Review: A solid five star start
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.This is the first installment of a novella series,  and it does a fantastic job of chronicling the current state of things and the scarily plausible collapse of The United States that brought us here.I laughed, probably much more than should be appropriate at the bravely detailed descriptions of hygiene, or rather lack thereof that would normally just be glossed over, but it’s first and foremost in our main characters mind.Much of this episode is spent setting up the foundation of what is sure to be a great series that sports an interesting cast of characters so far with lots of romantic and not so romantic tension already building as the hormones and the secrets start to pile up.The more I think about it, the creepier the settings becomes. It’s an odd hybrid between your typical dystopian setting and a post apocalyptic one. Imagine your city today, the people are there mindlessly living and working away in factories. But with no free will there’s no use for anything else. The malls, stores, restaurants, parks, libraries, and all of those kind of “unnecessary” places would be just empty and unused.For every detail we're given or question answered, two more questions pop up,  and I can't wait for the next issue to see if they get answered!