Review: Meh.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
Not a bad book and decently written but pretty formulaic overall.  As is typical, there's never any real explanation of the apocalypse, which would be fine if the storyline and characters were better developed and not completely cliche in their own right.  Does every post-apocalyptic novel require religious zealots, deranged military leaders, rouge rednecks, etc. etc?  Maybe so, but the whole intertwining of multiple story-lines involving characters that are never fully developed (because the book ends in the most anti-climatic and unintuitive way possible) was a big let down given the writer's obvious talent.  About the way it ended... it seems pretty obvious that this would have turned out to be a much better book had it not been split into series. I wouldn't have minded paying for the whole thing up front and wish that were an option because I doubt I follow the story any further now.  I think the author has done himself a disservice with portioning the story out.  Like I said, he's a great writer but given the stock nature of the story line I don't see how he could have made me care about any of the characters (and there are many) in such a short, erratic attempt.