CyberStorm

Fantastical Yet All Too Real. Reading this book 6 yrs after publication in preparation for the coming sequel, this has come to hit a little to close to reality for comfort. With the ongoing Coronavirus scare and the Turkish power outages, it is very easy to see these days just how easy a scenario like what happens in this book could be made reality. A bit too real at times with its in depth character studies of just what lengths people would go through to survive an apocalyptic scenario, this was an extremely well thought out, visceral tale of survival. Very much recommended.

I thought this would be more of a techno-thriller. It turned out to be more of a man vs man or a man vs himself sort of story. Interesting, compelling, and extremely thought-provoking. It has a One Second After kind of vibe in that the core disaster is one that is entirely too plausible and leads to events that are entirely too likely. By the end of the book, the most troubling concept is just how conceivable everything described really is.

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No spoilers, but when the causes of the disaster are eventually revealed, they aren't believable - or at least, they aren't sufficient. The writer should have done more research into the emergency preparedness plan of his local county. The lack of communications between the rescue workers, and lack of communications to the victims, is just not believable. If the protagonist had just known more about what was going on, several tragic parts of the story would have been prevented.

Decent.

Great book! Loved it more than I thought I would!

An enjoyable story. If you like “end of the world” type stories with a healthy dose of tech and written in the style of Dan brown, you'll like this.