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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
tense
fast-paced
I was going to read the complete collection of this series, but was glad to stop at the first one. The story and characters didn't grab me. It was more like a "to do" list of how to survive the apocalypse.
Pros:
Imagery
Keeps the reader guessing at what happened
Cons:
Couldn't connect with female protagonist
Needs stronger connection between characters or more struggles within themselves
Inconsistencies ie: asking about the cars
"Reconnoitering" used too much
Fav Quote:
"The good news is, everyone is doing the best he can...The bad news is, everyone is doing the best he can."
Pros:
Imagery
Keeps the reader guessing at what happened
Cons:
Couldn't connect with female protagonist
Needs stronger connection between characters or more struggles within themselves
Inconsistencies ie: asking about the cars
"Reconnoitering" used too much
Fav Quote:
"The good news is, everyone is doing the best he can...The bad news is, everyone is doing the best he can."
I wanted to read this because it’s one of the rare books of this genre that had a female lead but - Holy hell!!! This guy writes every single excruciating detail down to the micro-action. Which also means it’s not surprising that he uses the same words in extreme repetition - sometimes even three or more times in a single sentence! First - this needs to be seriously edited down and actually made readable, but beyond that… BUY A THESAURUS!!!
This book also falls into the weird trend of self publishing “writers” that feel if they write enough drivel to just stuff pages to make it a “book” they can end it right in the middle of the story and make it a multi-part series. If they actually wrote well and concise this could be a nice, tight SINGLE story. Quantity does NOT equal quality and this is a perfect example.
Beyond that - the author is a raging sexist or just one more ignorant male trying to write a female character. Much less a extra level of ballsy trying to write her as a main character. Are cis, white males truly this oblivious??!?!? I mean, if you’re a writer you’re SUPPOSED to be able to have some basic observational skills but at a minimum maybe have a real conversation with a woman at some point?!?!
She’s a med student and the writer has a weird obsession with over the top details so of course we are treated to almost a full dissertation about a random femur she finds but by all means she’s incapable of figuring out on her own that has a concussion despite displaying major symptoms. Silly woman, she needed GUY to tell her she had a concussion, of course!!!
A great example of this insane minute detail - what kind of person had to be told “aspirin in my backpack” okay, where in backpack, okay in main compartment in a first aid kit. Where in the first aid kit? It’s not that big of a kit or bag for crying out loud just open the little kit and find the pill bottle!!!! Did we need this all laid out instead of just saying, “she told him where the aspirin was in her backpack and was thankful to swallow the pills.”
The dude said “shot a couple weeks back” (regarding the venison) and she asks “there’s stuff out there?” The timeline of events, though, was only a week, at best. Now we are at 10 days according to the dude. But that’s still not “a couple weeks back.” Yet another common issue where the writers forget how to keep track of time.
As a med student (or anyone with basic common sense) she can’t understand why some people don’t take drugs for pain???? Not even a the smallest flicker of an idea that maybe the person is a recovering addict or comes from a family/relationship with an addict? Seriously!?!?!?
Why is it such a big deal for her to tell him what happened at mill creak? Why is the author making it such a massive thing other than to make utterly contrived drivel as a way to cause some tension between the two that doesn’t need to be there as yet another example of stuffing pages to pretend like they wrote a book. A woman being attacked on the road after a global disaster isn’t a weird thing.
Wait so this guy is all “people can be evil” and yet drills her and immediately assumes she’s evil because she was a female attacked on the road? Then had the audacity to profess he’s a good guy???? Is the author so terrible at writing that he has to make up this level of ridiculousness and actually thinks it’s worth putting on paper?????
A med student (or, again, anyone with two brain cells) uses “all molesters are that way because they were molested?” What lunacy is that!?!?!
Again the author seems to be having trouble with telling time saying she’s been sleeping in the bed for weeks. For a guy who writes in excruciating and utterly unnecessary detail in areas that do nothing to propel the story he randomly jumps all over time with absolutely no sense of time passing other than a couple of days from the start of the story to all of a sudden many weeks suddenly going by but he doesn’t tell the readers there’s been any passage of time. He needs to get rid of 80% of the bulk details of minute movements and inner dialogue (and a poorly disguised how-to survival preaching guide) and actually learn how to transition or illustrate time.
The dude wasn’t saying she did anything wrong??? He outright accused her of attacking a partner or stealing from someone and never once even considered a woman alone could just simply be attacked.
