Review: Very disappointing. I could not finish it.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
I read the reviews and decided to take a chance on this collection. It seemed to offer a good story line and strong characters. I read prodigious quantities and this looked to be a collection that would keep me enthralled for quite some time. I found, however, that although it is fairly well written, it just does not offer any meat to sink my teeth into, The entire book, at least the first 37% of it, is written as if for Sunday school class. To make matters worse, it is being read to the class by Mr Rogers. There is no hard language or violence that is to be expected in an apocalyptic story. The characters are constantly being pursued by some very wimpy aliens that never seem to catch them. Our heroes fire a barrage of gunfire at the aliens and the aliens fire their ray guns back, but neither seems to do any damage to the other. It reminded me of The A Team.If you are a YA and enjoy stories of this nature, then this may be for you. If you are a die hard fan of great apocalyptic/dystopian fiction, not so much.