Review: OK but has a lot of issues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
I got this one day when it was listed as free. It was a reasonably pleasant read but with a fair number of issues I found annoying. It kind of reminds me of the Jerry Ahern "Survivalist" series, but neither the story itself or the writing is anywhere near as good.First off, the sheer number of writing errors was well past the threshold of acceptable level to me. I can take some, and especially in a free or low cost book I am willing to give the author some dispensation, but there is a limit, and this one went past it. It badly needs to be proof read. That might be worth 1/2 a star to me by itself.The story goes like this.Most everyone dies for no discernible reason.Brad - a Navy SEAL stationed in Djibouti - takes off for home in a navy boat and a bunch of cool guns when all the others on his base die off.Along the way, he runs across bad guys that he kills and good guys that he helps, and accumulates some people to go with him.He also comes across a hot chick that takes up with him.He gets himself wounded multiple times but as a SEAL I guess, he heals fast and the wounds don't seem to bother him much.One would think a Navy SEAL would know better but he manages to get caught by bad guys and warlords a number of times due to sheer stupidity along the way, but gets away each time. For some reason the bad guys and warlords don't off him and take his boat and cool guns when they capture him.There is some sheer escapism involved that is not so bad, so I can't completely fault the totally implausible storyline, but it got old after a while.The gist of it is that I won't be buying the sequel. If it comes up for free, I might well download the sequel and read it, but the first book is not good enough to convince me to spend money on the sequel.