Listened to July 2024.
Some good prepping tips — not just for the end of the world, but if you lose your job, power outage, etc. Mostly about the hero’s ego and gun play. Some cursing.
The hero was focused on getting home, which is good. The 3 men in real life I admire are very tough, do not get in verbal fights, can employ any amount of controlled violence to protect themselves and those they are responsible for, but they are humble. All of them are “builders” – businesses, gardens, parks, forest preserves, beaches, homes. I did not see those personality qualities in the characters in this book set.
I prefer stories about taking a mess and turning it into an organized something or taking a wilderness and turning it into a fertile, productive land.
If I want gun fights, I can turn to stories about WWII, where there was an obvious evil and the good guys sacrificed.
Just because someone is poor and lives in a trailer park does not mean they are worthless and criminals. Stereotypes.
I only listened to book 1 because I did not like the hero and the gun fetish. Some people, especially men who want to be boss, might like this.