Ratings6
Average rating3.3
White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapped on an island resort after the sun literally explodes, and suddenly must choose whether to save himself from the chaos, or help the fellow guests make it off the island alive…
Vacation Checklist: Pack swim trunks. Apply sunscreen. Survive the apocalypse?
Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best, and yeah, he's never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in paradise with his girlfriend, Mara, things are starting to look up.
Then the sun explodes.
With the island resort suddenly plunged into darkness (he really should've sprung for the travel insurance), Dan's holiday goes from bad to worse when elite guests stage a coup and commandeer supplies. As temperatures drop and class tensions rise, revolution begins to brew on the island, and Dan accidentally becomes a beacon of hope for the surviving vacationers. But when one six-person plane is discovered that could get them back to the mainland, Dan realizes he has a choice to make.
Does he escape the island with Mara? Or does he stay and fight to become the most unlikely hero of the end of the world?
Reviews with the most likes.
The storyline was excellent. Loved the plot, loved the sun disappears and the whole island goes into a lord of the flies type situation but with snobby adults...
Didn't love the characters. They were all unlikeable and super annoying. I only need to love one character in a book and this one THUMBS DOWN.
I felt disconnected because of it but thats a personal thing to me.
I'm sure I am in the minority!
3.5 stars
Underachieving, snarky white guy with inexplicably smart, caring, financially stable and of course hot girlfriend try to survive dystopian hell on a luxury island resort when the sun explodes. Not surprisingly, the white guy realizes that what he wanted to do all along is to become a writer.
The story features intermittent humor, broad social satire, and a high body count. Plus a denouement twist that I should have seen coming. Three stars, do recommend but with some reservations.