Review: EMP Zapped Rage-filled People - I think I have seen this before
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
While a reviewer has already stated this, it is worth repeating.  Each book in a trilogy can stand alone.  This has every appearance of a serial novel, not a trilogy.  Because if this is a stand alone, I was left unsatisfied by the ending.Solar flares have disrupted electricity and anything that functions using electrical current. Many people have died from the flares due to electrical disruption?  Many people have turned into Zapheads.  These are humans who lived, but are angry, violent, and who appear to have lost their intelligience.  They don't appear to need food, and they attack the living.  They also appear to be changing and working in cooperation with each other.  There are survivors.  One is a professor who estimates that only one in a million survived.  Okay, let's talk plausibility.  That is only 315 (total U.S. population is 315,000,000) people in the United States; yet, in our story, we have already met a group of military personnel (5 at least), the prepper and the 4 additional people with him, the religious nut plus 2 more with her, the Professor plus his additional 3 people, and our 2 buds.  315 is an average of 6 people per state, so I am totally amazed that 18 people have found each other already.  Next, the professor estimates that there is a 10 to 1 ratio between survivors and zapheads.  I am amazed we are actually seeing so many zapheads, because this would mean there are only 3150 in the United States, which averages 60 per State.The next problem I had was the excess of storylines.  There were too many storylines going on with nothing occurring in them besides escaping from zapheads and crazed military personnel.  It reads like all the zombie books out there.  It rapidly became boring.  It falls under the category of been there and done that.  Also, the excessive storylines prevented us from really getting to know our characters.  So, I really don't feel the need to carry on to book two.Next, this book is oddly similar to Cell by Stephen King.  A pulse over the cellphone initially turns people into angry, violent animals, but they ban together and become smart with a hive mind.  Or the Ash trilogy by Ilsa Bick, where an EMP kills electrical devices and turn many into angry, violent animals.  Bick's also become smart and scary.So, while this wasn't badly written.  I am not going to continue with this trilogy for all the above reasons.