Run

Generally, I am a pretty open minded person who feels that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. For some reason though, when I really enjoy or dislike a book and see reviews to the contrary my personality does a complete flip flop. I want to be like, “Yeah well, your face sucks! Oh yeah, I went there. What you gonna do about it?” Somehow, I also become an inarticulate, teenage school girl in such situations, as you can see. By my star rating you can see this was a book I really enjoyed. It was fast paced with an interestingly, original plot (for an apocalyptic book that is). I also may have appreciated this book because I really felt for our protagonist. One part that stood out to me is when he talks about feeling like a man for the first time. I could totally see this situation bringing on all the stages of emotion this man goes through. I did feel that the wife was stiff, and kind of boring, though there was one mention of her being completely honest in her infidelity from the beginning that I found to be a nice side note of a character trait. It just seemed that as the husband found himself and his strength reserves she became ever weaker. Which I’m sure would happen to some people, but I was hoping it would show them getting stronger together, not just her depending on him more and more. I have been known to be of the opinion that when it comes to Mysteries and Thrillers books published in the 80’s and 90’s are where it’s at; this book proved that there are still some really good newer books of the Thriller genre out there. I have to say what really made this for me was the end. Everything comes around, and Crouch did a beautiful job of tying things up, but still making you give a little “hm”... Definitely suggested reading for fans of the genre. I will be picking up more by this author in the future.