Review: A good read, but some glaring errors
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2012
Once again, like many of my reviews, I got this ebook as a free download.This is a very enjoyable post apocalyptic book set after an unprecedented disaster that wipes out everyone on Earth apart from those underground. It is an enjoyable and easy read. I quite liked it, apart from some pretty glaring inconsistencies, several spelling mistakes and inaccurate information. In one part of the book there is mention of capital punishment which is twice referred to as corporal punishment rules but otherwise referred as capital punishment rules. There is reference to DC3s, and then DC-47s. I assume this is a mix up between DC3s, C-47s which are the military version of the DC3, and DC4s which were larger planes, the 4 engine development of the DC3. The book even calls a plane a C-47 and then a DC-47. Also, it regularly states DC-3s can only carry 20 passengers, when in reality they usually sit 32 or 36.However, if you ignore those errors and the occasional spelling or grammatical error, the book is an excellent read. You get to know characters, feel for them as they struggle to build a new world after the disaster. It is light reading, nothing too in depth, with a few moral dilemmas thrown in. I particularly liked the way the people go about forming a new society, and the role of the military. Very egalitarian instead of overburdening power.If you liked post apocalypse novels like The Road, The Day of the Triffids and Jason Halstead's Wanted, then you should like this book.I probably would have given this one a 4 star if the errors were cleaned up.