Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapped on an island resort after the sun literally explodes, and suddenly must choose whether to save himself from the chaos, or help fellow guests make it off the island alive…
Vacation Checklist:
Pack swim trunks.
Apply sunscreen.
Survive the apocalypse?
Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best, and yeah, he’s never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in paradise with his girlfriend, Mara, things are starting to look up.
Then the sun explodes.
With the island resort suddenly plunged into darkness (he really should’ve sprung for the travel insurance), Dan’s holiday goes from bad to worse when elite guests stage a coup and commandeer supplies. As temperatures drop and class tensions rise, revolution begins to brew on the island, and Dan accidentally becomes a beacon of hope for the surviving vacationers. But when one six-person plane is discovered that could get them back to the mainland, Dan realizes he has a choice to make.
Does he escape the island with Mara? Or does he stay and fight to become the most unlikely hero of the end of the world?
- Pages
- 374
- First published
- August 6, 2024
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
- ISBN
- 9781464218033
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Shelved by 6 Litcadians
Reviews
Started December 1, 2025 · Finished December 2, 2025
Scientifically, this was mildly predictable lol, but the pacing was great, and the plot and characters were well done enough to hold my interest. The narrator was excellent and did different voices really well, I didnt have any trouble telling them apart. This really gets to the root of how society and people react while facing an end of world crisis, which was fun to read and a little outside my typical genre. I read this for the final book on my alpha challenge (the letter Z), and overall I'd say: "Four Stars, Would Most Def Recommend"!

