I hate it when a series starts out great but starts to trail off, I am always hoping things come back to earlier form and the story regains the footing it had, sometimes it happens, an author misses the mark and comes back, I was hoping for this as I really wanted to write a good review for this series, here it comes, BUT, I have to ding this one. At some point in the series the story becomes about the lead character and not the collapse, the lawyer and process side of the author takes over and the story becomes about the rules that the author wants to order society in, and then things bog down. The word “normal” is used so often it becomes a joke and the lead character is more interested in speaking in his command voice to get things done. The story is an important one, the collapse is well written and the scenario painted in the beginning as the collapse starts and the new community is built is entertaining, the problem is that this book is stretched out way to long and the lead character is a lawyer.
If this is your genre you will find the first half of the series fun and worth the ride – and things stay that way until the last two books, and then things fall apart and the boredom sets in, and stays put. Barely recommended and that is only if TEOTWAWKI is your genre.