Going Home: The Survivalist Series, Book 1 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00GAPWLLU | Format: EPUB
Going Home: The Survivalist Series, Book 1 Description
If society collapsed, could you survive?
When Morgan Carter's car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: The country's power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no way to know when normalcy will be restored - if it ever will be.
An avid survivalist, Morgan takes to the road with his prepper pack on his back. During the grueling trek from Tallahassee to his home in Lake County, chaos threatens his every step but Morgan is hell-bent on getting home to his wife and daughters - and he'll do whatever it takes to make that happen.
Fans of James Wesley Rawles, William R. Forstchen's One Second After, and The End by G. Michael Hopf will revel in A. American's apocalyptic tale.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 13 hours and 12 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: October 28, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GAPWLLU
I will start by saying I did enjoy this book. That said, I need to qualify my statement with a little more information. The premise was good, combining elements of other TEOTWAWKI books dealing with power infrastructure failures (One Second After, Dark Grid, Lights Out, etc), while keeping the story based on a journey rather than survival at a specific location. Unfortunately, I found that the book really did not live up to its potential for a number of reasons.
The most glaring shortcoming is the atrocious editing. I'm no grammar nazi, but this book is full of extremely obvious and grating spelling and grammar errors that really do interfere with the enjoyment of the book. Misspelled words, multiple words bunched together without spaces, repeating characters, missing or misplaced punctuation, quotes that are not opened or closed properly, and so on. Sometimes I would have to read a section 3-4 times just to figure out what is trying to be said and by whom.
The second disappointment I had in this book was the choice of the author to choose a first person narrative for most of the book, but then change to third person POV for secondary characters or events. At times, the first person narrative would be muddied by the protagonist not only telling the story, but also conducting internal monologue.
Story-wise, my biggest gripe was how easily the good guys seemed to get what they needed for survival. Granted there is an explanation that some of the characters were into preparedness, but even so people making a journey would have much more trouble obtaining, retaining, and transporting supplies such as food, weapons, and so on.
If you are a fan of survival tales, the new NBC show Revolution, you will love AA's book. If your a fan of One Second After, Lights Out, or the Patroit, you need to buy this book. Going Home sets a new "high bar" for this genre.
For those of us who have followed this story a chapter at a time on another website, we are excited to finally see this in Kindle and soon to be in paperback and hardcover.
This is a story of a man who against all odds, makes a epic journey to get home to his wife and kids. This story has it all: struggle of the common man in uncommon situations. Start with a CME(coronal mass ejection), a corrupt governmental agency and rouge members of the military doing their bidding and taking advantage of this event. A complete collapse of the electrical grid, fried electronic devices turning the clock back on us to the 1800's. But there is hope :members of the military and the common man who believe in the Constution of the United States and are duty bound to uphold and defend it against those trying to create a "new world order".
Although this is a work of fiction, the events that happen in AA's book can happen. We are approaching the solar maximum where solar flares will increase until 2014 and then decline on this 11 year cycle. Do a Google search for The "Carrington Effect or Event". A massive solar flare can cause our electrical grid to collapse around the world. Power distribution stations will be fried along with transformers at those stations and on power poles.
Or toss a Iranian or (enter your own rouge nation here) nuke high in our atmosphere and create EMP event and it will have the same effect.
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