Review: As survival fiction, Disaster is a disaster
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
Spoiler alert. i love survival - apocalyptic fiction. Disaster started out great and then the local riffraff attacked the two families who united  in their efforts to survive.That is when I found the story line annoying and down right unbelievable. At that point, the book turned from the survival genre into a sappy romance.What family man almost dies, sees his son killed, his wife and daughter raped and killed, and immediately after he escapes starts silly lusting after the surviving daughter of the dead family next door.The Black family next door had some really strong characters and they deserved better treatment by the author.  The strong white women were just as smart and so how is it that dear old clueless dad of the corporate world makes it through and almost no one else.This was the worst apocalyptic book I have ever read or I would have never written the review to warn folks not to waste their money. I was so let down when I finished that I was angry and I guess it showed. I like kick ass guys and gals, but dad was the typical doofus like those portrayed in TV land as stupid. The theme seemed to be - let others do your thinking and planning and someone will rescue you while the prepared are all killed off. Where is the justice? The sexual innuendo toward the end was not a moral factor to me, it just didn't ring true as believable because it was so juvenile. I felt that I had time traveled to junior high. I read 4-5 books a week and the fact that I still remember this one says a lot.