Review: Good Start... but Short and Underdeveloped
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
Creative enough, this book gets poins for its concept and decent editing.... but the story is very light on explaining how the protagonist transforms (while trapped in a tiny bomb shelter) from a 22 year old couch potato who lives with his parents into a six-pack muscle man GI Joe motorcycle mechanic with enough charisma to charm an ex-NASA nurse into the sack after 8 hours.  Also fails to explain how the country is ok when the president, over several weeks, suspends international travel, crushes the internet, recruits thousands who abandon family and don't whisper a word about Armageddon (perfectly surviveable if people were to tell their family and friends... Yet none do?); somehow no rumor mill spreads about any of this even though thousands of public figures are apparently assassinated to hide the truth about a phenomena that was visible to the naked eye for weeks prior to "the end".Premise is thin.  Deus ex machina abounds.  Mystical "feelings" guide character actions rather than solid plot development.Eh...