Review: Really good PA, I want more!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2012
I read this kind of book to escape when I'm taking a break from work (home OR office). I realize that many hate zombies - there aren't any here, BTW, but post-apocalyptic is PA to me, zombies or no. And this book is outstanding in any genre.This book was well-written. It was professional; the usual bad grammar and spelling one finds in a $2.99 e-book was missing (although it is probably here in my review). The character development was wonderful, I really cared about some of the people - and the animals as well.A number of authors have told me that it is okay with most readers if they kill anyone in a book, but if they kill a dog or cat, they get a ton of hate mail. I wouldn't send hate mail, but that dog made me think of all the animals that people were forced to abandon in post-Katrina days when the "authorities" wouldn't allow animals to be taken with owners. I probably wouldn't have gone any further if Ishta hadn't gone any further. And her pet, Mona the cat - that was fun.Some people think that blood-drinking, drug-using sociopaths are Christians, and down-rate this book for making them hateful. Those were not Christians, they were crazy people who drank blood and used drugs and killed people on a regular basis. I am not down-rating the book even through the lawyer was stereotyped and, of course, a moron (I happen to be one of those, not a moron, a lawyer) but I know many moronic lawyers, doctors, liberals, moderates, conservatives, atheists, Christians, religious non-Christians, vegetarians, meat-eaters and so on. So many PA e-books slam anyone who isn't a born-again right-wing survivalist, and those books are not very enjoyable to me, a regular old-fashioned conservative.Hey folks, this is fiction, dogs don't act like Ishta, cats don't act like Mona, most people don't act that the crazies that seemed to make up have the immune survivors. I eat meat, I used to hunt, I still fish at the drop of a hook, but I can respect the characters here that had issues with killing, after most of the world was dead.I did have a problem with the woman who was crazy. She was loaded with all the standard evil, killing a deer when everyone decided not to kill it (what hunter would hunt in their own back yard, anyway?), hating anyone who had different religious views (not unusual and certainly acceptable in a lot of PA e-books), being hypocritical, acting out, etc. She was too stereotypical. And the domestic violence that was visited upon her seemed to be okay with everyone because she was loony.This book went into my collection of "look for more" e-books. I am looking forward to more PA from Mr. Wrightman.