Review: Corny, jumps about
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2013
This is a new author for me, and I found the plot seemed interesting so I decided to take a chance, and the story started off reasonably well.Insect and various creepy crawlies  have begun to encroach on a young mom's suburban block, with insects welling up out of the sidewalk and showing up in a baby's diapers (ew). The young mom is a Christian talk show host (I had a flag this might be inspirational fiction at that point, but that never seemed to happen),  who relies on her producer to feed her Bible verses to say on the air.  She has a hubbie who is in construction and is not really that smart. During a routine day she becomes  entangled in a government cover up which doesn't make a great deal of sense, necessitating various characters to get involved and try to uncover the truth.I listened to the audio version of this book and found it to be rather choppy. The author relies on too much dialog to push the story forward, and doesn't spend much time on description. I felt at times the narrator's voice was unclear and the dialog felt rushed.The story overall lacked cohesion. So the wife wakes up in a CDC warehouse, and then the next thing we know the African American reporter Chuck  is in a prison, with no real idea how he gets there. The husband character who is supposed to be of average intelligence, somehow manages to find the bad guys without much effort to confront them in his stronghold.  He goes from everyday Joe to Walker Texas Ranger.Instead of everyone being reasonable and communicating and explaining stuff to civis the government people are rude and unbelievably cryptic to add drama- But Why? Surely they don't think the news would've picked up this story and ran with it?I stopped listening at about 1.5 hours.  It has an ok start, but the story just didn't seem believable. Characters didn't act *REAL* and the dialog alone was not enough to propel the story.