RH series. The introductions to the characters in the first book really hook you and they become more endearing as the series progresses. The newer characters are positive additions and each definitely has their own personality.
SERIES OVERALL
1. So for the most part the books consist of a series of life-threatening situations. Post-apocalyptic so makes sense right? Except it totally skimps on many of the relationship development scenes. Like all the scenes in the months after she breaks her leg- we aren’t shown any of those and I think they could have been really fun reads to counter all of the other depressing aspects. I think there are other feel good aspects that could’ve been mixed in too. Like any conversation with Nikolai. He’s present, but there are very few moments when they are together. YET, I feel like a get a good read on each character.
2. There are a lot of sexual things discussed but never shown in scene. For being an RH, it’s pretty tame, even though they talk as if it’s not the case. We just don’t get to see it happen. The epilogue is really where we get the most on this front, which is disappointing because a lot of the fun of these books are seeing the relationships develop on both the emotional AND physical front. Though, it also makes sense why they waited a bit.
3. There’s just a lot of repetition on the personalities of the harem. I get it, Addie would think about them a lot, but I don’t need to read the same things about them multiple times. I ended up skimming bits of those. Any dreams (especially the one where she recovers from a gunshot wound) I didn’t need as much of either. I’d rather have real life scenes of them together as opposed to how she dreams them. HOWEVER I know a lot of her character growth comes from these.
4. Finally Addie. Her word vomit in the beginning is quirky and funny and cute at first. Then it gets to be too much. By book 4, it’s slightly irritating and really not that funny and appears to be reaching. In book 1, it was mostly her saying her thoughts aloud and misunderstanding some convos without as many ramblings. She almost seemed to develop the ramblings as she went, and they got tedious. But again, she was a likeable MC for the most part.
Recommend if you like RH, dystopian, zombie apocalypse, quick reads.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Katie May and I have a click. It's hard to explain why her books work so well for me, but I assume it's because May writes with emotion, with love and most of all with the journey of the characters in mind. I was therefore really looking forward to read the last book in this series, to discover how this series would end. There were so many loose ends to tie up and so many issues still to tackle. I was quite curious if it could be done in just one book.
I guess it helps that this book is about a hundred pages bigger than the previous books in the series. However, the story really needs it. So much has happened in the previous books, so many things are not even close to be solved when we start this book and we have a few characters in some really nasty situations. Combine that with May taking her time to explore the emotions of her characters and those extra pages are needed and well used.
Plot wise and world building wise not everything is "solved" in the end. I can understand that some people aren't too happy with that, but I kinda loved that. It really made the characters the stars of this story. This story isn't about saving the world. This story isn't about finding some sort of paradise. It's about a group of people finding each other in the hardest of times and figuring out what kind of future they want to have together.
At times the book was heartbreaking, at times the book was touching, at times the book was funny (I mean, our heroine is hilarious and I love how she has not stopped speaking her inner thoughts out loud by accident) and the finale of the book was really thrilling. Our characters are facing quite some challenges this book, but the Christmas novella (I read the collection edition with the complete series and some bonus material) at the end made me close the book with a smile on my face.
