Wildflowers

Wildflowers
by Kylie Scott
 
Book: Stand Alone
Publisher: Author
Pub Date: July 8, 2025
Genre: Apocalyptic, Romance 
Format: ARC
Source: Author
Book Links: Goodreads  Amazon  
 
There’s only one person Dean Wallace wants to save from the end of the world. Sunshine girl from across the road. His neighbor who’s always smiling. Who knows, maybe she can teach him a thing or two about how to live. But saving her against her will is harder than it looks.

Astrid Hardy doesn’t know what to think when she wakes up in her hot neighbor’s basement. He says it’s to protect her from the collapse of society due to a virus. Which sounds like some paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense. Losing her shit seems the correct response.

As they watch the downfall of modern life on the flatscreen, however, and hear the gunshots from up on the street and smell the smoke from nearby burning buildings, it all starts to seem horribly realistic. The real question is…with almost everyone dead and law and order gone…how will they navigate this new world together?
 
 
My Review: Sooo.... Apocalyptic, End of the World, Deadly Virus, etc. All of these are things that I actually hate and wouldn't go out of my way to read. HOWEVER, if its got Kylie's name on it, then you know I'm going to read it.  

And you know what, there isn't a damn thing that Kylie can't write. She can take her romance style and smash it together with any other genre and somehow create a masterpiece every single time.  

Astrid and Dean are neighbors who have never talked until now, when Astrid takes the risk going outside for groceries. What she didn’t expect was their first ever interaction to turn into a kidnapping situation.  

Astrid wakes in Deans basement. She surprisingly takes it all in pretty well. Sure, she screamed every word she could think to throw at him. But after that? Astrid could come off as going with the flow, even though she really should be more concerned. Though the world ending vs being in the basement of your hunky neighbor probably seems lesser of the two.  

The book keeps up with a decent pace and soon it becomes Astrid and Dean on the run to another town to escape the virus. Along the way they sort of get along that it almost comes off as if she forgives him for kidnapping her. While on the move they become kind of a family when they find a little girl. Then a town that looks safe, takes over a home in the town and kind of just restart life. 

Overall, I like the book. It wasn’t the typical romance from Kylie and was way more on the lighter side while the story focused way more on the apocalyptic aspect.  There were moments when I struggled with the book but frankly it was probably just the fact that I’m not the biggest fan of apocalyptic reads. Though, it was written in a way that I could still keep reading the book and ended up enjoying it in the end. 

 

My Rating:

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