Review: A Major Disappointment
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
This is the third of Ms. Druga's EOTWAWKI books I've read.  'Dust' was okay-ish, 'Sealed In' was real good, but this one reads like a first draft.  It has major editing, sentence structure, missing word, wrong word (I stopped counting at 15), research, continuity, and suspension of disbelief issues. These problems become more and more pronounced as the story progresses.To a greater or lesser extent, this seems to be a recurring problem with all of Ms. Druga's literary efforts.The story opens with the main protagonist Jen using a scope mounted rifle to shoot an infected.  Later on, when this same event is described, she uses a shotgun.The character Mack, a supposed expert 'gun maker and repairman' (the term for which, by the way, is 'gunsmith'), instead talks like an author who has no real grasp of firearms and firearms technology.  Later on in the story, Mack builds 'an anti-aircraft gun' and shoots down two ground attack aircraft with it.  'Anti-aircraft gun' is all the description given; no clue as to caliber, system of operation, or any other detail.I found the author's woefully inadequate grasp of military terms, tactics, equipment and operations particularly annoying.  It's just as easy to do a little research and get this stuff right as it is to just make stuff up based on what you think you know.And the same caveat with the fancy words - it's not a bad idea to make sure you actually know what they mean before you use them.Handled differently and given more (any) fact-checking, editing, and attention to detail, this could have been a hell of a read.  As it stands now, it didn't quite make me want to gouge my eyeballs out, but it did come close.  I'd strongly suggest that you pass this one by.