How do I say this...umm...crudely written, but very interesting, although I must admit I’m interested in the whole survival prepping thing, even though I don’t really do it myself. Felt like there was a lot of equipment name dropping, especially at the beginning, not sure if the advertising helped pay for the book, or the author just thought that was the best stuff out there. The story was good, well crafted although, like I said before, crude in its format. On to the second book.... ( )

This first in series book seems obvious that the writer is fairly new to fiction. However, the story is great! It is believable and got me hooked into eventually reading the entire series as well as getting about a dozen other people to read it. ( )

It’s guilty pleasure time and I have to admit that I absolutely wallowed in Going Home by A. American. There isn’t a speck of literary value to this book, but it did keep me totally engaged with it’s survival storyline and non-stop action. The main character is over 250 miles from home when the North American power grid shuts down. All he wants to do is get home to his wife and daughters and so he sets out on foot. Luckily he just happens to be a survivalist and he always carries the necessary equipment to survive in most any conditions. Along the way he picks up a young women who also wants to get home and a black truck driver. The three have many adventures along the way, running into black gangs, redneck bullies, some military types and even a pedophile who is in charge of a camp and lording it over the other people. It did seem a little repetitive when almost all the people they met were “bad”.

The power failure turned out to be part of a conspiracy by a rogue element in the American government. Assisted by the Homeland Security Department, military rule was being put into effect, but this turned out to be a front for “them” taking what they wanted. A thread of mistrust toward authority and a definite view of city-dwellers as sheep who blindly follow and are totally helpless when all moral authority is removed is on display throughout the story. While I enjoyed the survival aspect of the story, I need to warn others that there were many grammatical and typographical errors that interrupted the overall flow. The female characters were either frightened, clinging vines or harpies that needed to be controlled (by a MAN, of course). Product placement played a strong element as well and left me wondering if Walmart didn’t help foot the bill for publishing the book.

Although the last thing I would ever do would be to grab a rifle and jump on an ATV to go hunting, this story is peopled by characters that embrace this lifestyle. Even though I wouldn’t last five minutes in a situation like this I love to read about it. I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I couldn’t put this book down - I devoured it and I will probably do the same with the sequel. ( )

Formula for prepping disguised as a book. I believe these books were bolted together from periodic forum posts. The way the book reads makes more sense if you know this ahead of time.

Not nearly as good as "Tomorrow War: The Chronicles of Max [Redacted]" which suffered from similar problems. ( )

Good book overall. I'm in love with the survivalist books lately and this seemed like a reasonable next read. It's nice to read a survival book that isn't full of religious nuts after a steady diet of books by Rawles. Looking forward to the next book in this series. ( )