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The Beauty of the End

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The Beauty of the End

By: Lauren Stienstra
Narrated by: Erika LeonGuerrero
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In this provocative work of speculative fiction, two sisters navigate the complex moral terrain of reproductive ethics, individual freedoms, and society’s duty to a future facing imminent extinction.

Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just eight years old when an unfortunate scientific discovery upends their world—and the world order. The revelation? Extinction, encoded in every creature’s DNA. The expiration date for humans? Only four generations away.

A decade later, unsure of what tomorrow holds, Charlie and Maggie enroll as counselors in a government-run human-husbandry program. By offering cash rewards for reproduction, they hope to forestall humanity’s decline and discover a genetic mutation that might defeat it. While Charlie struggles with the ethical implications of the work, Maggie makes unspeakable sacrifices to improve her odds of success—but such unchecked ambition could come at a greater cost than even she realizes.

Torn between her own morality, her love for her sister, and the pressures of a vanishing civilization, Charlie must search deep within to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice—for herself, for Maggie, and for society—to salvage hope for the whole of humankind.

©2025 by Lauren Stienstra. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Dystopian Family Life Genre Fiction Science Fiction
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The Beauty of the End by novelist Lauren Stienstra will hold a special attraction to science fiction fans with an interest in dystopian fiction raised to an epic status of literary excellence. Strongly commended…”—Midwest Book Review

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I LOVED THE BOOK completely disagree with the review left below me

I loved it the story was good the characters were good I couldn't wait to see how it turned out this wasn't awesome book especially because it's this author's very first totally worth the buy or the credit it's great definitely get the book yes it is a little white but it is fantastic nonetheless 😃

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2 teenaged twins--1 obnoxious, 1 pathetic

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Halfway through the book, the twins are only...about 20 years old so this book feels totally YA, (complete with a very boring love triangle) for half the book. Charlie (the narrator) is sniveling, pathetic, weak, etc. Her brilliant sister is completely obnoxious (made more so by the audio narrator). It gets interesting (briefly) about 55% in and then gets boring again. Both sisters get progressively more awful as the book goes on.


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