Bought as a gift, I had no expectations beyond the blurb.

Al Hess provides an insider view to being an autistic queer during an apocolypse. That's about as close to an accurate description as I think I can manage. From sensory issues, to relationships, to food, to other queer people in a small town, to things going ... sideways on all fronts, Al Hess has managed to pull a novel together that's pretty amazing.

Each character is very fully developed, no one is a trope, although tropes are exploited. The main story twists well, as Denver is not just working through a world ending scenario, but their relationships with the people and town around them.

Despite being my last book of the year, one of my favourites.