⭐️⭐️ - Okay I didn’t want to be too harsh because the last 1/4 of the book actually was pretty awesome but that’s just how bad and boring I thought that most of the book was for me. I think the story was slow, and it didn’t pull a ton of emotion out of me like I think it’s meant to. His writing style is not my preference, there’s no indication of dialogue and it was hard for me to follow. I was distracted constantly by the lack of quotations to mark conversation. It was difficult to figure out when Hig was talking to someone else or having an internal monologue. So overall, I struggled to get through this book, it took way too long to finish given the short number of pages. I’m happy to have it finished and I will watch the movie but I don’t think I’ll read another Peter Heller book.

Can’t get enough of this adventure type story, ticks lots of boxes for me and will continue to read over an over. Just when you think you have figured it out, something new comes around, pulls at your heart, makes you think about life and what you have now, teaches ya to stop an smell the flowers!

Read twice now….just as compelling the 2nd time around!

I didn’t prepare before reading and almost stopped near the beginning thinking this will be a depressing story I don’t want to read through. But it got better and better.

A similar world, less dark, less shattered than Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, but dark nonetheless, with the faint fragile hope of healing, like a momentarily guttering flame before it rises up again to grow and give more light. Keepin’ this book. As the various ravages of “Overshoot” tear through the fragile complexity of industrial civilization and this book proves, at least in it’s essence to be prophetic, I will read it again with pleasure.

My favorite book from Peter Heller so far.

Fantastic read about life after catastrophe. A well written story that I could not put down. An interesting setting that makes you realize how beneficial a secure perimeter is in a survival scenario. I would rate this right up there with “one second after” and the “going home” series.

So unusual, weird punctuation and stream of consciousness writing....just wonderful!

He is definitely a skilled writer, and very different! This is one of my favorite books!

Loved seeing the world through Hig's eyes. Beautifully written.