Ruby is not the most sympathetic teenage heroine in literature, though she has a soft spot for pets and kids, if they are cute. To a point of being an idiotic (suicidal) about it. She survives the apocalypse mostly by sheer luck despite her stupidity and determination to self destruction, snobbery, and focus on decorating herself in looted goods. This despite her Dad drilling her in the art of survival and THINK before u ACT to live and survive. And to save your self... before he got tricked into drinking poison water. Which taught her NOTHING. She is a 16yr old with the self control and mind of a 11 yr old. Looting Boutiques, instead of looking for essentials. The look she seems to be inadvertently going for is 15-year-old fashion clown, which gets old after a while. I expected her to grow, but she does not. She is rescued by a nerd boy whom she treats like a bug under her fashionable flipflop. Belittling him for being geared up in garbage bags and seating in them (stinking) unfashobly. Ummm Like jewel crusted flip-flops are perfect foot covering to protect u from killer rain. She is your TSTO (too stupid to live) main narrator and only so much can excuse her being a teenager. Not every teenage kid id this lv of stupid. The fact that she is still alive at the end of the book if more of an haleluyah moment then I thought possible. Now dont get me wrong, the book is well written, it flows beautifully and draws the reader in. The subject has been done many times over has a new spin and is nicely worked. And despite the writer killing off anyone with a moderate decorum of a brain power and having the gir that should have died 1000,000 deaths in the first 15 pages making it to the open end and a sequel I hear is quite an accomplishment. Solid entertaining read actually. 7/10

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