Review: ~~What If and What For?~~
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
Having reviewed the first episode previously, this review is for the remainder of this book..All the way through this book, my heart was pounding and I kept wondering if Sophie would safely make it out of her refuge to find her daughter, Lacie in Kersey.During her attacks of paranoia under Fairburn Mountain she decides to busy herself with doing simple things.  The voices she hears are of her long deceased sister (Patrice) and her father.  Sophie wonders if she is the only one left alive.  Tuning up the Grundig, she realizes there are others.  The trek with Silas in the Hummer is one incredible ride.  This exemplifies the love of a mother so very desperately tying to reach her daughter, Lacie.  This is the part where I kept asking myself "what if"?  The reality of the utter destruction after thermonuclear explosions is a real eye opener.  And then, the question I kept asking myself "what for"?The fight at Pearson's Corner shows the desperate state of the survivors and illustrates just how low humanity would sink in a scenario like this one..The novel delves into the psychology of humans and does show the better side of mankind in several instances.Hopefully, humanity will never sink to this level of destruction.  God (or whatever your belief system allows) help us all if it ever comes down to anything that resembles this scenario.Most highly recommended.