Review: Good but somethings missing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
Let me start out saying that the author writes very well. The flow, wording, phrasing, dialogue...an excellent job. You get a solid feel for who the characters are and come to know them reasonably well. The scenes are well painted.But...if you were expecting this book to continue the first 3 you would be right and wrong. Like the first 3 it is a self contained story with little or nothing to do with the other books. We get mention of the aliens near the end and then it's in passing. In the epilogue the woman and her brother in Hawaii are mentioned in what appears to be a setup for the next book. Walt is nowhere to be found.This book is the story of two different groups and their struggle/stories in the post apocalypse world. So the alien invasion results are the basis but other than that there is no continuity. I found myself wondering when this book would be tied in with the others (or I should say I hoped it would be). I was disappointed.I found myself wanting to jump ahead in the story and I did find myself skim reading rather than digging in. It was a story of finding someone we lost set in the new world. Solid but uninspiring and not something to draw me back.Given that I've read 4 different books using the alien invasion and virus as the base with little to no commonality I've had my fill and won't be buying any further books. This could have been so much more. Is it worth $2.99? Maybe but I've gotten better for less and worse for more.