American Rapture follows Sophie as she tries to find her twin brother Noah in the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse in Wisconsin. Sophie has spent her life growing up in a sheltered, religious community without access to television, the internet, or even newspapers. When a viral apocalypse hits that sends the US into turmoil, she comes home to her parents having succumbed to the virus in the...unique way that this one hits. 

Throughout the book, Sophie is reckoning with her religious upbringing and how she has seen the world for her entire life - much of her inner thoughts deal with this and how she thinks about attraction, which is also complicated by the virus's side effects. 

I really enjoyed the different elements coming from Wisconsin as someone who lived there for a long while and thought the premise was very interesting. In the end though, I had a hard time connecting with Sophie and found a lot of her thought processes to be rather melodramatic. This does make sense in the context of the book given that Sophie is 16, but meant that it just didn't quite work for what I typically enjoy reading. 

I listened to this as an audiobook and thought the narrator did a great job bringing Sophie to life and would recommend it for sure. 

Thank you very much to NetGalley and to MacMillan audio for the advanced copy.