Post by jokerukrs on May 24, 2013 7:54:20 GMT
I brought this up as it had some relevance in the Real life discussion of bird flu in China posts as the plot is an extension of what happened there.
without putting too many spoilers in this the books are interesting to me as they cover the grounds of both a PA event (set in the aftermath of the initial infection) as well as the secondary Apocalyptic events that follow like an after shock.
The books are about survial. Disparate groups binding together for the good of all, those elements that would take advantage of situations and tear down the rules of the old society for their own advantage.
Linda uses a group of core characters but the primary one is actually a woman which was a nice change. The balance of personal needs versus the needs of the group as a whole were well taken care of.
It also was refreshing to see how ordinary people not just the military types could contribute - engineers, cooks, teachers are all used in the second and third books to build a new society. Infact by the third book the military realise they have no place in the new society in their current guise and have to be remodelled to fit in (a very interesting idea!)
It is an American based novel but reigns in the gung-ho attitudes on the whole that sometimes makes me switch off and the intelligent thoughts on how this may really play out more than compensates.
I would be interested in knowing whether others feel it is believable.
and for kindlers the first book is only 65p, the follow ups a couple of quid which is pretty good!