Review: Unique situation for survival
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2014
This was an interesting take on surviving a doomsday situation but a little unrealistic. The trip along the river to get to a safe place went amazingly smoothly. There were some rough spots, but considering the length of the trip and the fact that the two major rivers they navigated would be a natural food source for the starving people in the area you would have thought there would be more contact with people along the way.  They used early morning to glide past some major cities along the Mississippi without any incident at all and encountered hardly anyone fishing or using the rivers in any way.  Most other boats appeared to be non-functioning. Hardly any  people on rafts or using sails to transport themselves along the river as opposed to the hazards of land travel seemed a bit weird. The one paranormal experience held some interest but was a little out of place. The premise of being on a paddle wheel riverboat when doomsday hits was interesting but the story seemed to be a bit sugarcoated at times. I think that something as big as that boat was would have attracted a lot more attention from the shore, from bridges or other boats than it did in this story. The other unrealistic thing about this story is that no one on shore or anywhere else seemed to have any idea about what happened to destroy their world. That seemed very unimportant and perhaps it is, but it did seem a bit odd.  Everyone loves a story with a happy ending and this did not disappoint for happy endings