Review: Different
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
Dawg's Clan by Tom Chambers is a very different novel from most post-apocalyptic ones. It starts, not at the beginning, but at some episode and has a double flashback, which is a bit confusing. Finally, the timeline gets straightened out and we have a pretty exciting novel, with lots of bad guys. The motivation seems to be an economic downturn, followed by a Chinese nuclear and neutron bomb (EMP) attack on America. Fantastically, the Chinese drop 13,000 (yes thirteen THOUSAND) nukes on America. This is a bit unrealistic. Maybe 130 would have been more realistic.But if one can ignore this one number the book makes more sense. It read well, but the author misused words throughout, constantly confusing, and reversing `were' and `where'. Others included missing letters on the ends of words, especially in tenses, a confusing timeline, `to' and `two', `wondered' for `wandered', `chord' for `cord', `know' and `now', `of' for `off' (multiple times), `wench' for `winch' (always amusing) and loads more. However, the author's style was decent and so the typos weren't as annoying as they could have been, had they been nested in poor prose.