Review: Unlikely Disaster With Unusual Characters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2014
The disaster that destroys society in this novel by Kurt Gepner is a truly unlikely set of circumstances but the damage as depicted in this surely breathtaking in its severity.  Fighting to survive in this nightmare scenario is a humble man trying to gather his family, friends and neighbors for a trek out of their doomed city and to a questionable future in the mountains.  The author does a nice job in developing some of these characters into decently complex people and the fears and apprehension exhibited by the travelers resonates with this reader.  The writing was a little uneven in parts though, but overall very descriptive.Though some of the usual tropes from this genre are present here, I was also amazed at some twists not only in the plot but how villains and heroes seem to switch places depending on circumstances.  Additionally, let me say the passage describing the trip from hell on the "bicycle built for two" was haunting in its brutality.Of course, with a book with this many characters, some of the plotlines remain unresolved.  Hopefully, this means the author is planning a second book because there is still plenty of story to tell here.