No Direction Home Ordinary People Surviving Extraordinary Times Mike Sheridan 9781547024384 Books
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Ordinary People Surviving Extraordinary Times A college student in Knoxville. An Irish couple on their dream vacation in Orlando. A bank robber in an Atlanta prison...what do they all have in common? They are survivors of vPx073, the most deadly virus ever to be unleashed on the planet. One that has brought civilization to a standstill. Haunted by the tragic death of his Gulf War veteran father, Cody Parsons is a struggling student at UTK when the pandemic hits Knoxville. Soon the sharpshooting skills his father taught him as a fourteen-year-old are put to good use --- especially when an ex-US army combat engineer takes him under his wing. As food and water runs out, and roving gangs take over the cities, the paths of some very determined survivors are destined to meet...with surprising consequences. With strong, original characters that jump off the page, this is a fast-paced story that fans of post-apocalyptic survival fiction will appreciate.
No Direction Home Ordinary People Surviving Extraordinary Times Mike Sheridan 9781547024384 Books
Ugh I really don't like writing negative reviews but I feel like I have to be honest here. I was super stoked to start this book cuz it had super high reviews. But I respectfully disagree with those and here's why:I thought it highly unlikely that Cody is just so blasé about the whole end o the world from the beginning of the book. Like eh, guess I needa go bury my bloated dead roommates. I think most ppl would be a lil more shell-shocked, in grief and just --- confused, freaked out, whatever. But all these characters seem nonchalant to some degree. That didn't ring as realistic to me.
Secondly, every group up and spontaneously decides to head for the hills and vacate the cities. I don't think that's realistic either. Not everyone is going to want to leave the security and comfort of brick n mortar buildings they've known their whole lives. I realize this book focuses on the groups converging on basically one location, but all the characters are unanimous in this decision. No characters disagree and peel off to try an alternate plan. All hell immediately breaks loose and gangs are suddenly running amok. (I would like to think it would take a lil longer for anarchy to descend but maybe I'm wrong on that count.) Apparently there is a large discrepancy of male to female survivors with there being like 5 times as many men that survived as women, making women a new commodity. The violence is appropriate.
Thirdly, the survivors all do the same thing in the same order. They decide that food and water are priorities so they go to the grocery store. Next they decide they need guns and ammo so they all go to Dick's. Next it's the truck lot, followed by the trailer lot. EVERY group does this, in the same order. Highly unlikely most ppl are goin to be that logical, methodical and organized during an apocalypse. It became very dull for me reading basically the same scenario for each group. Extensive details of the specific brands of various weps was boring and unnecessary. Same with the overly descriptive travel routes. Obviously the author has traveled theses routes and wants us to know that. But who cares? It is irrelevant to the plot overall.
This story is strictly for the gung-ho preppers mentioned in the novel. People that are excited and satisfied just to read anything apocalypse-related and don't have high expectations. There is no depth, character development, no deviation of decisions. No MEAT to this novel. I won't be obtaining the sequels.
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No Direction Home Ordinary People Surviving Extraordinary Times Mike Sheridan 9781547024384 Books Reviews
The catastrophe happens fast here, nothing wrong with that. However, the various characters seem to get over it pretty fast too. Not a lot of residual trauma there but they are all fairly one dimensional. There a few pockets of survivor stories scattered around and somehow they all decide to go to the same general area. This also ends rather abruptly even though there is clearly a sequel. I may give the next book a try and hope for some improvement.
Good premise, not good execution. A disease where almost everyone dies quickly, no societal breakdown, just almost everyone dies.
I had a hard time with the characters. Very mono dimensional, very internet commando type. Strangely, (almost) no one seemed to have loved ones that were lost.
In the end, I didn't finish reading the book. I got a little more than half way through. I can't recommend this book to anyone really. That said, there are sequels, so some people are liking the series.
There are many post-apocalyptic fiction books out there. I've read hundreds of them.
I have a personal grading system with these books using 2 criteria. One is how prepper-focused are they? Some books are written by people who are into prepping and go into a lot of detail about equipment, guns, and how to do things with no electricity. Other books are more plot or character focused on what it would be like in a post-apocalyptic world, with little time spent on the prepper details.
The other grading system is quality. There's 3 levels- Great, Good, and The Rest. Great are books by authors such as Steven Konkoly and A. American whom are excellent writers. The Rest ranges from decent to, uh, nice try. Good is the most interesting category, which is composed of people who have talent and can tell a tale.
I'd put No Direction Home in the Good / Less-Prepping category. There's not a lot of detail on prepper gear or processes- that isn't the focus of the book. The book is good in the sense that it has several interesting characters that hold your attention. Mike Sheridan has talent and with this book he's made me want to read the rest of his series.
If I was between 12 and 14 this MIGHT be enjoyable but as an adult, it is sorely lacking. The characters are pretty stereotypical and wooden and the plot line moves way too fast with not much development. One day everything is ok and in the blink of an eye the world has ended and everyone already has a survival plan. And these plans just happen to have everyone going in the same direction to the same place. I would give it props if it was an original story, but it's not. If it had original characters, but it doesn't. And it kind of ends abruptly with no real conclusion. I supposed this is to get you to buy the next book. I will pass.
Ugh I really don't like writing negative reviews but I feel like I have to be honest here. I was super stoked to start this book cuz it had super high reviews. But I respectfully disagree with those and here's why
I thought it highly unlikely that Cody is just so blasé about the whole end o the world from the beginning of the book. Like eh, guess I needa go bury my bloated dead roommates. I think most ppl would be a lil more shell-shocked, in grief and just --- confused, freaked out, whatever. But all these characters seem nonchalant to some degree. That didn't ring as realistic to me.
Secondly, every group up and spontaneously decides to head for the hills and vacate the cities. I don't think that's realistic either. Not everyone is going to want to leave the security and comfort of brick n mortar buildings they've known their whole lives. I realize this book focuses on the groups converging on basically one location, but all the characters are unanimous in this decision. No characters disagree and peel off to try an alternate plan. All hell immediately breaks loose and gangs are suddenly running amok. (I would like to think it would take a lil longer for anarchy to descend but maybe I'm wrong on that count.) Apparently there is a large discrepancy of male to female survivors with there being like 5 times as many men that survived as women, making women a new commodity. The violence is appropriate.
Thirdly, the survivors all do the same thing in the same order. They decide that food and water are priorities so they go to the grocery store. Next they decide they need guns and ammo so they all go to Dick's. Next it's the truck lot, followed by the trailer lot. EVERY group does this, in the same order. Highly unlikely most ppl are goin to be that logical, methodical and organized during an apocalypse. It became very dull for me reading basically the same scenario for each group. Extensive details of the specific brands of various weps was boring and unnecessary. Same with the overly descriptive travel routes. Obviously the author has traveled theses routes and wants us to know that. But who cares? It is irrelevant to the plot overall.
This story is strictly for the gung-ho preppers mentioned in the novel. People that are excited and satisfied just to read anything apocalypse-related and don't have high expectations. There is no depth, character development, no deviation of decisions. No MEAT to this novel. I won't be obtaining the sequels.
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