Next time, I will.īut the worst part is the end, going to spoiler mode. How does a book get published in 2019 with rape as a plot device? I should have stopped right there. So the tech is a mess, the characters are mostly brightly-painted cardboard, the plot varies between boring and convenient surprises, then the ending is a big reveal of something the author just kept hidden. That is an overweight, oversized load that is inspected at every opportunity. I know someone who collected armored fighting vehicles. * No, you can't just get a Soviet T-72 tank to your Indiana compound. * How do you walk across the middle of the US from June to October and only have one rainstorm? Of course, that one only exists to extract a plot point from the machine. * On a 2-lane blacktop in Nebraska on the 4th of July, why is nobody baking in the heat? * What happens to clothes that are worn for four months while walking 24 hours per day? * Where exactly do they get the energy to walk 2000 miles with no food or water? Really. Look if you are going to pin your plot on some fancy realistic tech, then you can't just phone in the everyday stuff. The more I read, the fewer stars it deserved. Everything here just feels recycled, stuff that has been beaten to death by better writers. Reading this book about a pandemic during the early weeks of the novel coronavirus, this should have felt freshly topical.
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