Review: Like sitting through a performance of Parsifal without a latrine break
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2012
I do not recommend this book.  The premise is okay, but the author drones on and on and on about details that merely take up space.  When a single sentence will do, the author will write six paragraphs.  Pages are devoted to how characters will get into an abandoned restaurant.  More pages are used for characters to decide if, or when, they will listen to an importance broadcast.  There are details about who thought what, who said what over the transceiver, who did what in a truck, or how a dead flashlight was lost.  Few readers care whether someone looked for an aspirin or searched around for a throat lozenge.  All this is supposed to be about how the characters escape a reactor meltdown, but they plod through dialogue devoted to minute details.  At 25% of the book, the meltdown hasn't happened and the characters aren't far from where they started.  The author seems to know her science stuff.  Yet, I'd recommend Don Pendleton, James Axler, or David Robbins for adventure reading.