Review: I almost didn't read this one...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
...and a whole lot of the more 'refined' readers will not rate this book well. It is told from a first person prospective and is kind of 'skippy' and short and not a few typos. But, I have to say, right before I gave up on it, right before I thought "is this a joke?" I found myself starting to like Jake (the man telling the story) and I must also admit that I laughed out loud several times at the way Jake tells the story. This is a light hearted, very shallow view of another post apocalyptic story. But I did end up with a grin on my face when I got to the end...okay, onto the review:Twenty-five years after a meteorite shower created by our own "meteor busting" technology  causes a rain of tiny particles that fall harmlessly to Earth...But not so harmless it seems, because an unidentified sickness causes an almost overnight, world wide die off. And eventual mutations of some of the fauna of the suddenly very empty United States. Giant bears. Giant (and very nasty) groups of six foot baboons.  Telepathy in some of the animals and people...dogs that are huge, but still man's best friend..mostly.The people are scattered. The few cities that manage to exist (crowded cities were instrumental in helping the extraterrestrial sickness wipe out civilization) are full of people that don't want anything to do with 'Outsiders', a term they use for the wild people that roam the vast empty country, but they DO need them. The outsiders find 'treasure' ...a loosely termed word meaning 'stuff the city people need, and they have a barter system set up, but there is no urge to live the lives of the other. The city people trade with the outsiders, and then ask the rough looking bunches to leave before sundown. Which is just fine with the outsiders because they wouldn't spend a day cooped up behind those smelly confining walls!And it just so happens, that the story is told by Jake...(no last name). He and his small group of misfits find treasure and bring it in to the cities to make a living. They are tough and each likeable and unique in their own way.. racism is a thing from before The Fall of the meteorites. There aren't enough people left to be a minority, nor a majority for that matter. They are happy to roam the plains and hell hath no fury for someone that gets in their way or tries to bring harm to Jake and his bunch.Life goes on...until word of an invading army from across the ocean makes a landing and starts killing or raping their way across the scattered remnants of US of A (as Jake calls it. They're headed somewhere fast, and up to no good if they get there. Jake and his bunch decide they don't like that idea. A plan begins to form, because our country may be in shambles...But, by Damn!, it's still ours!!I don't know if the Author of this book writes ALL of his stories like this (I don't think it would work for long) but this book was okay...I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't take themselves and their reading too awfully serious. it was cheap.. catchy title, and a fun few hours.