77 Days in September (Kyle Tait #1)

So if you are looking for your first \”end of US as we know it\” read… and want a PG-13 rather than an R rated read. I think \”One Second After,\” \”Alas Babylon\” or \”Jakarta Pandemic\” trumps \”77 Days.\” If you are looking for incredible writing \”The Road\” has them all beat. If you enjoyed the above books, this is similar with a non-prepper family being separated during an EMP. It follows both the family at home and the husband as he treks home. They both make dumb mistakes and you aren\’t going to learn much from their experiences… unless, of course, you don\’t have a clue what an EMP is… But this book does have some different twists and perspectives. I enjoyed it and it was well worth the credit. However, If you are a prepper looking for something like \”Patriots\” or enjoyed \”Lucifer\’s Hammer\” you probably won\’t like this at all. And if you want zombies or a supernatural twist like Stephen Kings \”The Stand\” you will really be disappointed.

As I write this with the book still fresh in my mind I want to make sure everyone knows I listened to the entire book and it kept my attention, if you are not deep in the prepper genre story world this book may be an entry level fun listen. If you are a prepper this book is going to drive you crazy – the premise is great, and held a lot of promise, the writer has some talent at turning a phrase and penning some decent dialog, but in detailing the struggles of the fellow trying to get home it seems that saying his legs were tired was about as far as the excitement got. This guy gets into some scrapes, and almost does not make it but each time it is because he is stupid. The struggles of the guy are never explored, where he gets food, how does he light a fire and why the hell is he always on the highway even though it is a magnet for trouble? Back home his wife has plenty of trouble in her camp but characters are never developed and the scene of the community is never explored or developed outside of a few glimpses which are the highlight of the story. With all of that said the ending is touching and may be worth the price of admission. I really do not know what to do with this story as far as a recommendation goes, If the story line interests you, take a chance on it, the subject matter is important, and the opening chapters are pretty good and were enough to suck me in. If you are a prepper and read a lot of information on the subject this book will probably seem to entry level to keep you awake.

The narrative starts out very well, with dramatic and interesting perspectives on the EMP disaster, and the people and systems involved. I really enjoyed the first third or half. But when the journey begins, the plot thins out. Events become a little arbitrary and loosely connected. Something similar happens with the other journey narrative, The Road. The Journey is a difficult form to write, because it is inherently loosely structured. Things begin to happen for no connected reason, just because we have journeyed down the road a little further. However, these two narratives give an important view of the post-apocalypse world, in that the protagonists are not together at the moment when the disaster occurs, but in fact are far apart from each other. This is an aspect of the post-apocalypse that needs to be examined, because it is probably far more likely than the tidy plot in which the protagonists are all conveniently together from the beginning.

This book is a great story…. The main Character would not have been so dumb about the whole when I need to kill this guy part…. but a great story…

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