299 Days: The Collapse (Review)

This is book 2 in a 6 book series. The idea is that Grant has been secretly prepping, and now world order is collapsing. So Grant has to convince his wife that she would be safer in their cabin, 2 hours away, where he has guns and food storage. Yawn.  In my review of book 1, "Preparation", I mentioned that a I was a little distracted by all the typos, and general lack of proofreading. This one was even worse. I'm not sure if the author is writing part time... or if he has no friends or family who can proofread... but the amount of mistakes in this is just inexcusable. I have a hard time believing that anyone made any attempt to proofread this. In addition, this book was absurdly short, and like the first book, ended abruptly. Don't expect it on audiobook anytime soon... unless they edit the mistakes so that I can be read without stopping.

Even at $6.95 for the Kindle version, I'd have to say that I felt a little cheated. I have many books that I have spent over $20 on; I have no problem at all paying $8 - $15 or more for a well written book. But if I pay average retail for a novel, I expect it to be well written, well researched, and not a kindle version - so they could be loan out or resold. I feel that if Tate wants to put out rough drafts, the prices should reflect that. Either sell them for $4.95, or put in a little more effort to put out a professional book. If a college student turned in a research paper with this many mistakes, they would receive a failing grade - regardless of the effort put into the research.

Not only was this poorly written, but it was weak. I believe the reader could gain just as much prepping info from 2 hours of visiting blogs, and could get far more entertainment from a trailer of a zombie movie or watching a Nutnfancy gear review.

I really hate to be so critical of this work, because I like prepper porn as much as the next guy. I hope that this was just a mediocre attempt to get something out by a deadline, and not a deliberate attempt to just get another $10 per paperback from his readers. Either way, I think I am done with this series, and I can not recommend this. I'd suggest picking up a copy of Devil's Guard, by George Robert Elford, instead. Far better story at half the price, and it has no typos. I gave this 3 stars out of 5 on Amazon, but honestly, I don't think it is worth more than 2.5 stars. On the other hand, Devil's Guard is a 5 star novel that you will definitely want to get for $5 - $7 in paperback, because you will definitely want to loan in out the instant you finish it, and you will want to re-read it every year.