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"This deliciously moreish YA fantasy rom-com sees a cosy café serve as the unlikely setting for the apocalypse."
Not only has Helen Comerford come up with a fabulously fresh concept with The Cafe at the End of the World, but she’s also delivered a genre-busting YA rom-com that’s jam-packed with hi-stakes hi-jinks (courtesy of an impending apocalypse, no less) and lashings of will-they-won’t-they tension.
“Life is a balancing act when you’re the teenage daughter of Death, retired Rider of the Apocalypse. The smallest thing can tip it from cosy to chaos”. So shares seventeen-year-old Lydie, for whom cosy quickly turns to chaos when Kai, a boy her age with “cool blue eyes”, rocks up at The Snug, her family’s super-cute café.
In addition to bagging himself a job at the café, Kai takes an eyebrow-raising interest in her dad’s horse. In actual fact, this horse is “the steed of Death, who once rode with the other three Riders of the Apocalypse – War, Pandemic and Famine – spreading darkness and devastation across the earth”.
And it was Lydie’s dad, the now-retired Rider of Death, who took all the Riders’ totems to curtail their influence.
While simultaneously finding him incredibly irritating and attractive, Lydie is quick to realise that Kai is an “unknown Natural” on an “unknown mission”, which means she might just have to get over her frustrations and join forces with the conundrum-causing visitor.
Fast-paced, and written in a compellingly breezy style, fans of funny romcoms, quirky characters, and cosy settings alike are advised to snuggle up with a copy of The Cafe at the End of the World in their own version of The Snug. Funny fantasy meets feel-good fiction, this is the perfect book for an afternoon of escapist, read-in-one-sitting bliss.
THE END IS BREWING ...Love, lattes, and world-ending drama - life just got a lot less cosy for Lydie, teenage daughter of Death. The YA romcom/fantasy obsession you didn't know you needed.Come for the cinnamon rolls, stay for the apocalypse.Lydie, the daughter of Death, a retired Rider of the Apocalypse, is obsessed with 'cosy'; cosy books, cosy job in the family café, cosy low-drama life.But then secretive, attractive, and above all annoying, Kai, bursts into the café in a flurry of autumn leaves, with secrets that threaten to change everything.Big, un-cosy things are coming for Lydie whether she likes it or not, and working with Kai might be the only way to protect her town.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Cafe at the End of the World and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
The Cafe at the End of the World features in the following genres: Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, Fantasy / Magical, Funny, Romance / Relationship Stories, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Romance and love stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Dating, relationships, romance and love, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Relationships (non-family / groups)
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The Cafe at the End of the World was written by Helen Comerford and published by Bloomsbury Young Adult an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Cafe at the End of the World has 320 pages
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