Review: I think the author does himself an injustice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
In the first few lines of this book the author describes his work as 'hybrid between how-to and fiction. It contains information on survival techniques for primitive survival situations'.I feel it portrays the wrong view to a potential reader (it did me initially), I have read many many TSHTF books they all come at the subject matter from different angles this series comes at it more from the prepper side meaning there is a lot of information on how to stuff but its not the first to do so yet its the first to almost have an apology disclaimer at the start.Dont make the mistake in thinking that the prepper / survival material is to the detremient of the story far from it, the material has been cleverly integreted into the story for example how do you write about how to survive using stone age techniques...EASYThe main character who is an ex special forces soldier goes off on a solo journey into the Mountains to grieve for his beloved wife after losing her and his unborn child to plague, whilst there he is attacked by a large groups of mauraders, he slowly realises that the negative emotions which occur from terrorising the mauraders and ensuring they suffer long and painful deaths are a good way to mask his real feelings of loss for his wife, totally believable to me and well written with some humor along the way. How Adrian earns the nickname 'General Bear' is a classic and in dark depressing apocalyptic times creates the birth of a legend.As I said in my Book 1 review, this is another short book (I hate short books), I got around that by treating all 4 books as 1 big one, bare this in mind if you also dislike short books!!Really enjoying the series, onto Book 3.Phil