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Childishly Simple

Revisado: 07-23-19

I really like the first book, it started off good. And with Kevin being the narrator, I thought that this series had a lot of potential. But, it just keeps going down hill. The author puts little to no effort to develop any characters but the main character, and he is even comically developed. Some how he is now Mr. Goodie Two Shoes that everyone like and is so jouleous of cause only he has those basic survival skills. His and the overall morality in the book is childish. Adults talking about tickle parties and blushing, really? Was this book written for a fourteen year old audience. I am not into hero journey novels that try to make a clear and simple destruction between the protagonist and what people call, the bad guys. In real life, things are rarly that simple. What people call, bad guys, are usually people with slightly different values than you. Very few people are just purely evil for evils sake. And this event that took down society would not have taken out enough people to have a biker and a hillbilly in charge. I guess this book is just not for me, but if you like simple tale were the idiots always wins, this one if for you. If you want to hear something more interesting, try Commune or Dusk Fall. This series is a waste of money, as a lot of the books that Kevin reads is. I wish that he real better quality books. Many of them have the same stupid preppier pot lines.

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So so but read well

Revisado: 01-15-19

Interesting story, little short on the hard sci-fi but the narrator does a good job with the voices of everyone from the different aloe abs to the humans.

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Basic and predictable

Revisado: 12-20-18

The story was very well narrated, but from the start it felt really old. For most people this story is going to be great, total five stars, but for me, I find stories like this very unrealistic. Everything is black or white. The characters are either totally perfect with no flaws, are total low lives. There is a lot of Christian morality that is totally ridiculous, especially around sexuality. The couple waiting till they get married, the comical description of their love making. This story was written by someone that grew up in the early stages of pop culture, 50’s, and they have produced another Leave it to Beaver, simple happy ending story. We live now in a age that people want more creative realistic stories on life that accurately display the complexity of human existence.

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Good realistic survival storyline

Revisado: 12-04-18

Finally a realistic survival story in which the author actually thinks, realistic characters that are not simply. We are all just trying to survive people 😆👍🏽

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If Mad Max and GOT had a kid, it would be this.

Revisado: 10-20-18

This series could become a show like Game of Thrones. The characters are great. The way the author develops them and the uniqueness makes you bond with them, even the bad ones like Gaston, because the author is telling you the story threw their eyes. The story with the wolves was great, I loved their perspective, wish the could continue with it. I do wonder if any animals or humans survived with mutations that gave them some kind of advantage? Also, how do they pass down reading knowledge, and if they do that, why have they not found any books with greater knowledge. Lots of characters can read, but none have taken that any further with the signs of all the greater knowledge from the past.

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Unique after disaster story

Revisado: 10-20-18

Very good start to a good series. Great characters and they are developed well. The series is like Madd Max combined with Game of Throwns. It shows you how fragile societies and knowledge is. Losing and rediscovering knowledge is something that probably has happened many times in human history. A generation that grows up without the passed down knowledge of human history has to go back to grown zero, and it starts with our most primal needs and desires. Of all the books like this that Keven Pierce has done, this is by far the best. A lot of the books he has done are flooded with religious or political undertones. This is just a great human story.

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Basic low level fiction

Revisado: 10-10-18

I got this book because it is on Kevin Pierces resume. He does a great job as always. He also does a lot of disaster / preeper / dystopian fiction. I would put this in the catalog of Preeping.

As for the book, I will not continue with this series. It is very basic and lacks any adult complexity. Very black and white, characters are very simple as the story is told with a comical Christian morality. Even though they stress the main character is not political, he is obviously a conservative, at they constantly paint liberal people as crazy, like his rivals parent just cause they want gun control and all the civil unrest is caused by unstable liberals? The book is filled with basic preeper fear of modern day life. Kevin does a lot of books by Christian authors like Tom Abrahams. Tom does the best in terms of creativity if you can get pass the Christian undertones and fear. But this author doesn’t have the same level of creativity. The main character has everything goes his way and is just ridiculously boring and simple. His girlfriend relationship is like a high school relationship. Other characters keep telling him he needs to make a honest women of her, like this is the 1900. If you like Kevin and want to here something interesting try DustFall.

