Content levels
Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Synopsis
When a killer comet hurtles for the earth, 18-year-old Joanna Murphy is selected to wait out the apocalypse in an underground bunker. She enters cryosleep with her close-knit team, preparing to resettle the planet after the atmosphere clears in two hundred years. Joanna is the only one who wakes up. Faced with a bunker full of bones and a blocked exit, Joanna must claw her way to the surface, figure out what happened to her team, and try not to panic-or die. That's going to be tricky if she's the only person left in the world. From the author of The Seabound Chronicles, Steel and Fire, and Empire of Talents comes a story of resilience and optimism at the end of the world.
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Is Wake Me After the Apocalypse appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Teen faces apocalyptic survival alone after waking from cryosleep to find her team dead. Contains moderate peril, death themes, and survival situations, but focuses on resilience and hope rather than graphic violence.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, mass death, and abandonment (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be gripped by Joanna's harrowing fight for survival as the last person on Earth after everyone else dies in cryosleep.