I don't feel like this book was for me at all.

This book follows Anya who along with her husband and son make a plan to journey to their lake house to escape the deadly epidemic that has so far ravaged the land and caused everyone it's come into contact with to die.

Despite how deadly this virus is, Anya's husband Sergey with his need to help keeps inviting people to join this journey with them which makes Anya increasingly nervous. The journey itself is already hard and with a lack of petrol and resources, it's not just the virus they need to watch out for.

I just assumed that a lot more would happen on this journey, I felt like is as told what everyone was feeling and the events that happened were so few and far between that I didn't feel like it was worth it.

The characters themselves were very skewed since it's Anya's POV we get everything from. It means that her feelings towards all these characters were what was shown and for that reason, they never really felt like individuals. Anya also didn't seem to like anyone so the majority of the characters were quite unlikeable too.

For that reason, I also did not feel any set of stakes for anyone. I didn't care enough whether they died or not which I suppose changed how this book was supposed to be read.

The description however was extremely detailed, I could visualise each scene incredibly well but in addition to this, it also meant there was a lot of telling and not showing which got irritating after a while.

Overall, I just wish that more happened but I did finish it because I did want to know what happened. I guess this just wasn't the book for me.