What the hell is with this guy never hearing about people (yes, including women) not wanting kids and then blowing her off telling her she’s wrong and that she’d want kids really if she wasn’t focused on school and such. There is soooooooo much wrong with this whole thing that I’d be here all day breaking down all the issues with just this specific part.
Ahhh yes, the little female is the one good at sewing and what a good little lady knitting some mittens. Again, the raging sexism of this writer shines through.
Yep, good thing there’s a male around to tell the med student about medical stuff like how her fatigue and fading is from the lack of food. Again, so wonderful manly-man is there to explain to the silly female who thought she could go to college for medicine what symptoms of radiation poison from a nuke would look like. Whew! Thank god this man was around!
First, anyone knows Walmart has a pharmacy. Second a med student would definitely know this. Third, not just old people take medicine, come on man!!!!
Ummmm no, sugary soda is NOT “as good as water”for hydration. It’s actually the opposite to hydrating. Under such extreme circumstances it’s at least something but in NO WAY is it as good as water.
What is up with the weirdness of calling comrades, cohorts, friends, followers, underlings, thugs, etc (see - When you actually know words you’ll find there’s a variety to use) “confederates.” It’s bad enough that people don’t speak in any different tonality regardless of character but no one in the real world uses the word “confederate” nor is it even accurate.
“This is mans business” again - who speaks like this? Maybe the Amish but the average person? Lol no. Not to mention more sexism.
Hahaha what!!!!!! Did the author just compare two random piles outside of a Walmart to women’s breasts?!?!?!
Could you be any more demeaning since you constantly have manly-man there telling the med student about medical stuff - oh wait, you can!!! By calling her a nurse. Not that there’s anything wrong with nurses - they’re often better than doctors, to be honest. But it’s just one more example of raging sexism. Then have her go right to asking him what she should do. The dude is a groundskeeper!!!!
I felt like I was going through apocalyptic torture just making it through this utter gutter trash. It felt like the writing was about the same 4th/5th grade school boy wrote in both contrived situations, lack of voice, lack of action, and lack of any kind of common sense. He spends an obscene amount of time on nonsensical details while completely glossing over any actual action. I definitely will not be wasting my time on anything else this guy “writes” and you shouldn’t either.
This book also falls into the weird trend of self publishing “writers” that feel if they write enough drivel to just stuff pages to make it a “book” they can end it right in the middle of the story and make it a multi-part series. If they actually wrote well and concise this could be a nice, tight SINGLE story. Quantity does NOT equal quality and this is a perfect example.
Beyond that - the author is a raging sexist or just one more ignorant male trying to write a female character. Much less a extra level of ballsy trying to write her as a main character. Are cis, white males truly this oblivious??!?!? I mean, if you’re a writer you’re SUPPOSED to be able to have some basic observational skills but at a minimum maybe have a real conversation with a woman at some point?!?!
She’s a med student and the writer has a weird obsession with over the top details so of course we are treated to almost a full dissertation about a random femur she finds but by all means she’s incapable of figuring out on her own that has a concussion despite displaying major symptoms. Silly woman, she needed GUY to tell her she had a concussion, of course!!!
A great example of this insane minute detail - what kind of person had to be told “aspirin in my backpack” okay, where in backpack, okay in main compartment in a first aid kit. Where in the first aid kit? It’s not that big of a kit or bag for crying out loud just open the little kit and find the pill bottle!!!! Did we need this all laid out instead of just saying, “she told him where the aspirin was in her backpack and was thankful to swallow the pills.”
The dude said “shot a couple weeks back” (regarding the venison) and she asks “there’s stuff out there?” The timeline of events, though, was only a week, at best. Now we are at 10 days according to the dude. But that’s still not “a couple weeks back.” Yet another common issue where the writers forget how to keep track of time.
As a med student (or anyone with basic common sense) she can’t understand why some people don’t take drugs for pain???? Not even a the smallest flicker of an idea that maybe the person is a recovering addict or comes from a family/relationship with an addict? Seriously!?!?!?
Why is it such a big deal for her to tell him what happened at mill creak? Why is the author making it such a massive thing other than to make utterly contrived drivel as a way to cause some tension between the two that doesn’t need to be there as yet another example of stuffing pages to pretend like they wrote a book. A woman being attacked on the road after a global disaster isn’t a weird thing.
Wait so this guy is all “people can be evil” and yet drills her and immediately assumes she’s evil because she was a female attacked on the road? Then had the audacity to profess he’s a good guy???? Is the author so terrible at writing that he has to make up this level of ridiculousness and actually thinks it’s worth putting on paper?????
