Review: Used lending library and am glad I did!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2013
Based on the reviews of this book I decided I might enjoy reading it - after all a lot of people thought it was great!  Fortunately there was a little nagging doubt so, since I was due for a loaner, I decided to used the Prime Lending Library and not invest in the book.  I am extremely thankful I did!One of the most annoying plot lines for me was that literally every survivor's neighbor was a terrorist.  Even the teenage boy!  Was the author trying to develop severe paranoia for the readers?  Yes, I agree there are terrorists living among us, who knows how many or where their real loyalties are, but honestly!  Based on the initial premise of this book (and the expanded discourse about "sleeper cells") we should never trust anyone not directly in our own "clan".  For myself, I can't and won't live that way.While the characters seem to be nice people, the plot was a disaster (in my opinion).  There were too many story lines which didn't allow any of them to be expanded or completed.  The one scene that definitely soured me on the book was (spoiler warning) the death of her daughter.  While the author devotes pages and pages to the preparation of food or the difficulty of traveling from one bunker to another or the less than realistic invasion/war, very few pages were devoted to this tragedy.  The facts were there - the human factor wasn't, in my opinion.I see some glimpses of talent in the writing and the editing is well done.  I think there are some people who will enjoy this book.  For myself, as a fan of this genre, I was extremely disappointed.  The book was messy, for lack of a better word, and the war premise really stretched the believability.