(Available July 2)

Thanks to Chuck Wendig, Random House Ballantine, and Netgalley for providing me with a digital advance copy of this novel. I am a big fan of well-written dystopian fiction — Station Eleven, The Stand, and The Passage are among my all-time favorite novels — so I had high hopes for Wanderers. Wendig has written a novel sweeping in scope (and massive in length – 800+ pages!), with engaging characters and a plot that seems all too possible. Terrifying yet heartwarming, this book was almost impossible to put down, and I was actually sad to see it come to an end (I might add that I didn’t love the ending). It did not have the lyrical hope of Station Eleven, nor the literary depth of The Passage, and nothing reaches the heights of The Stand, but if you are longing for a good story in this genre, give this one a try. Highly recommend.