Overall it was fine and fairly typical of the prepper and apocalyptic genre. Personally, part of what I like about the genre is characters navigating problems and crafting creative solutions. That element was there. However, where characters in others’ stories of the same genre seem to typically have a certain level of confidence, the entire ensemble in this book series was laden with personal mental health issues before SHTF. At times, the author’s focus on that aspect made for better real human character moments. More often it made all the characters a little bit tedious. Another pattern was an ever escalating challenging more and more inventively imagined series of compounding SHTF events within the main SHTF event. To the point where by the end of Book 4 the cascade had kind of gone too far, and as the reader, rather that rooting for the characters to fight on and triumph (into what I presume is a continued series), my feeling was that they should all take themselves out of their own misery. Their unlucky self sabotaged track record, and the escalating pattern, established by the storyline’s imposed SHTF PTSD, on top of their various pre-existing mental health struggles, left the characters in an almost scifi world, too different to bother living in.