Review: A gifted Writer!  A great story! I loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
I found this post-apocalyptic novel in the 100 Kindle books for.99 or less.  I was intrigued by the reviews and that it was just recently published.  It turns out this is a first novel by Ryan Henry.  It was certainly a quick read, which I love in Kindle books, but the reason I'm writing this review is because I loved this guy's writing!  He is absolutely gifted!  One of the reviewers said he felt the characters lacked depth.  I say the character of the players comes out thoroughly by the nuances in their actions and dialogue.  I mean how much more would you know about someone you just met.  What is it that makes us trust or distrust another human being?  I think this author brought every single character to vivid life, even the dead who were related to the living, were brought out.  This authors descriptions of things, and places, and movements, and actions wowed me from the start and never let up.  Nothing was over described. Dialogue was honest and real. The characters, especially the main two characters, were anything but stereotypical.  Trent, a young ex-marine, is the protagonist, and he has to be a survivalist or die but he in no way comes off like an x-men or MacGyver.  In fact, just the opposite, he came off as real as my own brother.  The author does not make him out to be a muscle bound firefighter-type calendar supermodel either.  As I was reading this book, and absolutely loving the writer's sophistication with details such that I could totally visualize exactly what was happening, I thought to myself, the author must have done a ton of fieldwork to grasp such nuances, not to mention a vocabulary that whetted the appetite for those of us addicted to reading.  Also one of the reviewers said they didn't like the ending or something to that effect, and I'm going to say again, though the genre is common, there is nothing in this story that is typical, lots of great twist and turns, and an ending that is certainly not stereotypical. For me, I felt so absorbed in the story as seen through the protagonist eyes, that the ending left me pondering what does the future really have in store for us.  Just a great read!  Congratulations on this publication Ryan Henry!  I hope you keep them coming!