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I started and ended the year with Vivian Apple. As Vivian continues her quest against the villainous Church of America which is busy at work deluding people and monetizing the apocalypse, she becomes a little less normal human being navigating the apocalypse and a little more “Vivian Apple, unlikely action hero.” As such, I preferred the first book but this one was still good and a satisfying conclusion to Viv‘s story. #bookspinbingo

Another roller-coaster ride with Viv and Harp. These girls are fierce and honest and funny and tough.

A busy Sunday for me, but not my cats! I loaded up my car with donations (almost 100 books plus other stuff), got a few groceries, dropped off the boxes at goodwill, spent a couple of hours at my mom's house where we called my Aunt and talked about genealogy, came home, took care of my neighbors' house, and am 4 loads of laundry deep so far. Really want to spend some time w this book and try Bookout, but may end up smooching Chico here instead.

My cold black heart is completely anti-romance but if you take the BOYS! out of this novel (maybe if it were written for an adult audience rather than YA) it would be perfect. Clever and scary and just fun to read! (note: not disparaging YA novels it just seems that romance is a prerequisite and that's just not something I am personally into)

Finished the audiobook today! Solid sequel, and Coyle had clever ways to get the plot moving again when she wrote herself towards a stall. I like the first book better but the books together have a very, very richly painted world of a religious and cultural apocalypse and a girl and her friends trying to survive. Still very fresh, feminist, and timely.

Audiobook sequel to one of the most interesting and timely YA books I've read, about a Rapture predicted by a fictional, overly commercial religion that could have been founded by Trump, narrated by one of the most fierce and feminist young woman narrators to be written? Yes please!!! Short drives = more listening time. Thanks Audible!

ILL came through, so we head back into the apocalyptic world of Vivian Apple.

3🌟 I really wanted Vivian Apple's story to have a better ending(?) than this. The first book was an original 5🌟 great YA novel, but every move in this book was predictable. It just made me sad. I guess I recommend it if you've read the first, but maybe you should just imagine a better ending. 😕

Just finished Only Love. Still processing. Had to start Vivan Apple even though it's late. I've been eagerly awaiting this sequel! I wish I could read the end of book one again. It's doing pretty okay at catching me up, though.

Humorous. Action-packed. Teenage romance. Church scandal. A good sequel to "Vivian Apple at the End of the World." If you want a light and funny YA read, then pick these two up :)

Enjoyed the first one and I hope this one goes just as well. Nothing like reading a good book (hopefully) while enjoying a good pastrami! Haha

Any idiot can see the planet is dying. Can you imagine what would happen if we told ourselves it was all our fault, rather than the righteous course of an angry God? The guilt would be unbearable, Vivian.

Just finished Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle by Katie Coyle. What an incredible book about badass teenagers. I wanted to be best friends with Vivian and Harp all over again. Thanks for this one, Katie. I can't wait to read what you're working on now.