TITLE: WILDFLOWERS
GENRE: AN END OF THE WORLD ROMANCE BOOK
AUTHOR: KYLIE SCOTT
PUBLICATION: JULY 08TH, 2025
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Synopsis
Don’t miss this heart pounding apocalyptic romance from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott!
There’s only one person Dean Wallace wants to save from the end of the world: sunshine girl from across the street. She’s always smiling. Who knows, maybe she can teach him a thing or two about how to live? But saving her against her will is harder than he expected.
Astrid Hardy doesn’t know what to think when she wakes up in her hot neighbor’s basement. He says he wants to protect her from the deadly virus threatening to collapse society. But that sounds like paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense, and losing her sh*t seems like the correct response.
As they watch the downfall of the world play out online, hear approaching gunshots, and smell smoke from nearby burning buildings, it all starts to seem horribly realistic. With almost everyone they know dead, and law and order gone…how will they navigate this new world together?
There’s only one person Dean Wallace wants to save from the end of the world: sunshine girl from across the street. She’s always smiling. Who knows, maybe she can teach him a thing or two about how to live? But saving her against her will is harder than he expected.
Astrid Hardy doesn’t know what to think when she wakes up in her hot neighbor’s basement. He says he wants to protect her from the deadly virus threatening to collapse society. But that sounds like paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense, and losing her sh*t seems like the correct response.
As they watch the downfall of the world play out online, hear approaching gunshots, and smell smoke from nearby burning buildings, it all starts to seem horribly realistic. With almost everyone they know dead, and law and order gone…how will they navigate this new world together?
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My Review
RATING 3.5 STARS
So when I saw this one doing the rounds, I was beyond excited to jump in and sign up, especially with the fact that this is one of my favorite genres lately. So as soon as it landed on my ipad/kindle, I jumped right in..
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Deadly virus outbreak
Survival
Captor x Captive
Age Gap 42 & 33
Ex-Marine
Grumpy & sunshine vibes
Opposites attract
I kind of struggled with this one..
There's a deadly virus going around that's killed millions and it's still not finished with society yet, others quickly fall to its demise. Dean has inside intel about this virus and the one person he wants to save is his clueless neighbour Astrid.
So you've read the blurb and know that he's kidnapped her and put her in a fenced in cage in his basement. Sounds dark and gritty, but the weird thing about it was that it didn't come across like that at all. She took it in her stride, and at some point even seemed to joke about it..
But when smoke and other survivalists start making themselves known around the neighbourhood searching house to house Dean knows it's their time to leave. And yet the pace seemed fast from one place to the next. Though the mention of a place they wanted to check out named 'Wolf Creek' had me thinking of the real Wolf Creek in Australia (if you've seen the movie you'll know) so that kind of had me freaking out a bit. Even in my head I was yelling do not go there lol
The whole book just felt rushed, and a little bit off if I'm being completely honest. I felt no connection towards the characters, and the heroine slowly started to do my head in with her one liners at the most inappropriate times. I expected more from her. Rage at being kidnapped, more sadness after realising that family and close friends are more than likely dead, more empathy, instead of being cautious when it came to other survivors she was like a labrador, ready to meet and greet. She just came across ditzy and clueless and I didn't warm up towards her at all.
Dean pretty much carried this book, he was wary when he should've been, he had the right survival instincts to get them to where they needed to be and he was beyond prepared for the end of the world. In all honesty I think if he'd not taken those drastic steps to kidnap Astrid she'd most likely be dead like many others..
So when I saw this one doing the rounds, I was beyond excited to jump in and sign up, especially with the fact that this is one of my favorite genres lately. So as soon as it landed on my ipad/kindle, I jumped right in..
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Deadly virus outbreak
Survival
Captor x Captive
Age Gap 42 & 33
Ex-Marine
Grumpy & sunshine vibes
Opposites attract
I kind of struggled with this one..
There's a deadly virus going around that's killed millions and it's still not finished with society yet, others quickly fall to its demise. Dean has inside intel about this virus and the one person he wants to save is his clueless neighbour Astrid.
So you've read the blurb and know that he's kidnapped her and put her in a fenced in cage in his basement. Sounds dark and gritty, but the weird thing about it was that it didn't come across like that at all. She took it in her stride, and at some point even seemed to joke about it..
But when smoke and other survivalists start making themselves known around the neighbourhood searching house to house Dean knows it's their time to leave. And yet the pace seemed fast from one place to the next. Though the mention of a place they wanted to check out named 'Wolf Creek' had me thinking of the real Wolf Creek in Australia (if you've seen the movie you'll know) so that kind of had me freaking out a bit. Even in my head I was yelling do not go there lol
The whole book just felt rushed, and a little bit off if I'm being completely honest. I felt no connection towards the characters, and the heroine slowly started to do my head in with her one liners at the most inappropriate times. I expected more from her. Rage at being kidnapped, more sadness after realising that family and close friends are more than likely dead, more empathy, instead of being cautious when it came to other survivors she was like a labrador, ready to meet and greet. She just came across ditzy and clueless and I didn't warm up towards her at all.
Dean pretty much carried this book, he was wary when he should've been, he had the right survival instincts to get them to where they needed to be and he was beyond prepared for the end of the world. In all honesty I think if he'd not taken those drastic steps to kidnap Astrid she'd most likely be dead like many others..
