Review: A New  Concept
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2013
I've read a lot of disaster novels, but have never come across one where the City of San Francisco becomes an island.  Interesting and well written, made it sound totally feasible.  I liked it, as I said it was well written and the writer either did a lot of research or is very intelligent, or both.  I would have given it 5 stars had the families been more believable.  They were just too good and too "together" to be real.  I know I personally don't know families that  would have it together that much in the event of a huge catastrophe, and I think it would have been much better had they been more like the rest of us and had some human frailties.  As it was, the larders were totally stocked, the wives and children knew just how to handle everything and on the other side of the bay, the men and their sons "roughed it" in a 4 star hotel!  Not too believable.  And what was going on all this time? That was only touched on briefly.  Still and all, it was interesting and I learned a thing or two.  Or even three.  And yes, I'd recommend it.