Review: I'm not sure where to begin...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
I sat thinking about this story for a while after reading it last night. My first inclination was to give it a complete thumbs-down, but after reading the author's response to another review, I'm going to be a little more "well, maybe..." about it.I liked the premise of the first story: only two survivors left in this particular silo.  That opens a number of storytelling possibilities - exploring fear and loneliness, and what to do when nothing lies ahead but a very bleak and empty future.  But when I reached the end of Part 1, I wasn't sure whether this was a ghost story, a descent into fear and insanity, or something else.  Unfortunately, the story was too short, and the characters not well-explored enough, for me to come to any real conclusion.The second story I didn't care for at all.  The characters were flat and uninteresting, and again, the story was too short to develop any sense of where this was going, and I think it was a mistake to bundle it in with Part 1, since they don't seem connected in any way.The rest of my disappointment came from all the punctuation mistakes.  They don't seem to affect a lot of readers, but they never fail to yank me completely out of a story, to the point where I'm counting the errors rather than engrossing myself in what's happening.  My chief wish as the Kindle Worlds and Kindle Direct Publishing programs continue is that writers make more of an effort to seek out beta readers and editors who can be tough with them, and help them polish their work to eliminate the goofs.That said... I'll leave you by saying, the story's not bad.  It's just not *good*.