Book description
The Old World is dead. Alone and starving, her only salvation is him.
Born in a secure compound amidst the ashes of a world long dead, Claire Ainsley knows her place in the world: work her assigned job, live with her assigned husband, and keep her head down and her…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Wastelander as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In this dystopian romance, I love how the society Claire lives in is not ours, but a futuristic, prescribed society where she does her best to fit in, but she never feels comfortable.
Sometimes I’ve felt that way about my life, too. Outside the walls, where the Wastelanders live, is violent and unknown, with a reputation like the badlands in a Mad Max movie. When a rebellion happens, and Claire is exiled, she’s immediately on her own.
I like that the people who rescue her are not what she expected and that living with them forces her to examine her…
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