Review: There has got to be a morning after
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2013
This is a pretty good disaster movie in book form.  The first quarter of the book is by turns exciting, suspenseful and annoying.  Most of the time the 3rd person narration is solid, scientific and direct but at times this guiding voice breaks character with zingy references to pop culture.  It is like watching a Mystery Science Theater 3,000 version of the Poseidon adventure, only the Narrator IS Shelly Winters.  Every time I got immersed in the story robot and crow would break in and spoil the illusion jerking me back to the reality of "its just a story".  I'm sorry but once I manage to suspend my disbelief I want it to stay suspended!If you didn't get the reference to MST3K then that's what reading the first quarter of this book is like, lots of peppy references to obscure cultural icons.  About the time I was considering giving up on the story two things happened.  One, I got past the 25% read mark and the obnoxious asides died away.  Two, the random characters introduced without rhyme or reason only to be killed off by various forms of natural disaster began to get a toe hold in the narrative and develop their own plot.  The book became interesting not only as a disaster movie but as a novel of man vs. nature and grace under pressure.I would like to give this book a top review, but the first quarter was so annoying I have to degrade it a star.  All in all I was quite happy to have stumbled on it and have a chance to read it, got quite caught up in the last third of the book.  One other minor quibble; spelling errors and missing words become more prevalent in the last third of the book.  It was as if all the debris of the great disaster were sprinkling themselves in among the narrative.I will look for the sequel and hope the author exercise a little more self-control in his narration.  All in all, quite a good read.