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The End of the Road Paperback – June 17, 2020

by Anna Legat (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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The fight for survival has begun.

All-out war spins out of control, and it doesn’t discriminate. Governments fall, continents are obliterated, deadly viruses consume everything in their path, and what’s left of humanity is on the run. Caught in this global refugee crisis are a few unlikely survivors.

Tony, a philandering London lawyer, escapes the doomed city and his own murky past as he evacuates to the continent.

A hapless flock of Belgian nuns prays for a miracle as they watch their city turn to rubble.

Bella, a naïve teenager, thinks she is going on holiday when her father drags her across the globe to New Zealand.

Reggie, a loyal employee of a mining corporation, guards a hoard of diamonds in the African plains, fending off desperate looters.

Alyosha, a nuclear scientist, has been looking for the God-particle in Siberia, but now the world is at an end, he wishes to return home to Chernobyl.

A pair of orphaned children are cowering in the Tatra Mountains, fearing the sky will fall in on them.

Will they find an escape route before it is too late? Or are they doomed to fail?
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    June 17, 2020
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BDSDPFC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (June 17, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8654845160
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.56 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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Anna Legat is best known for her crime thrillers and murder mysteries. Murder isn't the only thing on her mind. She also dabbles in historical fiction, magic realism and dystopia. Apart from writing, Anna has been making a living as a lawyer, a teacher, a silver-service waitress and a librarian (not all at the same time). She has lived in far-flung places but has now settled in a small town near the historical city of Bath.

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Terry Tyler
5.0 out of 5 stars Tying with one other for 'Best Book I've Read This Year'
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020
Brilliant. Absolutely loved it.

The year is 2027, and conflicts between nations reach crisis point - nuclear bombs, nerve gas and chemical weapons, followed by meteor showers, wipe out the entire population of the world, apart from a very few. The End of the Road is the story of those who survive - philandering English lawyer Tony, two nuns in Liege, a scientist in Siberia who lost his family in the Chernobyl disaster forty years before, ditzy vlogger Bella in New Zealand, and a few others.

Some of the scenarios intertwine, and indeed they all do eventually, but I was completely engrossed in each one. There was not a single weak point; when I was reading Reggie, the caretaker of a billion dollar estate in South Africa, I'd got to about 86% and started reading it as slowly as I could because I didn't want it to end.

At first I was a little confused because there are no actual chapters; each new scenario begins with the location and the name, and that's all, and I wished there was a date, because I wasn't sure exactly when they were all taking place, but I soon got used to the unusual structure, and saw that the actual time frame did not need to be stated.

The narrative is stark and shocking, but the characters and their backstories (just enough, never too much) are written with a light touch and, sometimes, a glimmer of humour - and at the end, even though humanity has finally succeeded in wiping itself out (almost), certain areas of hope remain.

This is currently tying with another for the 'best book I've read this year' award - it's fabulous. Can't recommend too highly. And the moral of this story is: don't ignore those passing book tweets. If you think 'that looks interesting', go download it!
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Rajiv
4.0 out of 5 stars Makes you appreciate life
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020
In the author’s own words, reading this story made me feel like I was in “one of Stephen King’s spine-chilling novels”, and I really enjoyed it!

Firstly, the author did an lovely job of writing the story. She describes the events in such a grim and atmospheric manner that gave me goosebumps. With so many attacks and lives lost over the last few decades, it is not hard to visualize a catastrophic event like this happening, which is what makes it so scary and relatable. However, while the plot itself is very dark, the characters still adapt to the circumstances with a glimmer of hope. This is what I really loved about the story. The author highlights that no matter how dire the situation is, mankind always has hope to carry on.

The book splits into three parts, with three different story-lines that all connect to each other. My favorite was the second story with Alyosha and Kuba. Even though I disliked Amelia in this tale, I loved Kuba and his fascination for science. Also, I adored Alyosha and immersed in his quest to reunite with his wife. I also liked the third story with Reggie and Bella. Moreover, Bella balanced the tale with a bit of humor and light-hearted. However, even though the first story line with Agnes and Tony had potential, I really did not like Tony or Agnes. In fact, Agnes scared me with her violent streak. Also, there are some scenes which are overly described that sidetracks from the plot.

