Review: Hard-boiled and real!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2013
Readers of hard-boiled military strategy and hardware et al will enjoy this. Readers of more emotional works will enjoy this also, although it might take you a bit longer to come to grips with it. This is a book that works on two levels (more, but for purposes of review, two), one being the detail that goes with war and destruction both technological and biological and, two, the intense characterization which evokes an emotional response. This is ultimately a story about survival, about starting over, and to get there the reader needs understand how it happened and why all has changed.I won’t mince words: I did find it hard at first. I am an emotional reader, so to speak, and thus were the initial chapters too much of ‘ back-story’ for me, but I promise you what comes next is well worth the effort of staying with it, although you need be a ‘tough cookie’ to handle it! And, the cherry on top, those of you who enjoy the war and destruction detail initially, will also be intrigued by what comes next.No spoilers, but expect fallen roads, abandoned hotels and a host of other buildings, bands of soldiers and worse (crazies!), and expect hardship and tribulation as well as brotherhood. And a few epic battles! The author has a ‘no frills’ style and it works well for a story that deals with the absolute loss of the frills civilization as we know it brings. A worthy read indeed.