narrated by Evan Rachel Wood
Unabridged audio (1:22)
20019 Amazon Original
39 pgs.
Genre/Level
Finished 3/1/2020
Goodreads rating: 3.52 - 6138 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Earth, just before an asteroid destroys it
First line/s: "Samantha's hands were still red from the cold, the skin over her knuckles taut and dry."
My comments: A short story has to follow certain criteria - in a small amount of time and space and words you have to give enough information so that your reader can follow your thinking. I listened to this one twice. In many ways I've got to say that it's a forgettable story. It just needs a little more...or a little less....
Goodreads synopsis: 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 catalog 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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