One Second After

I had to DNF this book because it was just so badly written! You know, I hardly ever one-star a book if you notice my reviews. It takes a lot to annoy me.

I was initially attracted to this book's premise: an EMP wave gets rid of the technology we've come to rely on, a small town struggles to survive.
The whole plot promises a lot of action but fails to deliver. It's not that nothing happens in the book, it's more like the characters spend most of their time TALKING about the action AFTER it happens. That's right, we have a book where the ‘action' takes place in meetings. I remember thinking during one such meeting where, damn, why couldn't the author plonk our main character in the thick of the action so that we can see and experience it through his eyes?

I gave the book as good as it got - read 50% - and just couldn't anymore. There are far better books out there.