SPOILERS! I was super excited about this story since it did not revolve around some uber prepared or specops/etc person..aka average people were the focus. Details are sometimes a bit too much, but paints a detailed picture easy to imagine. My gripe comes when even though the characters are +160 days into the apocalypse, and have faced numerous adversaries, they make choices as if it is day 2. Plus the children are untrained and always cowering. Nope, sorry…. you have survived this long, you are hyper sensitive, not making dumb/weak choices (too many to list) and the kids are just as (if not more) feral and deadly than you are. It is as if the learning curve gets erased.