Review: Idea gets 5 stars, mechanics of writing gets 1 star
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
The idea represented in this book is fascinating.  It takes place in the year 2017 and the unemployment rate is around 50%.  Houses are being abandoned by people who can no longer pay their mortgages.  Companies have closed because they can no longer meet their payrolls.  The offices of Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment and all public assistance agencies are bankrupt.  Because the government is bankrupt, fire departments and police departments have also shut down.  If a building catches on fire it just burns down.  If a crime is committed no one even bothers to try to call the police but rather citizens have armed themselves and take matters into their own hands in dealing with the criminal.In the midst of this chaotic society, a group of people travel from Nashville to the mountains of North Carolina where they can get away from some of the lawlessness and where they will attempt to live off the land. Of course, they have to defend themselves against some of the local people who decide that robbing them would be a good idea.  They very quickly align themselves with the Cherokee Indians on a local reservation so the Cherokees can teach them about hunting and fishing and growing crops and can also provide some additional "firepower" if bad guys attempt to harm them.Now, all this being said, I believe this is the first ebook I have ever returned for a refund.  The writing is terrible!  Some of the words misused by the author are "and" for "an", "is" for "his", "past" for "pass", "accustom" for "a custom", "are" for "our" and "our" for "are", and "mine" for "mind".  He also somewhat randomly capitalizes words that should not be capitalized.  He makes a word possessive when he intends to make it plural.  ("We have five truck's" when it should be "We have five trucks".)  He has run-on sentences, sentence fragments, and question marks where the sentences are not questions.It is a shame that the writing is so terrible that it distracts from the storyline.  I do not want someone to operate on me if he is not a professional and does not know what he is doing.  Likewise, I don't really want to read a book written by someone who is not a professional and does not know what he is doing. I wish this author had hired someone to proofread this book before he put it online because the storyline was really brilliant.