In this book the author does get a little preachy about government dependence and FEMA. He doesn’t go off the deep end like a lot of writers in this genre so it’s still readable, but he definitely wants to make his opinion known about big government, gun ownership, and he also has a Hillary Clinton stand-in who is the president in the book and makes some stupid choices just because she doesn’t like guns, etc etc. In one part someone tells her they don’t have enough manpower to secure all the areas and crime might start to happen and her response is basically ‘Oh we don’t have enough soldiers and police to secure the cities? Well lets undertake a GIANT and MANPOWER INTENSIVE campaign to go door-to-door and take people’s guns and extra food. He really did his own storytelling a disservice there. GOOD NEWS THOUGH that’s only a small part of the book, it’s not riddled with that stuff.
The family deals with the immediate aftermath of the grid going down, the neighbors start to get a little feisty about not having enough supplies to survive, and of course this author like almost all others in this genre just write in a really convenient out for the characters in that the people who want to ‘share’ the family’s supplies end up being bad guy criminals and that problem just disappears and noone bothers them about it again(even though the neighbors are still starving). Classic mistake, but whatever.
A criminal gang also shows up towards the end, and they HAPPEN to be a black gang. This could have been fine but the author once again takes several paragraphs to talk about how black people in America today are equal to white people and have no disadvantages and that any group promoting ‘black rights’ is just a bunch of whiny freeloaders who don’t want to work hard and hate white people, etc.
Overall the book is decent but if the first book was a little to political for you then this one is going to be WAY too political for you.Good story continuation though.