This is a DNF 80% for me. So many issues with the book got to me. One a unbiased editor is needed. The framework of the world and story is good, but is has many internal issues.
1 ) Stop with the horny grandma and terrible attempt to add romance or lack of it.
2 ) Stop with trying tell multiple story view points, the characters are to shallow for that and not flushed out. Such as focusing on really mundane things. Like trying to tell soldiers to aim there rifles different because you are worried about the forest catching fire hahaha. Then the author starts describing insubordination of some character we don’t care about. Look author, The US Military would never use a firing squad, the last case was in the 1940’s. We as a country have grown from that type, just not other capital punishment.
3 ) The narrator choice for this book, killed it. He has only has one base inflection.
4 ) The Military. just stop with the details with trying to explain what they can and cannot do. The MC’s butt would have been locked up faster than a Black Friday sale day. Especially when the Pentagon authorized a strike on US soil. Also would you not have dozens , you would have THOUSANDS of troops at those locations.
5 ) Then the main issue is that its SUPER Slow because the author keeps dwelling on these little things. The AI of all things in this is story is the most interesting.