Review: Long Book not worth it
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2013
This is a very long book with a lot of characters.  I was very prepared to like this book as I am a fan of disaster novels.  Extinction Event is technically very well written but falls way short of how I consider a novel should be presented.  I found it to be telling me what is going on instead of showing me.  As such, it read like a statement of what is happening.  A lot of the same information was endlessly repeated just adding to the number of words and pages but not really giving much to the story.Another problem I had was in being able to tell the characters apart as in Gerald, Geraldine, Ron, Rod, Johannes, John, Jim, Jimmy, Petrus, Pieter, etc.  Also, characters just suddenly appeared as in the driver was suddenly named about 3/4 of the way through the novel.There was no conflict.  Great stories have conflict that winds up in the growth of the characters.  In this book it didn't happen.  The good guys were perfect.  Everyone who was told that Yellowstone was going to errupt agreed with the assessment.  Everyone agreed with all the decisions made.No detailed descriptions.  The food was wonderful, the mountain was beautiful, etc.  Nothing that could make you visualize the descriptions.Unfortunately,  I would give this book a two thumbs down if that rating was available.