I still can't believe I saw this one through to the end. The most clichéd characters ever written. All of whom should be considered white unless otherwise specified, and they will DEFINITELY BE specified. "They rolled the black soldier over..." "The Hispanic woman asked..." yeesh.

And the author is an unbelievable horndog; every other line seemed to reference "good-looking women" or getting to sleep with his hot ASIAN girlfriend (or his disappointment when she, perhaps rightly upset over observing violence and death, just wants to be held by the narrator). Women exist in the story simply to reinforce the necessity of the Bechtel Test.

As for story, it's somehow both too intricate and mind-numbingly vague. Collapse, sort of maybe? Some authority but its total absence? A random interlude and some killings at a possibly-renegade-possibly-not hidden army base in West Virginia, never to be spoken of again?

I've already spent far more time on this review than the book deserves. But jeez, is it this easy to be published? ( )

Good book but a bit fast paced for me. I would liked to have gotten more info on how the world got to the state it was in and more character development would also have raised my enjoyment of the story. Will follow up with the next book as it did provide me with enough entertainment that I want to continue. ( )