Review: This book was "Utopia"-wesome!  @badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
Law and Order has a lot of "ripped from the headlines" stories, and I always enjoyed them.  Which is one of the main reasons that I decided to check this out, after reading the summary.  The other main reason is that I live in Ohio, and I thought by 2029 there would be killer cyborg ninjas or something...  But a book centered around survival after political and economic collapse, and basically a mass seceding from the nation is just as interesting, I guess....Actually, it is very interesting.  A group of conservative Southern states (if you could BELIEVE such a preposterous thing!)  bring about economic recovery, and set about limiting Washington's rule over the country, and give power back to much more local bodies.  But the meat of the story centers around Mary Montague and Maddy Capulet.... I mean Mary Catherine Marshall and Maddy Gardner.  She's the daughter of a red state Senator in Atlanta, he's a son of a b.......lue state refugee in Cincinnati, now known as Hell Town.  Funny, that's how I already think of Cincinnati.  BOOM!  Hey, I can make that joke, I'm from Ohio.... Anyway, it centers around this Romeo and Juliet-esque story, after Mary goes missing trying to be reunited with her love.As someone who is becoming more and more interested in politics as it becomes more and more dysfunctional, this was a very interesting read for me.  The author seemed like he knew what he was talking about with regards to politics and economics, which is much more than I can say about myself.  I highly recommend you check it out.