Review: Proceed With Caution!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
Sure it's only a few dollars, but damn I hate it when I feel like I just threw the money away.Or, as the author would have written it, " I hate it when feeling through money away."The vision of some guy sitting at home laughing at us losers as he counts his money pisses me off.So if grammar is a concept you feel should be part of the writing process, avoid this book at all costs.Now, on to the review:In the first two hours of the power outage, our gun-toting heroes manage to shoot no less than 3 people.Why?For the evil act of eyeballing our crime-fighters, although I suspect the fact that they were "other than Caucasian" might have had something to do with it.They weren't raping an innocent child, or stealing a car.They were just mean looking.Hey, I'm all for protecting my family and my supplies, but I think we may be a little too eager to start with the street justice here.The story screams of tinfoil-helmet black helicopter conspiracies, and I'm not even past the second chapter.I like being a moderate prepper, and I like guns.But this seems to be a teenage fantasy about how cool it would be to be able to walk around with a Glock under your belt and shoot all the kids that picked on you in high school.The three folks the story centers on each have a personal arsenal that would run in excess of $15,000, maybe more with all the ammo. And they bought this on a Cop's salary?While buying a new home with solar panels, many month's worth of fuel and food, a massive diesel generator, and hidden cameras?And don't forget the concrete-with-steel-plate bunker in the basement.Either these guys are trust fund babies, or they stole a lot of those supplies.If the author used a little subtlety and less of the bludgeon approach, he could have gotten his points across in a much more reasonable manner.For now, it reads like an angry old man that yells at kids to get of his lawn.And shoots them when they don't.There are better books in this genre, avoid this one.