Review: Something missing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
This was a strange one for me....having read so many TSHTF books that overtime I have developed an unofficial criteria that I look for when purchasing this type of book after reading the summary and then the book it had everything on my list.Plausible disaster - Yellowstone is well known but has not been heavily written about - CheckOriginal Idea - Creating a seed civilisation in a part of the southern hemisphere - CheckCommunity building - love this, love reading about people grouping together to build something better - CheckPolitical aspect - Included - CheckSo why the hell am I giving this a 2 star when another plus in that the book is over 500 pages long!!!!, theres something missing or maybe a lot of small things that make it difficult to pinpoint the problem.Character description is basic, character development virtually non existent. In their travels and endeavour's to find and then build their retreat the two main characters meet people who they tell about the impending disaster after knowing them only for a short time, never once do those people tell anyone else like errr their government or perhaps a reporter and 100% of the time they decide to join the retreat group and just happen to have useful skills or knowledge.To continue, I love hearing about prepping on a grand scale (Deep Winter series a good example of this) but there is something about how its written in this book that after a while it JUST GETS BORING....the author describes in great length the efforts to fill in the gaps in the groups skills and knowledge and the preparation in those areas yet whilst the need for security is mentioned its never discussed in the same manner yet when the need for security is there suddenly there are 'security teams' armed with rifles.....perhaps there is not an interest in this particular subject matter (eg tactics, weapons, soldiers etc) on behalf of the author but If you are going to write a believable apocalyptic book then this needs to be paid more than just lip service otherwise its not believable.There's talk of a constitution being agreed, but whats in it who's is it based on considering they are in South Africa but the two main characters are American, there is a sprinkle of Brits and different groupings of South Africans that wouldn't immediately trust each other yet here everyone is nicey nicey.If you are into TSHTF books then this book has lots of holes In it would I recommend this book No....avoid this one, I did for a long while but eventually decided to take the risk, I wish I hadn't bothered.Phil