That being said, Olivia is also one of the least consistent characters I've ever come across. I guess that part where she denied being fed with meat triggered a lot of starving meat-lovers out there.

That's one of the coping mechanisms we have at our disposal and to put many unpalatable labels on her just because her psyche dealt with 'the end of the world' in a less logical and effective manner than readers expected? That's a simplistic approach. Nonetheless, her attitude can be easily explained: people often stick to old habits and cling to the things that once constituted normalcy to them. Her survival skills indeed suck and I have no idea how she had been surviving on her own for almost half a year. In the post-apocalyptic world, her vegetarian status might seem stupid, irrelevant and even bratty to many. I tried to find a negative review for this book that captures the story's weak points, so I could let it go and not write a review myself (savvy bitch that I am), but all I came across were the complaints about Olivia (h) and her irrelevant first-world problems and I thought huh? that's the worst you can? 🤕Īlthough Olivia is not one of my favorite heroines, far from it, I wouldn't say that the book's major issue was her adamant refusal to eat meat after having been starved for days. If this hero got paid every time he asked the heroine ' what's wrong with you', he'd be richer than Zuckerberg - one of his key personality traits too. Sensitive readers should be mindful of mature themes, including violence, mention of sexual assault, sexuality, death, and starvation.Ģ.5 stars. It is not a closed-door romance, but it is low on the spice scale. Moonshine is a slow burn new adult romance in a dystopian/end of the world setting. After all, no one survives the end of the world alone. The longer I look, the more I begin to see the man behind the harsh words and unkempt beard.Īs reluctant as he is to keep me, Joshua just might need me. At a glance, he seems to be nothing more than an off-kilter backwoods prepper with a grudge against humanity. It’s hard to earn his trust and even harder to keep it.

With a cabin, a farm, and a lifetime of survival skills, Joshua was the perfect companion for the apocalypse.

Death was on my heel when I landed at the feet of an unwilling savior.

That hope was quickly snuffed out, leaving me all alone in the world. I fled the west coast with a small group, chasing a sliver of hope. There was power rumored in the east, settlements with wind energy that were still thriving amidst the chaos. One minute there was Instagram and ice cream and the next, nothing. What I didn’t expect was that I would change into someone starving, filthy, and prone to sleeping tangled in blackberry bushes to protect myself from predators of the animal and human variety. When I started college in Seattle, I expected that I would change.

Moonshine by kat bostick