Review: Good story and very readable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2014
After reading the Book 0 example, I was pleasantly surprisedthat the "blog style" writing is readable, although the authoractually kind of slips into "regular" style writing here and therewith "dialogue" written into the "blog". (that she is writing on herlaptop computer) So that helps.This is a semi-typical post-apocalyptic Survivalist Fiction story.(immediately after the "apocalypse", so survivalist rather than later-dystopian)We haven't discovered what actually happened yet, and there doesseem to be some sort of something "extra" involved that is alluded tothroughout. There was some sort of a large explosion in the atmosphereand there is a daily acid rain that falls and will melt people, so thereseems to be something odd going on. And most of the people seemto have disappeared quickly and no one knows what happened to them.So I'm expecting to discover something "weird" in the next book or two.Although the story is more or less believable, it does require a bit ofsuspension of disbelief a la the weird acid rain and what it does anddoesn't affect. But I can just let that go and enjoy the read otherwise.She is a pretty good writer and the story is pretty good and interesting.The only semi-irritating thing was not knowing the geographical locationin which the story takes place. (unless I missed that) My guess is thatit is Australia, since the time frame is December/Christmas, and it is warm,plus the "British English" spellings, like 'tyre' for 'tire', use of 'mum', andsome others. Maybe Australians don't talk as "British" as Britains,because it seemed a little "light" in that respect. I also didn't notice anystrong "Australian verbiage". So I'm not sure what's going on there.There were about a dozen or so editing issues, which always seem worsein a well-written book. Hopefully she will correct those.For some reason they didn't bother me as much as they usually do.Although the book fails the "more than a few" editing issues rule I usually use,they weren't so common or egregious that it hurt the reading experienceall that much. Just minor irritations here and there. (unfortunate)I'm going to purchase the next book. (hopefully less editing issues in it)I would give this book at least a solid four stars.