John O. (buzzby) - , reviewed on 2/9/2013 + 6062 more book reviews

Well, before I start critizing it, I should say I couldn't put it down; the author did a fair job of creating a world-wide situation and developing the characters. However, his geography and science were a little shakey. I don't think that when the meteor is 88 days out (by my calculation 232 million miles) the scientific community would have any certainty that it would hit Earth, let alone know that it would strike land and not water. Interstate 25 wouldn't get more difficult north of the Arizona border, it's an interstate between New Mexico and Colorado. When searching for medical supplies only found in largish cities and Lincoln, Nebraska doesn't have it, I assume you would go to Omaha or Kansas City next, not Topeka. It also seems a given that in every disaster scenario, the person that discovers the imminent disaster also happens to be one of the few survivors, usually not due to any prior planning or even skill. The author seems to dwell on (exclusively heterosexual) rape and cannibalism more than might be the case. I think everyone underestimates the diversity of responses and situations that would occur in a real situation, assuming that the majority of the survivors' M.O. would include those two things is unrealistic.

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