A very frustrating listen for someone who has actual experience with a lot of the subject matter. I’m about 8 hours in and not sure I am going to be able to finish it.
I’ll start with just the story bits. The characters are very inconsistent. They also tend to make the obviously dumbest choice possible in order to ramp up the tension. Especially the female characters who are supposedly preppers.
Grace starts out as a fairly capable person who makes reasonable and believable decisions for someone who has had an upbringing with a preparedness mindset and is going through kind of situations she encounters. About halfway through her trip home she starts devolving into someone who does things like sitting still on a bridge after an obstacle has been cleared while her passenger is being attacked through the window, and later emptying an entire magazine from too far away at a person who has a ruined knee while she is still fully capable of running and closing the distance.
Robert, who is made out to be the Godfather of preppers, leaves his invalid wife at home with an old lady who is clueless and is known to have a drug addict daughter while running off to meet up with his own daughter who has been checking in regularly and is getting help from like minded friends who are helping her along the way and was only a day away from the very well set up and defended location he met her at.
Then there are the “TV Drama episode” level inaccuracies with basic level knowledge of weapons, tactics, infosec, and amateur. Characters who are supposed to be knowledgeable about these things are saying and supposedly doing things that anyone with more than a cursory knowledge would know isn’t right or possible.
The Mad Mick series was just enough on the believable side to keep me interested. I’ve spent so much time yelling B.S. at my media player on this one that I’m not sure I’m going to be able to finish it.