Review: Intersesting end of the world scenario
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
I enjoy this author and this review is for the first book in the trilogy.The end of the world as we know it begins with terrorism in the form of a virus being unleashed on the world that kills the majority of the population. Some of the more interesting characters are killed off before they are fleshed out and the main characters, Dean, Frank, and Ellen, really aren't that interesting or believable.  Dean a brilliant scientist probably has aspegers and hopefully as the books continue will go back to being interesting instead of a mirror of those around him.  Frank, is flawed as the best characters are but is written so that the reader never really roots for him or care.  That leaves Ellen.  I can wrap her up in one plot point.  She loses her two children to the illness and within days decides she must get pregnant again.  And sleeps with 2 men to make that happen.  Seriously!?  If it wasn't for the quirky supporting characters like the leader and patriarch Joe,  the silly and abused Henry, and the hilarious farmers I doubt I would keep reading.  By the end of the book I was thinking that in a survival community they would vote Ellen off the island for creating chaos by bouncing between 2 men.  Her type would be very dangerous to keeping them a tight knit community and worse then the survivors they consider not worth saving.  I am going to read the rest of the trilogy and hope the focus shifts.