It’s such an unfulfilled series, especially this book. Lots of remedial preparedness tips disguised as endless dialog. And, the tips were often misdirection, showing the author’s lack of real life parallel experiences. Cotton socks are about the worst choice, based on years in the army and backpacking. Go with wool or almost anything but cotton to reduce blister chances. The Lifestraw seems on the surface to be good, until you realize you want to filter for a group and carry water with you. The Sawyer squeeze filter is far superior at slightly more cost. Also, a particular phone app saves the day, yet the grid is down and phones without the net don’t share data over miles. “No class exists teaching you how to kill”. Really? I guess if you’re limiting your world experience to NRA classes and forgetting that military training exists and many of us served in the military (nothing but an evil entity in this series). Am I unfair to point out technical flaws in a fiction story? I don’t think so, as this author takes great pains through endless dialog to give tips. But if I do set that aside, what’s left is about 2.5 hours per book of a mediocre story. I wish I would have been warned. The two redeeming things I’ll give the author though is he tried, and, he kept the dialog PG.
