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Yes yes I know, crazy title and why the hell did I buy that? LOL. Couple minutes of boredom on Ebay searching under "survivalist" and this popped up. There was no description with it, so I'm thinking, is this a how to, a fiction book, what?
It's a fiction book. Revolves around a solar flare/CME type deal that causes an EMP "One Cigarette after" (One Second After) style.
It's written from the perspective of a teenage guy living in Kansas on a farm.
A good quick read, obviously written for that age range of kids. My son finished it in a few days.
Might be a good intro book for teenage kids. The writer made it easy to "relate" to the main character.
Pros- the kid learns to cherish the fact that he's got a functioning family and that they live in a good, safe area versus downtown Kansas City. Their is some twists wherein "stuffs getting better" for a while and then another disaster hits.
Cons- Very pollyann'ish in the scenario. The typical "everyone in the community worked together" BS. The only violence that happens comes from people outside their little paradise and that violence is pretty weak. The all too typical "mass attack/big battle" that eventually does come in ALL these survival fiction stories consists of about 30-40 mostly unarmed people attacking the farm, some throwing rocks and knives..... The Dad cautions the kids with another encounter involving trespassers that end up wounding the brother that "we want to shoot over their heads and scare them." I hadn't looked at the name of the author but about 10 pages in I could tell it was written by a woman. Nothing wrong with that though, but don't expect any violence like what would actually happen in the PAW. Finally, the family is able to find and procure all sorts of things that it needs AFTER the fact like horse drawn AG equipment, they build all kinds of neat contraptions that would require hard to find in the PAW supplies, etc.
Discussing it with the boy after both of us had read it he said he enjoyed it, I mentioned the kinda unrealistic parts and he said "yeah who's gonna have 40 people running at you throwing rocks?" I told him "you know the only thing you'd have to be sure of then?" He asked what. I said "how quick your mag changes are." LOL
It's a good book, fairly inexpensive and a good read.
It's a fiction book. Revolves around a solar flare/CME type deal that causes an EMP "One Cigarette after" (One Second After) style.
It's written from the perspective of a teenage guy living in Kansas on a farm.
A good quick read, obviously written for that age range of kids. My son finished it in a few days.
Might be a good intro book for teenage kids. The writer made it easy to "relate" to the main character.
Pros- the kid learns to cherish the fact that he's got a functioning family and that they live in a good, safe area versus downtown Kansas City. Their is some twists wherein "stuffs getting better" for a while and then another disaster hits.
Cons- Very pollyann'ish in the scenario. The typical "everyone in the community worked together" BS. The only violence that happens comes from people outside their little paradise and that violence is pretty weak. The all too typical "mass attack/big battle" that eventually does come in ALL these survival fiction stories consists of about 30-40 mostly unarmed people attacking the farm, some throwing rocks and knives..... The Dad cautions the kids with another encounter involving trespassers that end up wounding the brother that "we want to shoot over their heads and scare them." I hadn't looked at the name of the author but about 10 pages in I could tell it was written by a woman. Nothing wrong with that though, but don't expect any violence like what would actually happen in the PAW. Finally, the family is able to find and procure all sorts of things that it needs AFTER the fact like horse drawn AG equipment, they build all kinds of neat contraptions that would require hard to find in the PAW supplies, etc.
Discussing it with the boy after both of us had read it he said he enjoyed it, I mentioned the kinda unrealistic parts and he said "yeah who's gonna have 40 people running at you throwing rocks?" I told him "you know the only thing you'd have to be sure of then?" He asked what. I said "how quick your mag changes are." LOL
It's a good book, fairly inexpensive and a good read.
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