This could have been a great series, but I stopped partway through the second book. I’m not sure if a nuclear war and nuclear winter isn’t horrific enough for the author or what, but apparently he felt the need to include a storyline of a psychopathic serial killer who likes to dismember and torture his victims. In book two I stopped when it got to the scene of Patrick in the bank with his next victim. Totally unnecessary IMHO and churned my stomach. There’s not nearly enough of the storyline of what happens to everyday people or what the world looks like or how this affected our ecosystem, but if you want inside the mind of a cross-dressing transvestite slasher, this series is for you.