Overall, this is one of those stories that resonates in your mind after reading, and makes you appreciate life.
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PAB
5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling original story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2020
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The arresting cover of this quirky novel caught my eye so I decided to try it, even though I’m not a big fan of dystopian fiction. I’m glad I did, because the author’s writing drew me in, especially her ability to create such a diverse and believable set of characters.
The story begins by presenting a dreadful scenario - it really is the end of the road for the human race. We see what happens in the weeks up to the end through the eyes of various characters. First we meet Tony, fleeing to the continent. Bella is a self-obsessed teenager, glued to her phone and intent on vlogging her every waking moment to her audience, even as her family heads to the southern hemisphere in a futile attempt to escape the coming catastrophe. We meet Alyosha, who is determined to return to Chernobyl to spend his final hours in the same place his wife died many years previously. Add to these a group of Belgian nuns, a South African diamond mine security guard, a pair of Eastern European orphans, and you will see how imaginative Ms Legat is, and how skilfully she conveys the character of each individual.
Indeed, the characters became so real to me that I needed to know their ultimate fate - that’s how compelling Ms Legat’s writing is. Filled with pathos, tension, and nail-biting suspense, this really was a story that held my attention. If you are looking for a dark, dystopian tale with an ending that leaves you thinking, and a few twists that you don’t see coming, I recommend this.
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Austrian Spencer
5.0 out of 5 stars If only every book was this well put together.
Reviewed in Germany on August 31, 2020
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Anna Legat has addressed an all consuming horror scenario, that of a nuclear war and the moral breakdown of surviving societies, by concentrating her razor sharp prose and extraordinarily succinct understanding of human nature, and focussed her attention on individuals and their survival stories within that world instead of painting the disaster in its full sadistic glory.
And it's brilliant.
We start with a morally repugnant man and the break up of his comfortable life, only to slap that against a world suddenly gone to hell - the reduction of a man's utter breakdown, to a trivial nothing in relation to the world's own fall. A mirror held up to the reader to clarify the futility of the importance we place on the everyday worth of material things. The world just collapsed. Now survive.

The individual stories are presented flawlessly, for me, the brilliant story of Aleksey will remain with me as a great comparison to hold up to other character arcs in the other books I read this year. The detail in the background is beautifully drawn, from the chess playing friend to the wolf that follows him from the ruins - it's all just magnificent writing. I'm the type of reader that takes notes on what I like and don't like, and I'd already written the excited note "check at the end to see what else she's written" by the end of the first segment. And segment is the correct word, there are no more chapters in this world, and that is reflected, brilliantly, in the breakdown of even that structure. There is only place and time and personality, and Anna has populated her book with personalities you want to see win their own individual nightmares. The small, illustrating the inconceivable.
Mrs Legat, you have a new fan. It was a pleasure.
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Paula R C
4.0 out of 5 stars A real page turner
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2020
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Not my normal read. The story is told from many view points as an array of characters deal with the end of the world as we know it. The structure and the pace of the story is slowly as we get to know the characters. The first being Tony a unfaithful husband, some Belgian Nuns, Bella a teenager with her parents, Reggie, and Alyosha. The storyline is gripping and engaging as you follow their progress. A real page turner.
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Michelle Cook
5.0 out of 5 stars Hopeful dystopia
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2020
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There’s a line in this book towards the end. One of the characters, a white westerner, watches a community of indigenous people preparing to escape disaster and thinks ‘In what way are they better than us? Why do they deserve to live more than we do?’.

I can’t get the line out of my head. I don’t know if the writer intended this, but it makes me think about how much value we put on lives according to where they are lived. How we are more accustomed, desensitised, to seeing people who don’t look like us die. How it seems so much more tragic when it’s people like us.

This isn’t necessarily the focus of The End of the Road. Throughout the book, we follow six people from across a world gone to hell. I mean, these people face war, poisoning, floods, fire and famine. Everything on Earth and beyond is thrown at them. I’m not gonna lie, there’s some grim reading in there. But it’s gripping. And moving. Within the epic frame, there are many small moments of real humanity: weakness, strength, sacrifice and betrayal.

And when the stories finally converge we’re left with hope among the devastation.

A vivid, awe-inspiring and affecting read.
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CAROL MCGRATH
5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo, Anna Legat. A Superb and Vivid Novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2020
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I thought this one of the best near apocalypse books I have read in years. There are various people's voices telling this story and various situations as a Third World War and following meteorite storms or nerve gas attacks come near to destroying humanity. But there will be survivors and this is a survivors' story. In particular I enjoyed the descriptions of the nunnery in Liege and what happened there. I loved Bella and Reggie and fascinating to use Chernobyl as the focus of one journey. It's an absolutely wonderful novel, really beautifully told, as good as if not better than the classic Station Eleven. The structuring in this book is excellent. The characters pull at our heart strings and are incredibly vivid, their stories moving. Such a brilliantly clever novel. I can see how it can continue into a second book and I absolutely hope it does. Highly reccomended.
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