This book was a chore to finish. I just wanted it to end after a few hours in. The writing reads like a survival guide, the situation wasn’t realistic, the characters weren’t memorable and the writing was stoic and bland. Nothing about the story was interesting aside from the flu strand that was making people drop dead. I noticed that this is Charley’s first work of fiction and it shows. His writing doesn’t have any character and rings like a love song to a prepper and no one else. There was definitely some good tips on how to survive something like this in the book, but other than that, the book was pretty much a boring slog through a FEMA seminar thinly veiled as a book.
The narrator did a decent enough job at getting through the material and differentiating between different characters, but that wasn’t enough to save the awful writing and dialogue between the characters. I wouldn’t read or listen to book 2 of this series even if it was given to me for free, like this one.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.