Review: Interesting portions, but has major editing problems
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
A good editor could have helped this bright and ambitious author wrestle this book into something really good. Far too many needless and irritating digressions and unnecessary details interrupted the flow of the story for me.And the "voice" of the story seemed conflicted: almost tongue-in-cheek gleeful at times when describing the death and destruction, at other times dry and pedantic with much of the scientific descriptions, the acronyms and what they stood for and how they were pronounced (ANNS pronounced An-us).  With the constant digressions into matters that took the reader away from the action at hand, I had to force myself to go on.Others have mentioned typos. Yes. Too many for a book to go to a publisher. One in particular: "You've reached the Utah Department of Pubic Safety..."  Really?  Which brings me to the "love" scenes. Totally crude for a book of this sort about a world cataclysm and its aftermath.  The scene with the newly-made widow who had lost all of her chldren one or two days before, having sex with the truck driver was just ridiculous. Far too much unnecessary crude language that did not move the story foward.Most irritating were the stupid asides, especially the ones in parentheses, repeated ad nauseum. The author couldn't decide if he was writing a comedy or a drama. It was not professional.  Paragraphs throughout the book constantly repeated information.  It's too bad, as I liked the premise of the book. It's just that the irritation factor is HIGH.  Really could have used a content and line editor to help bail out this mess.