Upheaval by Suzanne Perazzini

Well, the author edited her own book. Bad idea. Really bad. I found many, many errors, which distracted from the story. The story has an interesting concept - Nyeta is a student at an "outdoor pursuits" school and is kayaking with other students when a huge earthquake sets off a couple of volcanoes and triggers the end of the world as they knew it. Nyeta survives and together with several other surviving students they make their way through the dangerous wilderness trying to get to "the city" where their families live. "The city" is never named and the setting is never really identified, which is a bit annoying. They see lots of dead people, get guns to defend themselves, and Nyeta's first aide skills that she knows because her father is a doctor makes her the nurse/doctor whenever anyone is injured. It is a rather typical YA dystopian novel with a little romance and lots of death defying action, but the large amount of editing errors and lack of description of the setting detracts from the story. I hope that the author hires an actual editor for future books because that is really necessary. I received this book free to review from Netgalley.