Review: Very inferior to the first "Desperate Times" novel
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2012
It is not too much to say that "Desperate Times 2" goes all the way off the rails.  The wheels come off the cart.  Desperate Times 1 had some good characterizations and a reasonable storyline.  This one is just plain dysfunctional.  The people do not behave realistically, the whole "hippie commune" thing is implausible, I just don't know what the author was thinking.  In particular, the sub-plot between Jimmie and Julie is plain idiotic.  She gets tired of some of the people in the group, so she just ditches Jimmie and drives into the chaos?  Get real.  Again, what was the author thinking?  RJB.