A story about a coffee barista with a philosophy degree who has no situational awareness but plenty of attitude, is snarky to cops who are portrayed as beating people just because they are there. The narrator thinks nobody cares about black people dying in Africa. So the barista has to virtue signal by risking his and the ,doc, who may save the world, lives by refusing to leave an infected black prisoner he just met yesterday.
Oh, and the infection was brought over from Africa by the Christians. It never enters the narrator’s radar that some people must care about black lives in Africa if they are volunteering their time and money to go help Africans, but the author had to have the Christians bring the problem to the U.S.
I love the dystopian apocolyps genre, and a 9 book series about a dystopian pandemic for $5.95 seemed like a steal, but I can only get to 18 chapters. The main charector is too unlikable and the author’s view of the world is too woke for me to continue.
The author makes it clear that the hero and scientist know nothing about guns, but when they get them, they just slap in a clip and mow people down. No struggle with finding the clip release, safety, or knowing how to use a charging handle.
In all fairness, the action is good & starts from the beginning. So, if one is a woke reader, this may be a good series for you.
But for readers with some interest in prepping and some understanding of the growth one undergoes as the things we take for granted disappear, the wokeness of the book is more of a killer than the disease.
The reader does a good job expressing emotions with appropriate intonations at a good pace & in a clear manner.
But overall, this is only for woke readers.