Review: As much a thriller as a "regional post-acopalyptic" novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2012
Caldera got off to a slow start, as characters were introduced. Once it got going, by 20%, it raced along at a faster clip. It was more a thriller than a post-apocalyptic novel of death & destruction. Millions died, but only in passing, in the background. I would have preferred more of that and less involvement of the Russians. Yep, there are Russians involved and the "big surprise" was pretty obvious early on in the book. There were a lot of typos which took away from the story. "Roll" used for "role", "heard" used for "herd", "lightening" for "lightning" [only once], too many commas and loads of missing quotation marks when people spoke.But the novel was good enough that when I finished it, I looked for similar works by the same author. Overall, 4.5-5 stars for the  story and 3 for grammar and spelling.