Synopsis
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights, comes Chloe Gong's first adult contemporary novel. How Does It End? is a The Last of Us meets love story.
Before the end of the world, there was the beginning of a love story.
In the heart of New York, two lives intersect at a party. Morgan is transitioning from calculated, soulless influencer fame. Theo is an aspiring screenwriter searching for inspiration anywhere he can find it. The wheels of capitalism are churning. They’re trying not to get eaten alive. They fall in love.
When they break up, it seems like the end of the world. But there are diseases much worse than heartbreak, and Morgan isn’t paying attention when engineered spongiformencephalopathy (ESE) starts to spread like wildfire.
This is the actual end of the world. The sick get sicker. Manhattan is barricaded. Morgan is trapped. Despite Theo desperately trying to get a hold of her, keeping open a passage out. Morgan ventures further into the chaos - rescuing her reluctant mother - and accidentally starts livestreaming, becoming humanity’s glimpse into its own unraveling. As she dodges the infected and the desperate alike, traversing the city in a wild quest for survival, she finds herself retracing her relationship with Theo, dotting the city and its landmarks where they first met, first kissed.
It only takes losing everything to make you realize what you have. After all, what is survival without love?
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Reviews
“A masterful storyteller . . . Chloe Gong’s storytelling is fierce, romantic, and utterly relentless.”Marie Lu
“A high-voltage, whip-smart adventure that presents a future both eerily prescient and totally novel. Pulse-pounding and cinematic, with a twist that knocked the breath from me — I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”Ava Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fable for the End of the World on Coldwire
“The only thing hotter than a character written by Chloe Gong is a betrayal written by Chloe Gong. The scale of world-building and depths of romantic hostility grabbed me by the throat.”Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six.
“A fierce, glittering tapestry of a novel . . . incredibly sharp, high-stakes reimagining filled with lethal politics and unforgettable characters”Samantha Shannon on Immortal Longings