I finished this series in 3 days, it was a quick and easy read, but It left me feeling like those 3 days were wasted. I loved the storyline of a girl in an apocalypse finding safe haven with 7 men. The characters were fun. However it was so unrealistic and repetitive that it hurt. Initially I thought it was cute how she “spoke her thoughts out loud” but after the 276th time, I was over it. I loved the protectiveness but I hated the repeated kidnappings. I feel like this could have easily been just a love story with zombies, but instead the author takes you to what feels like 5 different universes with abusive parents, crazy ex-girlfriends, military uncles, a sudden cure in FMC blood, weather anomalies, etc. In adding all this extra crap to the story, it really took away from the relationship aspects. I understand trying to write about 7 men in love with 1 girl is tough, but we could have gone so much deeper into their relationships instead of repeating the same plot over & over (kidnapping, injuries). I would have loved to have seen more of Tamson and Asher. it feels like the story skipped over all the romance aspects just to get to the end of the story where her blood is the “cure” yet it doesn’t make a difference at all? So essentially FMC was the key to surviving the worm but only for ten minutes? what’s the point? I started off in love with this story in book 1, holding to hopes that we could delve more into the characters and how they fall in love with FMC. Unfortunately this was not the case.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This book was a damn rollercoaster from start to finisb, one second your laughing at something Addie says the next your reading them stab a rager. This was a great ending to Addie and her guys's story, this new world that has been created is pretty amazing and maybe one day there will be more stories told in it, which I would never say no to. I loved that we finally got answers for so many things we wanted to know from the last few books, like who was after Addie and why, what Fallen was hidding, who eventually lives and who dies and if they get their Happily Ever After in this crazy world. Also I didn't know if I could have loved these characters more than I did before but I totally did, I mean the guys were so adorable with Addie, Addie herself was fun to read till the end and Tommy and Nik were so cute (kinda want a little novella about them when they're older). I'm sad to see this story end but hopefully it's only a goodbye for now.
I enjoyed most of this series. I liked the weird yet sort of familiar apocalypse. I enjoyed the adventures and LOVED Addie's weirdness.
I thought the whole parents situation was not handled well throughout the series. At one point they're so powerful even the police won't touch them to somehow they were just funkiest. It was like the author had two great plots and couldn't pick one so she just rolled them together. Not a bad idea, just not a stellar execution. They guys being part of somr basically spy and assassin school was ridiculous and unbelievable.. ESPECIALLY when you factor in Elena and her team. I think the author could benefit from another round of editing, just to cut out the unnecessary and clear up the stuff that doesn't really add up or flow well.
All in all I was thoroughly entertained, so this won't be the last book I read of this author.
Satisfying conclusion amazing characters Amazing Story amazing book elevates genre
This is my favorite completed series. When I started all four books were out. In the series was great throughout. You get the scenes that you want thank goodness LOL cuz there are certain things I like definitely wanted and I was very happy to get them I was very happy that there was a long epilogue that made the ending. I am sad that there's not more books I really liked the turn Asher's character took and I would have liked that explored even more but I mean it was explored pretty well same with Fallon scese but that's just because they were favourites luckily I get my Callie fix. Each one of the guys was fantastic in this series I really love how it switch to having the guys points of views later in the series this is a very satisfying conclusion where you learned a lot about what was going on with the world and Addie and her past and her in the grander scheme of things in the post-apocalyptic world. Also very satisfying after book 3 ending which I'm sure was hard for people who had to wait but like I said luckily all four books were out. I really enjoyed this read the series really elevates the genre and Addie is a female main character a strong heroine her attitude her thinking allowed her nicknames she's so real I just I love the character maybe I can relate to her I've always liked to characters like that but I've also like that she can be vulnerable to but I also like that she lets herself be taken care of by her guys while also taking care of her guys you get the best of both worlds cuz I like both I like a girl who gets rescued by the guy and I like a girl who also is protective of the guy and I like guys who are protective of the girl I like Alphas all around Addie character was just so amazing and so we're the guys but the way a d was written that character that character it's one of the best female characters I have come across in any medium in a really long time maybe ever I just love her so much it's just so me her ramblings her musings her nicknames she is a brilliant character. And this is a brilliant series from how it started in the pacing how it ended to all the plot points just all of it this is my favorite completee series in any genre i just hope that there is some spin-offs because that would be amazing cuz I do want more I love it although again the conclusion was satisfying but the characters are just too good or even if it's solid other characters
I can't believe this series of books have finished. I need to no more. No I want more. I love every single book all the men, Addie, Tommy and little Nic. The heartbreak ,the ups and downs. I could go on but I don't want to bore you with my rambling. I would love to see a spin off series. I highly recommend this series one of the best I have read in a long time.
