First Impression Friday – The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker

Welcome to another First Impression Friday. In case this is your first time, here’s the rundown:

• Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions
and predict what you’ll think by the end.
• Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think
you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right?
• Link back to Storeys of Stories so I can enjoy reading all the
First Impression Fridays out there!

When the world ends and you find yourself forsaken, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar Hill. Stranded on the other side of the country from his wife and children, Ed must push himself across a devastated wasteland to get back to them. With the clock ticking and hundreds of miles between them, his best hope is to run — or risk losing what he loves forever.

Let’s talk about The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker.

I can’t remember who recommended this one to me, but someone, somewhere said that it seemed like the kind of book I would love. So far, in the early runnings, it’s proving to be a book I don’t hate. There’s still a lot of book left, and a few things that I do find really interesting.

I don’t read too many books these days where I can see myself—as a middle-age father of young children—represented on the page, but this is one of them. This mirror-like MC even voices a handful of opinions that her and I share. So that aspect has been really enjoyable and interesting. Then the world starts to end. And this dude starts to act like the complete opposite of me (I hope!)

I’m looking forward to finishing, but I’m not clearing my schedule or anything.

My Prediction: 3 to 3.5 stars

Fun fact about this post: Does anyone else see the irony of a book with RUNNING in the title that was written by a dude with the name WALKER?!