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I don’t know 🤷🏽‍♂️ about this one?

Revisado: 09-27-18

As most people know Kevin Pierce does a lot of EMP / survival / preeper readings. As always, he does a very good. Main reason that I purchased the first three books.

As for the story, it has a lot of the elements most of these survival disaster stories, dis-trust of the government, only the prepared will survive, and a total lost of all civility. It reads like a preeper infomercial. The characters are not very good. They try to make things very simple black and white. These guys are just evil, the other guys are all good. Too simple of a plot to keep my attention. Just because there has been a disaster, does not mean all the books are burned and we go back to zero. Do we forget all of science and technology or forget how to read, WTF? It is also covertly racist in several ways in how it refers to certain characters. A lot of survival stories have these ideas like gangs will run the cities with racially stereotypes running the gangs. A lot of ppl in America have weapons, and most are not in gangs. There is no gang that can take a city over even after a disaster. They don’t have the size, numbers or organization to do something like that, it’s just a fear tactic used by racist. Even the way he talks about the Korea characters is ignorant and a stereotype. This series is not worth continuing. Even the preview of the next books or going into hard core government takes over paranoia. These types of stories need to evolve and get some real creativity, still have not found that yet. Sometimes I think that these disaster books are more like wish books so people that think like the author can role the clock back to a time where they feel more empowered.

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Good Old Boy Story

Revisado: 09-09-18

I listen to the whole series, but will only write a review for this one. I purchased this series to listen to Kevin Pierce's country bumpkin way of reading books. Very soothing and entertaining. That said, when he is the master of EMP and preppers story telling for some reason. It really speaks to how popular this mindset is in rural and southern states. That being said the author is a new prepper that must live in a Southern state. He drops lots of civil war references and all of the story takes place in Southern states. People down south seem to be obsessed with the civil war, I guess it is a defeat they just can't get over. People don't talk about that up North or do reenactments like they do down South. The story is kept simple for the most part, no complexity or explanations on why only those two location had nation relevance. He says that 90% of the US population was lost, but even with that, there would still be 30 - 40 million and that is a lot of people. Those two locations would not be the focus of the US. Like most preppers he is fearful of the government and never explains what happened to all the U.S population. There would be people or bodies of people everywhere, and resources would not be that limited. The dialog between characters is simple and repetitively. Subordinates are talked down to, somewhat comically, even in different organizations. Very black and white, the criminals are criminals and the good guys are clearly the good guys. In real life, things are rarely that simple and few people have pure evil or altruistic ideas. That author also seems to be an old baby boomer by the way he always identify his characters by race, like that is the primary characteristic that defines them in his mind. Overall, it lacks the complexity to keep my interest, but Kevin was very good.

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simple feel good story, good narration

Revisado: 08-29-18

Overall the story is solid, the characters are somewhat appealing, but its a nice simple story. No complex plot twist and you see everything coming for the most part. Very little science elements about the EMP and how it happened or details about the effects. He also embellishes the disparity of the nation. They even guess that 80 - 95% of the population would not make it, but that is still 20 - 80 million people. Things would not fall apart to that extent and people would not go that savage, and it they did, your not traveling 2000 miles to Texas and making it without a scratch. The story is clearly written by a doomsday prepper point of view. The paranoia and skepticism in the Government is heavy. Ultimately it was Kevin Pierce narration that kept me listening. He has that dumb country bumpkin, Grandpa telling a folk story kinda voice. He is no R.C. Bray, but does have a unique soothing voice. It probably one of those voices that you love or hate. I listen to the whole series and it should just be one book, kinda madd about that. 5 -6 hours is too short for a book over ten dollars.

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