I picked this book up on the strength of its cover along with a comment on a blog I read, plus the premise of "what happens in the week before the world ends" sounded like a new twist on the typical apocalypse fiction so prevalent today. The setup is simple - an asteroid is going to hit Earth, there's nothing that can be done about it, and there's one week left until it happens. The story follows three teenagers - Zan, Sienna, and Caden - during this last week on their island near Martha's Vineyard.

The writing was okay, with nothing special but nothing wrong with it either. The setting and characters were generally reasonably well done, again pretty mediocre but not bad. The stories...that's where it sort of went to shit. The only story that made sense and that I wanted to follow was Zan's story as she followed clues about what her boyfriend Leo had found and was doing the day before he died a few months ago. Sienna was more interesting before she left the mental health facility (which she does in the first chapter) and her father was a nit, her brother barely drawn, and her father's girlfriend kind of ridiculous. Caden...well, let's just say that his father kidnapping him to start off his story is really all you need to know about that.

None of these teenagers had any respect for their family at the beginning, nor any idea how to look beyond their self-centeredness which is natural at that age. However, for all of them to wrap up the story essentially in big familial hugs made me want to retch. The conflicts of being a teenager torn between friends and family made sense, but for say Sienna to choose friends and then not have the guts to stick to that decision was really annoying.

So yeah. Very meh story overall, with one interesting thread of three, a clue-by-four ending of FAMILY IS BEST OMG, and me being thankful that the book ended with an asteroid hitting the Earth. I really don't recommend this book to anyone, honestly.