A med student (or, again, anyone with two brain cells) uses “all molesters are that way because they were molested?” What lunacy is that!?!?!
Again the author seems to be having trouble with telling time saying she’s been sleeping in the bed for weeks. For a guy who writes in excruciating and utterly unnecessary detail in areas that do nothing to propel the story he randomly jumps all over time with absolutely no sense of time passing other than a couple of days from the start of the story to all of a sudden many weeks suddenly going by but he doesn’t tell the readers there’s been any passage of time. He needs to get rid of 80% of the bulk details of minute movements and inner dialogue (and a poorly disguised how-to survival preaching guide) and actually learn how to transition or illustrate time.
The dude wasn’t saying she did anything wrong??? He outright accused her of attacking a partner or stealing from someone and never once even considered a woman alone could just simply be attacked.
What the hell is with this guy never hearing about people (yes, including women) not wanting kids and then blowing her off telling her she’s wrong and that she’d want kids really if she wasn’t focused on school and such. There is soooooooo much wrong with this whole thing that I’d be here all day breaking down all the issues with just this specific part.
Ahhh yes, the little female is the one good at sewing and what a good little lady knitting some mittens. Again, the raging sexism of this writer shines through.
Yep, good thing there’s a male around to tell the med student about medical stuff like how her fatigue and fading is from the lack of food. Again, so wonderful manly-man is there to explain to the silly female who thought she could go to college for medicine what symptoms of radiation poison from a nuke would look like. Whew! Thank god this man was around!
First, anyone knows Walmart has a pharmacy. Second a med student would definitely know this. Third, not just old people take medicine, come on man!!!!
Ummmm no, sugary soda is NOT “as good as water”for hydration. It’s actually the opposite to hydrating. Under such extreme circumstances it’s at least something but in NO WAY is it as good as water.
What is up with the weirdness of calling comrades, cohorts, friends, followers, underlings, thugs, etc (see - When you actually know words you’ll find there’s a variety to use) “confederates.” It’s bad enough that people don’t speak in any different tonality regardless of character but no one in the real world uses the word “confederate” nor is it even accurate.
“This is mans business” again - who speaks like this? Maybe the Amish but the average person? Lol no. Not to mention more sexism.
Hahaha what!!!!!! Did the author just compare two random piles outside of a Walmart to women’s breasts?!?!?!
Could you be any more demeaning since you constantly have manly-man there telling the med student about medical stuff - oh wait, you can!!! By calling her a nurse. Not that there’s anything wrong with nurses - they’re often better than doctors, to be honest. But it’s just one more example of raging sexism. Then have her go right to asking him what she should do. The dude is a groundskeeper!!!!
I felt like I was going through apocalyptic torture just making it through this utter gutter trash. It felt like the writing was about the same 4th/5th grade school boy wrote in both contrived situations, lack of voice, lack of action, and lack of any kind of common sense. He spends an obscene amount of time on nonsensical details while completely glossing over any actual action. I definitely will not be wasting my time on anything else this guy “writes” and you shouldn’t either.
I enjoyed it. I really wanted to love it but I found some things to jarring. You don't know what disaster has happened. Ok the way it is presented is believable. Some of the other points just made me leave the story and question if this was how a person would react to the situation. I still plan to read the other books and see what I think.
I got to listen to the audiobook and I did like the story (keep in mind that what happened to the world is a mystery) so if you like to know what happened and how this may not be the book for you, but I did enjoy even thou almost all people that cross way with out main character are psicos... But I could relate with our main character and I recommend this book
I’m in a lil apocalypse mood lately. This concept is a different vibe than most apocalyptic novels. It’s like you’re out of the loop about what’s happening bc the characters knowledge is limited. Not my fav writing but really interesting. Needs to be a clean reading month for me bc ✨ Ramadan ✨ so I’m glad I found this series (basically just pure survival vibes). Anyways 4 stars.
The biggest mystery in this story is what exactly caused the Gray. I suspected that it was the Yellowstone Caldera eruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iRJb15W-14
Although the characters feel it might have been an asteroid, I'm still leaning towards supervolcano.
The characters in this book are engaging and I plan to read the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iRJb15W-14
Although the characters feel it might have been an asteroid, I'm still leaning towards supervolcano.
The characters in this book are engaging and I plan to read the series.
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
What a great story! Yes some editorial errors in the text, but I could ignore them because the story was just that good. Off to part two!
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes