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A review by skippen
Strands of Sorrow, Volume 4 by John Ringo
3.0
This is statement about the entire series.
This is an odd series for me. I can't recommend it, but at the same time, I read/listened to 4 books in this series. It is frustratingly sexist, and at times, feminist. Every woman who is capable is smoking hot, DD. Men, are men. They cannot be expected to control their sexual desires while trapped. The women either need to "submit" or the men with rape them. Really, John? Really. Civilians are close to incapable at time, and most military are flawless. The writing is serviceable, and it is certainly gun/military porn for that target audience. In each of the books, there are sections of text (often entire pages) of sequences that serve no point to the entire story. In this last case, a entire section on how zombie blood/fluids can effectively "grease" an Abrams. In the previous book, an entire passage about how a woman/teenager can get pregnant in a rubber raft with water but never have sex (and the characters/baby never appearing ever in the novel). Both sections are just a waste of text. And lastly, the characters. Entire characters are introduced and dropped (Stacy, Nightwalker -- though he appears a bit after being dropped), and then their is the absurdity of our main characters Sophie and Faith (13 and 15), but fully capable adults at all times. I have no issue with them being kids, but 13 is just too young for what he does with them. Add a couple years to them, and it wouldn't have been an issue.
However, I read all 4 of these things. Ringo is not a good writer for me. I am not a gun nut, into military procedure and training, but every book, despite being really not that good, at the end made me want to find out what happens in the next one and with the entire story. Each book at the end, was ramped up enough for me to want to read/listen more. If I were actually reading these, I don't know if I would have finished, but trapped in the car, I pushed through.
In the end, it was a enjoyable excursion in a zombie apocalypse with a frustratingly sexist borderline misogynist writer. If you like zombies with long descriptions of guns going off, military procedure, long fight sequences, the word oorah, the marines, disappearing characters, and a total lack of logical plot sequences, this series is for you.
This is an odd series for me. I can't recommend it, but at the same time, I read/listened to 4 books in this series. It is frustratingly sexist, and at times, feminist. Every woman who is capable is smoking hot, DD. Men, are men. They cannot be expected to control their sexual desires while trapped. The women either need to "submit" or the men with rape them. Really, John? Really. Civilians are close to incapable at time, and most military are flawless. The writing is serviceable, and it is certainly gun/military porn for that target audience. In each of the books, there are sections of text (often entire pages) of sequences that serve no point to the entire story. In this last case, a entire section on how zombie blood/fluids can effectively "grease" an Abrams. In the previous book, an entire passage about how a woman/teenager can get pregnant in a rubber raft with water but never have sex (and the characters/baby never appearing ever in the novel). Both sections are just a waste of text. And lastly, the characters. Entire characters are introduced and dropped (Stacy, Nightwalker -- though he appears a bit after being dropped), and then their is the absurdity of our main characters Sophie and Faith (13 and 15), but fully capable adults at all times. I have no issue with them being kids, but 13 is just too young for what he does with them. Add a couple years to them, and it wouldn't have been an issue.
However, I read all 4 of these things. Ringo is not a good writer for me. I am not a gun nut, into military procedure and training, but every book, despite being really not that good, at the end made me want to find out what happens in the next one and with the entire story. Each book at the end, was ramped up enough for me to want to read/listen more. If I were actually reading these, I don't know if I would have finished, but trapped in the car, I pushed through.
In the end, it was a enjoyable excursion in a zombie apocalypse with a frustratingly sexist borderline misogynist writer. If you like zombies with long descriptions of guns going off, military procedure, long fight sequences, the word oorah, the marines, disappearing characters, and a total lack of logical plot sequences, this series is for you.