Review: Good read but ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2012
This book was a decent read for me but it could have been so much better with just a little more effort. Of course thats easy for me to say since I've never written one and this review is really just my own opinion. You know how opinions are so take this review with a grain of salt and determine for yourself if you want to read it.He is my opinion though:PROS: I need almost immediate entertainment or excitement to grab me when starting out a book. This author did that almost better than any other book I've read. The action was quick, started pretty much immediantly and really got my attention. I bought it right before going to bed but had to read 25% of the book before I could put it down for the night.Although we don't know what caused the event, I really don't think it matters and the author did a great job with the planning, action, charaters and such.The first 3/4 of the book were riviting to me and I liked the somewhat fresh perspective the author gave to a SHTF scenerio.CONS: The book had a lot of gramatical/spelling/easily corrected mistakes. Believe me, if I am catching your issues its pretty bad. I usually am not bother too much by such and only when it interupts my reading to find out if I missed something or if something was off. Most of the time, something was off.The next issue I was was transitions. I often found myself reading about and upcoming event and the next thing I knew we were in the event. Some times I couldn't tell where information about an event and actually being in the event took place. It was kind of disruptive.Lastly we switched around from 1st person to 3rd person a lot and in the middle of something as well. That brought about some confusion as well.So would I recommend it? Yes I would. Would I read a followup to the story? Again I would.I think this author has the potential to write some great SHTF books but should really look a lot more into editing of the book. My hat is off to anyone who can write a book and complete it. I really don't mean to be critical of the author and to be honest, I hope to see more from him but also hope he might consider my opinions.