I really enjoyed most of this book. Really the only part I didn’t fully enjoy was the portrayal of Federov by Kevin Pierce. I liked his reading overall, just not that character. I liked the interesting take on the apocalypse and really enjoyed the way it ended. Nobody is safe and there is some real emotion in the losses.
I have read a lot of "end of world" fiction. Mostly zombies and the like. I loved the rationalization for how the infected came to be that way, how it spread, and how the spread had multiple stages in the big picture. If you over-think a book like this you will never enjoy it. It was well-written and that enabled me to fall into the story and put aside the logistical issues. I appreciated the end of the book mostly for the fact that it is not a series and can be enjoyed for what it is. So many stories are serialized these days, drawing out a tale that could be great until it is so thin that it just snaps apart.
This book was given to me for free at my request for my voluntary and unbiased review.