'The World Without A Future' By Nazarea Andrews

A Review

By Alexa DemersPublished 6 years ago • 3 min read

She was born the day the world ended…Nurrin has lived her entire life with zombies—trapped behind walls meant to keep them safe. She’s mostly happy there. But when a zombie horde breach the walls of her Haven, she has to trust her brother, Collin, and his best friend to keep her alive. He just wants his past to die…Finn O’Malley has given up on voicing warnings that are ignored. No one cares that the zombies are changing. Now all that matters is keeping Collin and Nurrin safe from what’s outside the walls of a Haven. But when Nurrin’s best friend picks up a contact infection, he agrees to get the medicine needed to save his life. Forced together, relying on each other in a strange Haven, zombies aren’t the most dangerous thing they’re facing.In their world, only one thing remains true: everything ends in blood.

Before I get into my review I want to tell you why I was hesitant to even download it; TV, movies, comic books, and novels are all saturated with the notion of zombies. There is something for everyone out there and sadly a lot of them miss the mark. It might not be true, but once you have experienced a couple zombie plot lines it feels like you experienced them all. Now I was skimming through Amazon and found the cover to this book and I was immediately interested, once I read the synopsis, not so much. On this book went to the end of my black pit of a TBR list and I moved on. One night I was flipping through my Kindle and this cover caught my eye again. Within the first couple pages I realized how very wrong I was about this book.

“I was with my parents-my father and his best friend sat side by side, watching on a tiny monitor as the horde from Atlanta slammed into the troops from Fort Benning and everything- every fucking thing we’ve ever known or would know-stopped.”

Ren, oh my dear Ren, she is one of our two beloved main characters. I have not found many female characters, in books, that don’t irritate me. We see Ren as an angry but sheltered girl growing up in a world that is fighting for its last breath. Not only do we get to see her angry but we get to see her strong, courageous, and downright scary. She is not a character you are going to love because she can’t live without a guy. You are going to love her because she holds her own against a person that most people run from. Ren has her vulnerabilities, her weak moments, and her scared moments but she lives with them and she does it with her head held high. Does this mean she is the perfect character? No, there are moments you’ll be frustrated for sure, but she is worth it.

“It’s the seventh of March. The day the world stopped. It began, twenty years ago, in blood. It ended in death and smoke, fire and ash.”

In this book, being soft gets you killed and Finn is anything but soft. Finn was an interesting character for me only because I couldn’t ever pin down exactly how I felt about him. He’s surly, mean, and completely content to walk the world alone. Finn has a guard up and he doesn’t let anyone in except Colin and even Colin doesn’t get all the way in. He is definitely a complex character and one that I am going to have to learn to love. Finn is the exact opposite, in many ways, of Ren. Finn is not naive to what the world has become and he hasn’t forgotten what the world once was. He is exactly the person you would think someone who has lost everything would be. I have high hopes for Finn and his character arc.

“I hate questions. Despise them. Why don’t people get that questions are just a way to lie. The answers don’t mean anything- they aren’t earned, they’re given for nothing. How could they mean anything?”

A book like this may be labeled YA but it is definitely focused more towards the older young adults. It is a dark and violent read that has underlying storylines that makes this story much more than just zombies. There is very much a sense of two sides of a coin, the world before and the world after zombies. The way personalities, love, vulnerability, and what it mean to be scared are different before and after the world ends. The story is written in two different points of views which adds to the two sides theme. As the reader you get to see how each of the characters view the world and what they feel they need to do to survive. The writing is very well done in this book. While it does have its mistakes, the depth of the story and the characters really make up for anything you may or may not find. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was a story that I could imagine perfectly in my mind, one that I got lost in.

“You can’t live in fear of the day the zombies batter down your door — that isn’t living. You live in spite of that day. You live because everything in our screwed-up world says we can’t and we shouldn’t and fuck them.” He looks around and shakes his head. “But this isn’t living. Hiding in a hole is just a slow way die.”