End of the World House

A Novel

By: Adrienne Celt

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma’s Severance in this “brilliant” (PopSugar) and “exhilarating” (The Millions) comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.

Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

When Bertie’s attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next best thing: a trip to Paris that will hopefully distract the duo from their upcoming separation. The vacation is also a sort of last hurrah, coming during the ceasefire in a series of escalating world conflicts.

One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day that keeps repeating itself, Bertie and Kate are eventually separated, and Bertie is faced with a mystery that threatens to derail everything. In order to make her way back to Kate, Bertie has to figure out how much control she has over her future—and her past—and how to survive in an apocalypse when the world keeps refusing to end.

Didn’t like this one at all

This book was so confusing! You are stuck in a loop of someone’s mind and you get zero closure! Just terrible

Not worth the time

Boy what a dog of a book. Really not sure what it is about but all the characters are the most annoying, self absorbed, fools and the narrators voice just reinforces that. She whines and trills, sounding like a bad computerized high pitched screech. There is nothing redeemable here. Wasted credit.

Save your points

Worst book ever! Bad narration, story makes no sense. I can’t believe I made it through the whole thing. Don’t wast your time.