A typical CME survival story. Our protagonist Ripley Miller is a college student at the University of Maryland when the grid went down. We follow Ripley and her college friends as they deal with the loss of power and make plans to travel home. They run across the usual band of brigands who surface as soon as a crisis appears. There are several sub-plots of different people dealing with the situation in their own way. Not much action, but lots of conversation. At this point I don’t know if I’ll invest in book two or not. Three.point.five for a talkative start.