Review: Starts interestingly, rapidly degenerates
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
This book starts well, with an interesting premise - a group of scientists stranded in the Arctic by a global EMP event.  Unfortunately the plot rapidly turns to crap.  The characters get more unbelievable as the book goes on and the coincidences used to move the plot forward keep getting more ridiculous.  A ship shows up at just the right moment, then a character who took off overland happens to intercept the ship many days later, then two characters find their abondoned family members in cages next to them in Boston, then a bad guy happens to find a scrap of newspaper with a damning article about the lead, and so on and so on . . .  I almost quit about 2/3rds of the way through, but I kept on, thinking there had to be a pony somewhere in the whole mess.  Trust me, there isn't.