Review: Pretty decent story: 3.5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
OK is how I would rate this. I have  read  worse, much worse!, and of course read better. This is another of what I call "the everyman reaction to the apocalypse"stories that I have been stumbling onto recently. I normally prefer more  heroic protagonists, but there is something to be said about the struggles of common men at the end  of times. I am losing patience with the lack of physical prowess of the  main character  though. Reading about unremarkable people in an remarkable situation has been the theme of the past few books I have read. Perhaps, the ennui has taken hold and I am simply bored, waiting for a hero to emerge, but this book annoyed  me in some ways. Number 1: the author referred to magazines as rounds and to rounds as bullets...I am a little tired of authors writing action stories and not bothering to research firearms. Number 2: I generally feel sex is an unnecessary element in apocalyptic fiction and while there was no actual sex in this book there was a homoerotic theme that I found distracting and which felt forced--couldn't the two guys wait to kiss until they were not on death's door? Just sayin... The story also ended quite inappropriately with no resolution as a blatant set-up for the sequel-a common tactic of Indy writers and not surprising, just annoying. I will likely buy the sequel in spite of my misgivings about the first book.