All progress on my other books stopped with a record scratch. I hit gold choosing this series.
I looked at the total duration and thought “+50 hours… this is either going to be an quick ten minute quitter or an entire workweek of listening.” If I commit, it’s not going to be because I want to get the most of my money from the purchase of this book.
It’s fairly quick-paced series. Author, Bobby Adair passes the smell test for me when it comes to technical details he uses to the extent they are relevant. Adair doesn’t geek out with the survivalist details throughout the story, but he has a good enough imagination to make it enjoyable, invested, and paints a believable reality to make you think about what you would do. He employs common and likely obstacles for the challenges his characters face on their path.
The cover art is off putting. Is it accurate? Yes, to a slim slice of the story I’m reading. The cover delivered an impression to me that placed the buy meter just south of neutral.
This series reached me at just the right time in my life. Attitude, self-control, the joys between compromise and selfishness, the struggle of living with a hero complex… Mr. Adair hit home with at least one more in his target audience.
The author uses his characters to hint toward a deeper meaning and insight that comes with change, albeit, a huge leap of fantasy (COVID, we’re not impressed) to the societal ripple effects for survivors is interesting. In comparison to Max Brooks’ “World War Z”, Slow Burn is not as deep on communal strategies for survival , nor does it have the range of perspective from eclectic, but ingenious, viewpoints on the apocalypse; however, it does touch on the individual archetypes we can all relate to easily. Slow Burn is a familiar but different flavor and rich with taste, texture, and sensation.
The characters are believable and I’m still here, +30 hours into the ride and it saddens me each time I see the time I have left to enjoy this journey.