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Date read: July 17, 2025
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Kylie Scott
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
There’s only one person Dean Wallace wants to save from the end of the world: sunshine girl from across the street. She’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 he expected.Thoughts on Wildflowers: It has straight up been A WHILE since I read a post-apocalyptic romance and HOO-BOY this hit the spot. Dean is surly and over-protective and Astrid is sunshine in a bottle and BOY DID THEY WORK.
Astrid Hardy doesn’t know what to think when she wakes up in her hot neighbor’s basement. He says he wants to protect her from the deadly virus threatening to collapse society. But that sounds like paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense, and losing her sh*t seems like the correct response.
As they watch the downfall of the world play out online, hear approaching gunshots, and smell smoke from nearby burning buildings, it all starts to seem horribly realistic. With almost everyone they know dead, and law and order gone…how will they navigate this new world together?
Admittedly, the fact Dean abducted Astrid and kept her in his basement sounds bad. And if the world wasn't ending between the pages, it absolutely would have been bad. But Dean had a plan and enough time to gather supplies and fortify his home and if Astrid would have gone out on her grocery run, she might very well have ended up like everyone else. Which is to say she might not have survived. So really, Dean's abduction benefitted Astrid greatly. You know, if you look at it from a post-apocalyptic point of a view.
On the other side of the situation, we have Astrid. She had no advance warning of what was brewing, unlike Dean. She didn't even realize there was more going on than a nasty strain of the flu hitting the population until Dean grabbed her and made her face it. While she was admittedly put out by the whole abduction thing at first, she's realistic enough to understand that he really did save her in the early days and without him she wouldn't have lasted long enough to build a community after.
I don't know what to say except everything about this worked for me. Dean was a snarly grump with everyone but Astrid. And when Sophie crashed into them (kind of literally), his protective umbrella extended to her. He wasn't thrilled about surrounding them with others, but he knew his girls would be safest if they had a solid group at their back. So they did what they had to do to find good people to build a community with.
A little danger, a nasty virus, some thrilling heroics, people who became friends and neighbors by circumstance, a sweet little girl, a man who will burn down the world to keep his people safe, and a lady who has to work her head around how much she adores the big grump working to keep them safe. *thumbs up*
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