Alright, last book! Finally all the answers! And still some things left unsolved. But that’s more realistic actually. But we do get wrap ups for all those mystery questions about Addie’s life. After she gets kidnapped!!! Again!!!! Why is this a RH staple. I swear, at the end of the year I’m going to look through my reviews and see how many books feature this plot line lol Either way. Good wrap up. And she never lost that habit of saying her thoughts out loud lol
I can't say how much I love these books! Each book touched my heart and definitely got me 🔥🔥 and bothered. Lol! Just a great story and such a happy ending to a new beginning for Adelaide and her men. It was a perfect way to end the story. Tommy I have to mention was the best father figure and the best sarcastic sass of a kid. He's my favorite second to Adelaide. Lol!
The final book in the series! I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it after how book 3 left off. The answers are finally here! What a trip this series has been, plenty of trauma but also a lot of love and friendship, all within a post-apocalyptic world. What else could you ask for? I’m usually a sucker for prologues in the future to have a little window into the character’s future but for some reason this one just didn’t do it for me. Doesn’t take away from the story at all though
I loved 🥰 this series! It was full of love, passion and hope. Addie and her seven were delicious characters, and so easy to love. The ending was great, but I would’ve liked them all to be together at the end, and to have seen how they handled being parents = maybe some kind of book on them now? Definitely recommend reading this series.
Can I just say that Addie is my hero. Yep all kinds of hero worship from me on her. Now, thank you Katie May for not only keeping me interested in a tale,(my adhd kinda vets in the way) put also tearing my heart out, ripping it apart and rebuilding it. This was so well written, and like the last I loves it plus there was satisfying ending to the series as well.
Well I'm glad it's over. Really i was expecting her to survive a nuclear bomb through this book. this was just a silly story in the end with silly things happening. It was almost like the author wanted each book to be more dramatic then the last one but failed. the characters weren't great and they just all seemed like a group of psycho's more then anything. She's not the cure but her blood can kill the worms. Her parents finally got what was coming to them and they finally got to life in this post apocalyptic world.
I laughed ( so hard ), I cried ( even harder ) and fell in love with thus series. Addie is the quirkiest, think out loud character. This book has everything, post apocalyptic, romance, comedy,suspense.... It's dark but not too dark. Katie May, I am so happy I found this series, thank you
This book just really left me in an awe every single chapter. It made me laugh so damn much and the serious moments were so painful as well. The only thing I wanted more from this book was Ducky. I felt like Declan was often left out or didn't have a lot of time with her. But still, this series was beautiful.
I’m rounding up but honestly it’s more like 3.5 stars, the ending wasn’t bad but it wasn’t necessarily great either. I wish we had more time with the guys just getting to know them, especially Declan. The focus was a lot more on her and outside influences in this book so the the relationship with the guys took a back seat.
All in all a good book and a genuinely enjoyable series!
Was expecting 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 . Got 🌶. But that’s ok, still have each book 5 stars. Very funny, my only complain is the author kept trying to invent new words. “Shest” isn’t going to happen 😉 If you’re looking for a reverse harem book series with a great storyline and minimal (like not until the 3rd book) spicy scenes and a lot of humor, this is the series for you
No puedo creerlo qué viaje de libro te recomiendo un millón por ciento espectacular no fue tan spicy como pensé que iba a ser es decir siete pero la historia el mundo la autora creó un libro perfecto me voy a animar a leer otra saga de ella a ver qué tal me va Espero no decepcionarme Porque esta saga fue perfecta
The speaking of Eddie's thoughts out loud is hilarious! This is a great series and a panty wetter. Make sure to read. I bet Katie May is funny as hell, I laughed so much.
I loved the ending!! This book was another non stop action from the beginning to the end, the heat level also skyrocketed!! I'm so sorry to see it end, this book will be in my reread folder. Wow 5 stars!!