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The Jakarta Pandemic
by Steven Konkoly
3.5 Stars
Not a high octane page turner, with 98% of the book takes place on one 30 home street; but still an interesting read on the dangers of global pandemic flu wrought on a local scale.
We follow one family with a disaster preparedness plan as everything falls apart as a novel strain of the flu spreads the globe. Quarantining themselves in their home as the local community, a few prepared and most not; come to terms with the developing crisis. Early attempts to create community resources splits residents and creates tension, worsening as refugees from the devolving cities trawl for a place to shelter out the storm. One group of these refugees will stop at nothing to find food.
Coming to this book straight after something fairly similar; a small town in the mountains of the Carolinas; here the impact is seen on an even smaller scale. The problems faced are the same though, residents fighting to find a balance between keeping everything they have for themselves versus giving it all to those less prepared and leaving yourself stranded, making alliances and working on schemes to help without putting your own family at risk. There are some more specific risks here, where in the last book it made good sense to gather together, in this book some of the suggestions regards disease vectors (AKA children) are just asking for trouble and our family is seen as not team players when they don't want others around their children.
As I said, not high octane but I didn't put in down from 10% to finish. Will continue the series.
Not a high octane page turner, with 98% of the book takes place on one 30 home street; but still an interesting read on the dangers of global pandemic flu wrought on a local scale.
We follow one family with a disaster preparedness plan as everything falls apart as a novel strain of the flu spreads the globe. Quarantining themselves in their home as the local community, a few prepared and most not; come to terms with the developing crisis. Early attempts to create community resources splits residents and creates tension, worsening as refugees from the devolving cities trawl for a place to shelter out the storm. One group of these refugees will stop at nothing to find food.
Coming to this book straight after something fairly similar; a small town in the mountains of the Carolinas; here the impact is seen on an even smaller scale. The problems faced are the same though, residents fighting to find a balance between keeping everything they have for themselves versus giving it all to those less prepared and leaving yourself stranded, making alliances and working on schemes to help without putting your own family at risk. There are some more specific risks here, where in the last book it made good sense to gather together, in this book some of the suggestions regards disease vectors (AKA children) are just asking for trouble and our family is seen as not team players when they don't want others around their children.
As I said, not high octane but I didn't put in down from 10% to finish. Will continue the series.