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Ok. I finished the book (audio version) last week. I really enjoyed it. The premise of an economic meltdown is valid and easily foreseeable. The author uses “informative fiction” to teach the reader throughout the story about the economy, the weak points of it, why things failed, and why we should have seen it coming. She further develops many of the unforeseen circumstances that could come from a failed dollar and subsequent failed economy. I learned a lot through conversations of the wealthy great grandfather (patriarch) and the 14 y/o almost savantic younger family member. The book concludes with a somewhat lazy happily ever after as the family migrates to the Free State of Nevada, a NON-utopia / pseudo libertarian world with all it’s predictable, almost cliched, struggles.  The writing isn’t amazing, but there’s some good drama, dark parts, things that really make you think, insights into the non-prepared urban/NYC dwellers (especially the more well off ones), genuine humor, and her world building of a collapsing world is consistent and believable.  I’ve ordered 3 copies to give to friends. There are only so many post-apocalyptic/collapse books about zombies, EMPs, or pandemics—with people struggling to get from one place to another—that you can read before they all start to sound the same. This one definitely doesn’t sound the same and it really made me think.  I’d give the book a 4/5 overall. But to a prepper audience that is striving to be mentally/emotionally prepared and to think outside the box I’d call this a must read. 


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Ok. I finished the book (audio version) last week. I really enjoyed it. The premise of an economic meltdown is valid and easily foreseeable. The author uses “informative fiction” to teach the reader throughout the story about the economy, the weak points of it, why things failed, and why we should have seen it coming. She further develops many of the unforeseen circumstances that could come from a failed dollar and subsequent failed economy. I learned a lot through conversations of the wealthy great grandfather (patriarch) and the 14 y/o almost savantic younger family member. The book concludes with a somewhat lazy happily ever after as the family migrates to the Free State of Nevada, a NON-utopia / pseudo libertarian world with all it’s predictable, almost cliched, struggles.  The writing isn’t amazing, but there’s some good drama, dark parts, things that really make you think, insights into the non-prepared urban/NYC dwellers (especially the more well off ones), genuine humor, and her world building of a collapsing world is consistent and believable.  I’ve ordered 3 copies to give to friends. There are only so many post-apocalyptic/collapse books about zombies, EMPs, or pandemics—with people struggling to get from one place to another—that you can read before they all start to sound the same. This one definitely doesn’t sound the same and it really made me think.  I’d give the book a 4/5 overall. But to a prepper audience that is striving to be mentally/emotionally prepared and to think outside the box I’d call this a must read. 


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