The Last Bookstore On Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold (2025)
Frightening and heartbreaking, this is the end of the world as experienced by two teen girls thrown together in a struggle to survive.......and somehow struggling with their growing connection to each other.
In the uncomfortably nearby future, Mother Earth's uncontrollable climate takes an apocalyptic turn with lethal acid storms that wipe out all but isolated pockets of humanity. In a pocket all to herself sits 17 year old Liz, now the sole proprietor and resident of the abandoned bookstore where she used to work. A few wandering stragglers left alive stop in to trade their random valued items for books, interrupting Liz's solitude. But then Maeve, another teen girl breaks into the store for a longer stay and she's Liz's opposite in every possible way....except one. Maeve's own terrible ordeals toughened her enough to stay alive and she's got the practical skills that could help Liz turn the bookstore into an acceptable shelter. And it's a shelter they'll desperately need since another toxic storm is heading their way.
Liz and Maeve's separately tragic stories slowly bring them together as more than just colliding survivors. You'll feel your heart aching for them as they find a way to a working, uneasy friendship and then on to genuine deep affection. And all of this occurs as the girls face one life threatening challenge after another...what's worse, there's more than the storm coming for them.....
Believe me, that makes for a glued-to-the-pages, can't-put-it-down book.
If you're willing to endure and plunge into the nightmarish scenario that author Lily Braun-Arnold so vividly envisions, "The Last Bookstore on Earth" takes you on the kind of emotional ride that's well worth the read.
In the uncomfortably nearby future, Mother Earth's uncontrollable climate takes an apocalyptic turn with lethal acid storms that wipe out all but isolated pockets of humanity. In a pocket all to herself sits 17 year old Liz, now the sole proprietor and resident of the abandoned bookstore where she used to work. A few wandering stragglers left alive stop in to trade their random valued items for books, interrupting Liz's solitude. But then Maeve, another teen girl breaks into the store for a longer stay and she's Liz's opposite in every possible way....except one. Maeve's own terrible ordeals toughened her enough to stay alive and she's got the practical skills that could help Liz turn the bookstore into an acceptable shelter. And it's a shelter they'll desperately need since another toxic storm is heading their way.
Liz and Maeve's separately tragic stories slowly bring them together as more than just colliding survivors. You'll feel your heart aching for them as they find a way to a working, uneasy friendship and then on to genuine deep affection. And all of this occurs as the girls face one life threatening challenge after another...what's worse, there's more than the storm coming for them.....
Believe me, that makes for a glued-to-the-pages, can't-put-it-down book.
If you're willing to endure and plunge into the nightmarish scenario that author Lily Braun-Arnold so vividly envisions, "The Last Bookstore on Earth" takes you on the kind of emotional ride that's well worth the read.
5 stars (*****)
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