An 8 hour book performed well with little actual substance. There was no real conflict resolution as seen in the end of previous books which felt like a bit of a let down.
Plot points from previous books were dropped completely. There is no mention of the group trying to listen to the radio for government broadcasts or info (but that was dropped for no reason somewhere in the middle of the Dark Road series). No mention of any continued national guard activity or if they saw guard or government totally disbanded where we had seen some activity and mentions of it in previous books. The group lives in a vacuum and nothing happened in 5 months between the end of dark road and this book.
Ben found a select fire M4 (an amazing resource) in the “FEMA” camp where they found Sandy in one of the Dark Road books, but it was never mentioned again. But other items made the journey with specific accuracy.