Review: Excellent read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
If you enjoy well written & well thought out books about the end of the world, then this is the book for you! I can honestly say this is one of the BEST nuclear holocaust fiction books I have ever read(and I've read A LOT of them). The feeling of reality that is conveyed in the way this book is written is gripping & I couldn't put this book down - Gritty realism is the term that comes to mind. Sophie's husband works for the government and such is privy to information about the coming nuclear war. He sets up a bunker deep in a mountain - basically every doomsday preppers fantasy "bug out spot". He warns Sophie & his brother who manages rescues his daughter and gets her to another less well prepared site. Sophie must then make her way from the shelter to her daughter fighting various factions along the way. Written as a reconstruction from Sophies diaries, the story told is one which compels the reader to not stop until you know if Sophie made it to her daughter or not. I certainly didn't stop until the end of the story!The author mentions he is planning a series about her daughter, I really hope that it gets written soon as I loved this book!