Review: Great Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2012
I loved this book, I love the story, the characters, plot development, everything - I gave it 4 stars because of the editing errors (more about this later).This is definitely MY type of book.  I love the survival story and how a character or group of characters deal with the harsh reality of having to "fend for yourself".  The characters were believable and well developed. My one complaint on character dialogue was calling each other "bro" and "sis", who really does this?  We didn't and there 5 of us.  It didn't feel natural to me and it made me cringe whenever the characters did this, felt creepy to me personally. Besides that (which I could live with) I have no character complaints.  I was really surprised by the characters at times and truly did enjoy this book.Ok the editing errors -There was one part I was reading along and all of a sudden it said "said Billy" and I thought "who is Billy", I looked back through a few pages thinking I missed something and even thought for a few minutes, I could not come up with a logical explanation of who "Billy" was since NONE of the characters were named Billy.  There were several pronoun misuses, i.e. a female character would be talking/interacting and the author would use "he" and vice versa that kind of drove me crazy because I would think I missed something and would have to re-read to make sure I didn't daydream while reading and miss a change in character thought, etc.  *****spoiler alert****** The worse error was referring to a character later in the book as having added to a comment/conversation that had expired earlier in the book, I was reading and then oh wait "***" is dead, which was sad because I really liked this character.If the errors are cleaned up this would definitely be a 5 star book, I still highly recommend it for the Sci-Fi, Post-Apocolyptic scenario lovers out there.  Is PG rated, I would definitely let/encourage my 12 year old to read if he wanted to.