When It Ends by Penelope Black-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 1, 2022.

They stole my heart at fourteen and broke it before we even graduated from high school. It’s been five years since I’ve seen them, and only a twist of fate reunites us when the mountain falls. It’s the first disaster in a predicted apocalypse—a string of natural disasters that could be catastrophic.

It’s the beginning of the end of everything.
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Old feelings reignite and new feelings blossom as the four of us form an unbreakable bond. As the world starts to fall and society fractures, it’s a race against time for survival.

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REVIEW:WHEN IT ENDS by Penelope Black is a contemporary, adult, apocalyptic, reverse harem, romance story line focusing on Amelia, Cole, West and Gray.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from four first person perspectives (Amelia, Cole, West and Gray) WHEN IT ENDS follows twenty-two year old Amelia Christensen in the days prior to the literal end of the world. A one-night stand in Vegas with a man she knows only as Sonny, Amelia returns to her grandmothers home, where she will embark on a journey with her past. Enter Cole Armstrong and West Campbell the two boys Amelia had fallen in love with years before, two boys lost in the foster care system, never to be heard from again but an environmental disaster is about to ravage the world, and along with another foster brother Gray aka Sonny, our foursome head for places unknown in the wake of an apocalyptic meltdown. Amelia’s father works for the government, and has offered a place of sanctuary but our heroine refuses to leave behind the men with whom she is falling in love. What ensues is the quick rebuilding relationship between Amelia and Cole, West and Gray, and the potential fall-out as the end of the world beckons.

The relationship between Amelia and Cole, West and Gray is a reverse harem relationship. Amelia spent one night with Gray aka Sonny, never thinking she would see him again, but our heroine had fallen in love with Cole and West close to ten years earlier.Jealousy blinded the foster brothers when it came to our heroine’s affections but Amelia was willing to share her ‘love’ with the men that had stolen her heart. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

WHEN IT ENDS follows the foursome as they must over come the ensuing chaos and panic of a world about to implode. People are panicking, lives are lost, and only the chosen few will survive. The premise is intriguing and engaging; the romance is erotic and spicy; the characters are energetic and charismatic. The entire story line, excluding the epilogue, covers but a few days in the life, and glosses over the true hardships and fall-out of a world gone mad-as the world begins to devour itself, we are no longer witness to the atrocities but skip ahead several months as the foursome hunker down somewhere safe and sound. This is a RH romance story not a story about survival thusly we are not up close and personal with the true nature of endurance and their journey to persevere. WHEN IT ENDS ends on a happily ever after-for now-there is still more story to tell.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Penelope Black lives in the Midwest with her husband and two tiny humans. When she’s not writing, she enjoys over-the-top action movies, iced chai lattes, and soaking up the sun in her backyard with a good book.

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