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vikingwolf's review
2.0
The story is quite a typical prepper plot-prepper becomes aware of a threat to his family from a raging pandemic and gets safely to the remote cabin that should keep them safe. It is the type of scenario that I never get tired of reading and will always seek out. In this case Mike is our prepper hero who decides to get his wife safely to the family cabin to ride out the pandemic in what they hope is safety.
The formatting in this book is pretty dreadful-at least my copy was. There are huge gaps between every line and some pages only contain about 10 lines of writing on them. There are bad spelling and grammar issues too. I can ignore this kind of thing if the book has a fantastically written story but not in this case. The story itself is fine if you ignore the abject stupidity of the things that the characters are doing, and the anti-corporate rants but there is nothing really that new to it and it does have the cliche prepper wife who questions everything, doesn't support her husband's prepping and complains a lot. The stupidity includes talking to the rest of the family on the phone as the pandemic starts but not making an agreement to all meet at the cabin, then after the pandemic and loss of contact, leaving the refuge to try and collect those family members. A family member already infected says nothing about it on the phone causing Mike to drive for hours and risk his life, to arrive and be told 'you shouldn't have come'. Mike then decides to report the family member to FEMA and watches him being dragged away before wondering if it would've been better to let him die in his own house in peace. Yeah good one.
It is an ok story but not something I would rush out to buy or continue on with the series.
2.5 stars.
The formatting in this book is pretty dreadful-at least my copy was. There are huge gaps between every line and some pages only contain about 10 lines of writing on them. There are bad spelling and grammar issues too. I can ignore this kind of thing if the book has a fantastically written story but not in this case. The story itself is fine if you ignore the abject stupidity of the things that the characters are doing, and the anti-corporate rants but there is nothing really that new to it and it does have the cliche prepper wife who questions everything, doesn't support her husband's prepping and complains a lot. The stupidity includes talking to the rest of the family on the phone as the pandemic starts but not making an agreement to all meet at the cabin, then after the pandemic and loss of contact, leaving the refuge to try and collect those family members. A family member already infected says nothing about it on the phone causing Mike to drive for hours and risk his life, to arrive and be told 'you shouldn't have come'. Mike then decides to report the family member to FEMA and watches him being dragged away before wondering if it would've been better to let him die in his own house in peace. Yeah good one.
It is an ok story but not something I would rush out to buy or continue on with the series.
2.5 stars.
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