Let's Call It a Doomsday

Let's Call It a Doomsday by Katie Henry     416 pages

Ellis Kimball is terrified of the end  of the world, so totally in fact that she is prepared for most any potential apocalyptic collapse and ruin as best as she and many other doomsday preparedness folk are.   Ellis' anxiety nearly causes her a complete collapse when she meet Hannah, one of her therapist's other patients in her therapist's waiting room.     Ellis, being totally paranoid about the end coming is dumbstruck when Hannah tells her she knows when and how the world is going to end.  Hannah from that point on becomes Hannah's obsession and main focus, letting nothing stop them from being together at the end of the world.    In the world of mental health it is not always a smooth path to get to the answers and outcome desired and how can one make the rest of the world understand what they see so clearly but the rest of the world misses all the signs by not paying attention?    Ellis wants to ring all the alarm bells and wake everyone up so they, too, will be ready and prepared but why is Hannah laying back and not want to share her vision with the rest of the world?   Doesn't she want to save the world?   Why is she running from her psychic ability?   Why isn't standing on top of a building shouting to the world to get ready?   She even knows the date it will take place!    Well written, good story, after a while you want to tell Ellis to get somewhere and sit down and chill because she is so manic about the end of all days coming but, if we all believed that we knew the when and how of the end of the world we would want to save as many people as possible.   There is method to her madness, but, she is so hyper sometimes you do want to grab her and say, "Calm Down!"   I would recommend the story to middle schoolers on up but mature ones so they can get the line between reality and when the mania becomes over the moon.