Review: Dull, but partially saved by a story of personal redemption
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
This is another super EMP/CME book.Most of it as dull as watching corn grow.  Pages and pages are devoted to describing the protagonist's efforts to secure his house, grow food, raise rabbits, eat stuff from cans, etc.  If I counted, I could probably find twenty pages devoted, by themselves, to the filling and emptying of various kinds of water containers.  The protagonist's plan for when the SHTF is to cut himself off from society by hiding in his house, which he makes to look abandoned.  So, the protagonist hides from trouble, and no trouble finds him.  The result is a very boring book with no action.I understand that the book is supposed to be about the protagonist coping with the uncertainty of missing family, but I found the story to be dull, and I find myself skipping over the journaling parts where the protagonist is whining, yet again,about how much he misses and loves his wife and kids.(spoilers)So for me, this was heading for a low two star review, then the book reaches a turning point and becomes quite a bit better.  The hero has an experience that causes him to question his decision to cut himself off from humanity, and he begins to engage (in a small, but very important way) the survivors living around him.  In my view, this part of the book saves it, and makes it a little more worth reading.