" I had a rough time with this one. It was FREE on kindle... which was clearly my motivation behind reading it- especially considering what a difficult time I've had finding a new GOOD book to read. I love books & movies in this genre, but this one just didn't quite cut it. Not enough happened, and there was too little focus on what these people had to do to try to survive. There was essentially one major mention of the surviving characters trying to scavenge for food and supplies, but after that the seriousness of the lack of food and water just falls by the wayside. At one point there's even reference to the main female character using bottled water to help her grow marijuana from the seeds she had leftover after she smoked her entire stash... riiiight. I guess the author was trying to focus mainly on the horrible, disgusting things human beings would likely do to one another if put in a situation where they are trapped against their will in the last remaining town on earth. It was this aspect of the book that made it difficult for me to read... I would have preferred that he left out the explicit details and just let the reader's imagination fill in the blanks. I actually skipped over pages at a time to avoid these images being stuck in my head as I was falling asleep at night.
One final note: I was extremely curious to know the age of this author(according to Wikipedia, he's 43), mainly due to some of the language he used in this novel. I get the sense that he was trying a bit too hard to sound relevant when he repeatedly used the phrase "F*ck that noise." I found that to be more than a bit distracting. "
— Jenifer, 2/14/2014