The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. Small red caps at the top read “Are you prepared?”. The author’s name “Katie Henry” is written at the bottom in large red caps. The background is bright yellow. In the centre, a soup can. There’s a picture of a red and a yellow tomato in the centre of the can. Below the tomatoes, the silhouette of a city scape with a bridge and skyscrapers. A peeling label has been placed over the centre of the can. A red pentagon is at the top of the can. Yellow caps in the pentagon read “Let’s call it a”. Large black caps across the label read “Doomsday”. “Doomsday” is underlined. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Intrusive Thoughts
• Panic Attacks
• Drug Use
• Swearing
• Biphobia

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Summary:

There are so many ways the world could end. There could be a fire. A catastrophic flood. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. What she doesn’t expect is meeting Hannah Marks in her therapist’s waiting room. Hannah calls their meeting fate. After all, Ellis is scared about the end of the world; Hannah knows when it’s going to happen.

Despite Ellis’s anxiety — about what others think of her, about what she’s doing wrong, about the safety of her loved ones — the two girls become fast friends. As Ellis tries to help Hannah decipher the details of her doomsday premonition, she learns there are secrets Hannah isn’t telling her. But with time ticking down, the search for answers only raises more questions. When does it happen? Who will believe them? How do you prepare for the end of the world when it feels like your life is just getting started?

Katie Henry, the author of Heretics Anonymous, delivers an engrossing and thoughtful tale about how people survive — with some faith in family, friends, and maybe a few prepper forums.

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Notes:

The MC of this book is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

There is an audiobook.

There is a kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

I feel like I need to add that a lot of the reviews have mentioned that the portrayal of anxiety in this book is very severe, and some of the reviewers who had anxiety wished that they’d known beforehand as it was a difficult read for them.

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