This is not an action packed book. This was a beautifully written book about how people behave at the end. How one copes with regret and all the decisions made in their life when they think they are at the end of their lives. The downfall for me was that the rumor war was not confirmed. We don't know what exactly happened for the earth to go silent. This has become a Netflix movie w/Clooney and I heard it was terrible. The book was great though