Review: Exciting novel with some problems
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
Surviving ABE is a nice post-apocalyptic tale of different people/groups dealing with a terrible storm. Although each group is well done, I found Tess and her boat, Robin, to be quite uninteresting until near the end. Each time the narration switched to her story, I wished it would go back to the others. But at the end, there was definitely room to see a sequel in the works, though no indication by the author of any sequel.As noted in the subject line, there was too much climate dogma. "Climate change" has become a religion with no relationship to anything scientific. The common misconception that there are more extreme storms was presented, although the opposite has been true (Katrina, 2005, was the last major hurricane to hit the US mainland). In addition, it is grossly offensive that the environmentalists talk as though killing off 5 BILLION people is something noble when, in fact, if would put Hitler and Stalin to shame. In addition, there were far too many typos. "Lightning" was consistently misspelled as "lightening" something else entirely. "Deadly advisory" may have meant "adversary", the common, and horrible use of "drug" for "dragged" was another example, “lead” for “led”, “coca” for “cocoa” and “would of” for “would have” or “would’ve”. Other typos occurred as well.Based on my review, you might think I hated the novel, but that was not the case. I enjoyed it immensely, and the subtitle was “A Climate Fiction Novel” so the author was covered. I recommend this as both a post-apocalyptic and a weather disaster story.