So This Is the End: A Love Story

Written by Alexandra Franzen

Narrated by Eleanor Caudill

How Would You Spend Your Last Few Hours on Earth?
Early readers called So This Is the End "a breath of fresh air,” "moving and beautiful," and something with which you’ll "fall in love the instant you start reading.”

#1 New Release in Science Fiction & Fantasy

In Nora Hamilton’s world, doctors have found a cure for death, with just one caveat—it only lasts for 24 hours. This beautifully-written novel poses a thoughtful question: how would you spend your last 24 hours before death?

One more day. One more chance to tell family you love them, feel the grass beneath your feet, or finally speak your mind. So This Is The End follows Nora Hamilton as she navigates her last 24 hours before death, and she is determined to do something meaningful with her last moments. While looking for unique bucket list ideas, a friend suggests going on one last first date. What happens next is like a love story. Of course Nora would fall in love in her last 24 hours before death.

Enter: Renzo. Ren, for short. Their connection is immediate. Nora wants love, no lies. Should she tell Ren the truth about her condition—that she has less than 24 hours left before her second death? How will he react? Is it unethical to fall in love with someone if you only have one day left on earth? Or is love a gift, even when it's found on the final day a person has left?

Inside So This Is The End, you’ll find:

A love novel about taking chances, making your own rules, and how love does prevail
How to treat all days like your final days—escape mundane living
A moving romantic drama about finding love in your last 24 hours before death
If you liked The Midnight Library, Me Before You, or The Light We Lost, you’ll love So This Is The End.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Jul 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781094455709

Alexandra Franzen

Alexandra Franzen is a "writer's writer" and one of the top creativity and writing teachers in America, teaching 15 courses a year from New York to Hawaii. Franzen's sales track is impressive, selling over a half million books. Alexandra Franzen is the author of the bestselling Q&A a Day, which sold 400,000 copies! Franzen has a popular blog, website and a newsletter that goes to 20k fans. Her writing has been featured on websites like Time, Forbes, Newsweek, HuffPo, and Lifehacker, in song lyrics, and stenciled onto fine art paintings. She’s also one-half of the creative team behind HunnyMilk, a brunch restaurant in Portland. Alexandra Franzen appears on TV, radio, podcasts and in the media regularly. A beloved and nationally known writing teacher, So This Is the End is Franzen's first novel and is a work of visionary fiction.

Reviews for So This Is the End

[PIXIE Beauty Studio Osijek · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed in this short book and narrator was great! This goes on my "listen again" list, when I'm feeling low.

[Yomaira Reyes · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I knew this book would be short and sweet with a typical ending. And yet…it still surprised me while simultaneously warming my heart!

[Jill Ann · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A sweet melancholy love story that helps you ponder “What is most important and beautiful in life?”

[twng · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The admonition to readers at the end of the book.

I chose this thinking it was sci-fi fantasy. I don't like romance books because, to me, they are generally all the same book with names and backdrops altered.

It didn't take long to i realized this was a romance. But i kept listening because it's well written with a great narrator; and it does offer a fresh Sci fi twist.

Suddenly, 2/3 through, it became pure romance that telegraphed its trajectory in neon. I put it away for a while, then returned to get through the final 32 minutes.

Somehow, I found it ok. Yes, this nonromance reader would read again. And the author's final words to the reader are not to be missed. We've all heard them before, but hearing them right after reading the book transformed them into reminders that are immediate and deeply relevant.

If the author's 'assignment' had been to "Write a book that makes the following caution hit home" I'd give this an A+++.

It succeeds that well.

~ Colleen

[Natale Michaud · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

While I pretty much knew how it would basically end, I enjoyed the story. I will however never believe in love at 1st sight.

[Raluca Vomir · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Cute little book for when you want something easy to read.