On the eve of Earth's destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.
It's only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it's Samantha's job to catalogue plant samples for the survivors' unknowable journey beyond.
Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection.
As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.
Veronica Roth's Ark is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.
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[Samantha's hands were still red from the cold, the skin over her knuckles taut and dry]***
(Amazon Original Stories, 17 September 2019, 39 pages, ebook, borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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So I've never read any of Roth's work. That's strange considering how much I enjoyed the Divergent films. This is an okay story but nothing brilliant and it's not terrible either. It's one of those stories that sit somewhere between rubbish and great. It's a very slow story which I wasn't expecting. It offers a very nostalgic look at earth and the fact there's still so much to be discovered that people don't know or understand. The trouble is I didn't feel any connection to the characters which left me a little cold. Ark and the characters and events in it are easily forgettable. I'm sorry but this didn't really work for me.
