D. Rhodes

More of a fantasy novel rather than prepper book

Revisado: 10-11-24

A very frustrating listen for someone who has actual experience with a lot of the subject matter. I'm about 8 hours in and not sure I am going to be able to finish it.

I'll start with just the story bits. The characters are very inconsistent. They also tend to make the obviously dumbest choice possible in order to ramp up the tension. Especially the female characters who are supposedly preppers.

Grace starts out as a fairly capable person who makes reasonable and believable decisions for someone who has had an upbringing with a preparedness mindset and is going through kind of situations she encounters. About halfway through her trip home she starts devolving into someone who does things like sitting still on a bridge after an obstacle has been cleared while her passenger is being attacked through the window, and later emptying an entire magazine from too far away at a person who has a ruined knee while she is still fully capable of running and closing the distance.

Robert, who is made out to be the Godfather of preppers, leaves his invalid wife at home with an old lady who is clueless and is known to have a drug addict daughter while running off to meet up with his own daughter who has been checking in regularly and is getting help from like minded friends who are helping her along the way and was only a day away from the very well set up and defended location he met her at.

Then there are the "TV Drama episode" level inaccuracies with basic level knowledge of weapons, tactics, infosec, and amateur. Characters who are supposed to be knowledgeable about these things are saying and supposedly doing things that anyone with more than a cursory knowledge would know isn't right or possible.

The Mad Mick series was just enough on the believable side to keep me interested. I've spent so much time yelling B.S. at my media player on this one that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to finish it.

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Crazy, weird, and different. In a good way

Revisado: 03-14-24

The story started out with a lot of story beats that made me very uncomfortable. I sruck with it and was rewarded with a very engaging story that is very different from a lot of the sci-fi I have been finding lately.

Be prepared though, the uncomfortable story beats do not end. A lot of the characters are straight-up insane in their own unique ways, but it fits with the weird nature of the story and the ship.

My only big issue with the story is, as of right now, the rest of the series hasn't been written/released on audible yet. I am waiting with anticipation for the next entry in the series.

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I feel like I wasted a credit

Revisado: 07-05-23

Interesting story idea, but just bad writing. I have no problems with the intended plot, but it just never seemed to go anywhere. I was looking forward to it being over.

The introduction was interesting, but everything after they left the cabin was a messy slog.

The ending made sense at least. I would have been annoyed if she had escaped with what her final thoughts were.

It definitely didn't feel like it added anything to the series and feels really out of place. I don't think he shouldn't have republished it under his own name, but I feel like we were tricked into listening to it by placing it in this series which contains a lot of interesting well written books. If he had gone back and rewritten it with his current skill level for storytelling it might have turned into something really good.

Unfortunately it doesn't start to get bad until well after the point where I could try to get my credit refunded.

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Plot doesn't make sense

Revisado: 02-01-23

Spoilers:

I'm a few hours into book one and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to finish. The plot is so full of holes that it holds about as much water as the Earth will when the aliens are done.

The aliens came from Mars. Why was the original plan to send a colony to Mars? You know, the home base of the apocalyptic aliens.

After the attack has started and the aliens have started sucking all of the water from Earth, the survivors want to leave because it is going to be a hot barren wasteland, like Mars. One of the characters even says out loud that the Earth is going to become Mars like.

So: Why does the entirety of their genius survival plan consist of "Let's take an experimental space ship to Mars and live there"? The Bio-habitats they are occupying are supposed to mirror the colonies they were going to set up on Mars. How is leaving supposed to be any better? And how is leaving a planet occupied by aliens to go to the planet the aliens came from an improvement?

I'm not even going to go into the bad writing, inconsistent characters, story beats that happen for no reason, or characters making obviously dumb decisions while the other characters either think it's the greatest idea or act like nothing happened.

It's a cool concept executed badly.

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Sign me up for the next one.

Revisado: 05-05-22

The LT is a little too perfect and I can see that pulling me out of the story in the future. Otherwise, I am fully engrossed in this series and can't wait for a second installment.

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Great overall plot but the writing is not great

Revisado: 08-07-21

Overall the story concept and overarching plot are very interesting and the only reason I made it past book one. With the guidance of a good editor I think this could have been an excellent series I would recommend to friends.

The writer repeatedly presents problems with instantly recognizable solutions which the protagonists blindly struggle to resolve. The Colonel will repeatedly ask a question out loud that the reader/listener instantly knows the obvious solution to. Then, we are subjected to long periods of the Colonel floundering around for the answer before coming to the same conclusion we came to immediately after the problem was presented.

I have gotten so bored and frustrated waiting for this "brilliant" commander to come to the one obvious answer at points that I skip forward 2-10 minutes to get on with the story. It is an effort to build tension that just serves to make the Colonel come off as incompetent.

And the female characters. I'm a middle-aged southern boy and even I think he treats the female characters as if the need to go sit in the corner while the men fix the mess... even the one that can force herself trough a nanite wall.

This series has been frustrating to get through, especially since it has so much potential.

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