I do love a good book by Kate Hewitt and this one is a lovely story of family, of things lost and things found. This is a very compassionate and heart-warming story that will get to the core and keep you reading.

I love the setting of Lost Lake and the memories of the past as well as the fact that the move they made was the best move possibly for the events to come. Great characters, great story and I really enjoyed this book from start to finish.

Thank you NetGalley and Storm Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

This was a very different book than I was expecting, but I very much enjoyed it. It's not a genre I usually read but I found it hooked me in when I wasn't expecting it! The characters are well written and the pace of the book is good. I‘d recommend it! Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for my copy of this book.

I'm not a big fan of end of the world books but this one is well written and full of hope and family love. When Danial has to move their family to Lost Lake, 20 miles from the nearest small town, they had no idea what would happen. When nuclear holocaust happens, he leaves his wife and daughter to find their son who is in college in upstate New York. As both parents struggle to survive, the world around them is crashing. Well written and full of love and forgiveness.

this book has great characters and Kate Hewitt has written this book with an excellent storyline.
I was completely absorbed and I would recommend this to others to buy and read it.

This book was absolutely amazing and I can’t write a review that will do it justice. The storyline is wonderfully unique (and is it really that far from reality?), but the characters themselves, and the emotions I felt because I was so drawn to them, made it even better somehow. I am a huge fan of Kate Hewitt and will choose her books without even reading the summary because I know that I will love it hands down. She has an immense talent for drawing out such strong emotions and connections to her characters, and her writing style is so comfortable and easy. I put myself in Alex’ and Daniel’s shoes many times and my heart ached right along with theirs. Though I did not agree with some choices that both of them made, overall I think that all parents would feel emotional when reading this one. Several times throughout the book I wondered what I would do and it made me really take a step back and ponder my own life and family and future. Gripping, emotional, life-changing.

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I really enjoyed reading this book. I thought that the writing was exceptional, I felt engaged with the characters immediately, and it was easy to follow the story. Highly recommend!

A brilliant read, great characters brilliant storyline. A book I really enjoyed it gripped me from the very start and I found it hard to put down once I had started.

The blurb for this book is quite vague and I was really surprised when I realised what the plot was going to be. If I am honest, had I have had more information, I would probably not have read this, hence my negative thoughts. Really, this was a 2 star review for me but the exciting, albeit unbelievable, ending made this a 3 star read.
I did like the characters and I read this quickly as I wanted to find out what happened to them. The plot is fast paced too and I was never bored. As I have mentioned, I did find some of the events a bit ridiculous and made the book far fetched.
This was an okay read and one that is definitely not what I am used to.
Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for an advance copy.

The Last Stars in the Sky by Kate Hewitt is a book of resilience, perseverance and motherly love. Told mostly from Alex's perspective, she's mum to three and wife to Daniel, who's let her down badly and now they need to escape to her family's house in Canada. Little do they know that this isolated house with its own water supply and generator is the only thing that will save them from what is to come. I couldn't put this book down, but equally didn't want to keep reading it! What a story! Heartbreakingly sad, inconceivably conceivable yet always hopeful. Can't wait for the next instalment.
With thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Kate Hewitt is great with character development. As the story progressed Kate progressed with it! This story was a little slow to start but then turned into a page turner! My only complaint is there were some unanswered questions in the end but I can’t wait to read the next book!

This story was very hard for me to get into. I decided not to finish it. It was very slow moving. I just could not get attached to any of the characters enough to want to see where they might end. Post apocalyptic stories are not a genre I enjoy. I don't think I read the synopsis close enough because I am such a Kate Hewitt fan.

A well written book
Quite thought provoking
It will have you hooked from the first to the last page
Thanks NetGalley

I really enjoyed this book but at times I thought it was a bit too unrealistic. The ending left me hanging. What I loved the most was the characters.

You thought yesterday was bad?

What do you do when your husband loses his job and doesn't tell you? And he doesn't make the mortgage payments and he loses the house?

Well, you end up as a family leaving Connecticut and all you've known as a family and head to a disused family cabin in rural Canada to catch your breath and hunker down and figure out next steps.

The only problem is that the next day the world as you know really goes to hell. And your family problems are looking miniscule in comparison. And your college age son is still in the United States and you need to get him to Canada, too.

Excellent post-apocalyptic story told from the viewpoint of one family. I highly recommend.

I received this Digital Review Copy from Storm Publishing through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review. This is that review.

Wow. When everything you depend on, everything familiar, is lost...where do you turn? This novel was unique, and will stick with me for awhile. Without giving away spoilers too much, I will say that it made me think about a lot of what if scenarios. Survival becomes everything in this book, and while some of the characters frustrated me, it was overall an excellent story.

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I thought this would be a gentle read, how wrong was I! The story of a families survival during a nuclear war.

Really sad in places and the writing was gripping throughout.

Hoping there will be a sequel!

This was a tear jerker that had me all in my feelings. Beautiful book about finding the silver linings in life. Honest and thoughtful. I would recommend this book and author.

Thank you to Netgalley for the copy in exchange for my review.

I cried a lot at the end of this brilliant emotionally charged plot. It's so emotionally layered which makes it hard to stop reading and thinking about.

This story was about the evolution of a family that had it all until they didn’t. Alex and Daniel’s marriage is falling apart, they lose their house, Daniel loses his job and they decide to go to Canada to live in Alex’s parents abandoned house. Suddenly a nuclear attack happens in America and they are stuck, in what seemed like, the best place they could be. Now they just have to survive as a family, but how long for?

Wow this is not what I expected at all. After a slow start I was unsure where the story was going but I am so impressed with the slow burn of the drama that it kept me hooked! There was such a complexity of characters who we saw really grew in the book. I really enjoyed the different perspectives of Alex and Daniel’s journeys together and separately. The book was entertaining but frightening in parts and kinda scary that this sort of thing could really happen to the world. Loved Kate’s writing style and I definitely want to read more from her!

Wow, this was quite the thinker of a book!

Daniel and Alex and their two daughters are staying at Alex's parents cabin in Canada, a beautiful but isolated spot. Next thing they know, the world as they know it, has changed. Forever.

I have read books by this author before and loved them. This is quite different, being dystopian fiction, but I really enjoyed it too.

I have to admit that my tummy was in knots many times whilst reading of this novel, as the scenarios as described therein could happen quite easily, I feel. What the heck would I do if my world was turned upside down in this way? I really don't know.

Thoroughly enjoyed the read.

4.5 stars from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing.