Review: Stephen King
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
Once famously said, "The road to Hell is paved with adverbs."For me the fastest way to tell an amateur writer who didn't get their self-published book professionally edited, is to count the number of adverbs in the first chapter.'Off The Grid' has way too many (quickly, honestly, occasionally, unfortunately - and those are just examples the first few pages).There is something magical in a good story, the writer instantly creates characters you want to follow and presents scenes that you want to explore and see how they unfold. This book has none of that. After the first chapter I gave not one hoot about Mike or his daughters. I felt more empathy for his ex-wife, leaving him sounds like the best thing she could have done.I don't care about Mike's entire life history in the first chapter. The info-dump is boring. Who cares about who Mike was, show us his past by making him active in the present. The result at the moment is this boring resume of a guy who comes across as really dull, doing nothing except smile at his daughters.After that the zombies were a relief of character development.