The Dark Days: End of the World – Episode 1 by Ginger Gelsheimer and Taylor Anderson is a YA thriller about teen Claudia Sheeplord and the end of the world via asteroid.
Claudia has been skeptical about the blather over the past month about the killer asteroid that will slam into the Earth and raise the tides ten feet higher. Or two miles higher. Whatever. She is flying to Denver for her brother’s tongue-in-cheek wedding at the end of the world. At least she meets a new friend sitting across the airplane isle, Ben Willoby.
Then the asteroid hits the Earth in a double-whammy strike that all but swats the jet out of the sky. A sickening nosedive, followed by the pilot’s frantic acrobatics in inky-black skies, is the start of Claudia’s adventures. Getting out of Denver’s demolished airport is trivial compared to the world’s oceans paying the Mile High City a deadly visit.
This sweet panic-filled short story tells the events that preceded the dystopian world in the Hunger Games.
It starts so normally from a teen girl’s sensibilities in the first few pages, and turns into a desperate scramble of survival with Ben and other survivors at the end. Hunger Games fans would love this well written taster story. The action should also satisfy the Gentle Readers who like white-knuckled thrillers. Before jumping in, be sure you put on winter boots and have your rubber ducky ready.
The Dark Days: End of the World – Episode 1 on Amazon US
The Dark Days: End of the World – Episode 1 on Amazon UK
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Lita Burke 
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