Review: Complicated but still good.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of storylines in the books I read. But by about halfway through this one I just felt lost. There are two worlds; before and after the event; 2 of each character (one from each world); and flashbacks that go even further back. So one character can potentially have 3 time settings x 2 worlds = 6 possible settings  And that doesnt even account for the characters who can switch worlds at will. And there are LOT of characters! And on a kindle it's not easy to quickly page back to clarify the confusion. In the afterward,  the authors acknowlege how complicated it is and how it could be difficult to keep track of everything. I finally just decided to go with by ignoring my occasional confusion on who was who and when and where. But it's always more fun when you can hold all the alternate possibilities in your mind at once in stories like this.That said, and in spite of my mild frustration, I am looking forward to the rest of the books. The writing is really good. I like the characters. I like reading about the apocalypse and this series is one of the good ones.