Review: IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY by Eric Shapiro

If you knew in a few short hours earth would be destroyed how would you spend your precious time? With family? Friends? Doing all those horrible things you’ve always really wanted to do? If you’re Sean--a recent somewhat aimless college graduate—you take to the road to find the one girl you ever really loved (and lost).

Eric Shapiro has done a dangerous thing in “It’s Only Temporary”: he’s written an apocalyptic love story. Wait, don’t stop reading because of the “love story” part! This book is so well written, so stylish, so intense that, when you finish, you won’t feel like you’ve read a love story. You’ll feel like you’ve just been on a trip through a hellish apocalyptic world that’s pulling apart at the seams with REAL people. There’s the key: Shapiro’s characters feel like living, breathing people with real problems, real worries, and real desires trying to deal with an insane situation.

Imagine Chuck Palahniuk rewriting “Love Story” and “The Stand” as a single tale then going back and trimming it to the absolute bone and you’ve got something in the ball park of “It’s Only Temporary”. If you’re a fan of reading at all do yourself a favor and read this book!

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