A cyber attack on the power grid plunges Ohio into darkness. New England's power grid tries to compensate for the dark patch and they go down as well. While normally inconvenient there is a blizzard on the way and there will be no help coming. Thom had once been a prepper, but after falling too far down the rabbit hole his wife had put a stop to it a few years prior. Now, Thom is thankful for the supplies he has and he and his family open their home to others who have been caught unawares. With looters, poachers, and a drug-ravaged state now going cold-turkey off medications every refugee who approaches poses a threat to this little house in Galena. Will they choose the wrong one and endanger their families? How many lives will be lost before this cold winter ends?
I received a paperback of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. When I started this book I was confused about the fact that it jumps from 3 years after the event to the event in question. Each time it took me out of the story I was slightly annoyed by that fact. I'm not here for boating. I'm here to figure out if they survive this winter. But, I'm glad I held on because those parts end up being important and don't give away nearly what I initially thought. Of which I am glad.
The ending of this book is good, but it feels incomplete. Is there a second book coming for this series? I know this is one of three books the author has published, but since another of his books is sitting beside me and there is an alien on the cover somehow I doubt it has anything to do with the cold winter. This thriller leaves your forgetting the world around you, considering a prepper lifestyle of your own, glad that our own winter has ended.
Being only a few hours from the Ohio line in Eastern Indiana that could get ugly. I've voiced my complaints on the boating scenes simply because I felt they removed me from the action and what I really wanted to know, but in the end they weren't a complaint at all. Simply a needed part of the story. I didn't guess at that ending and I'm sure you won't either. I have already suggested this book to a co-worker and she has it downloaded and on her phone now for as soon as she finishes another mystery she is reading.
When I initially agreed to the review the author posed it to me as an apocalyptic book. Of course, if you have been reading my reviews for any length of time, I have a soft spot for apocalyptic books. Not sure why, perhaps just a change of scenery or the fact that something is going to happen is inevitable. Nothing is permanent. While this event isn't apocalyptic, as far as I'm concerned, the fall-out from it could be world-changing. Fall-out from retaliation and the possibility of a war brought to our soil opens so many possibilities in this written world. What's scarier is that this is an entirely probable scenario.
If you are easily spooked be warned, otherwise I completely suggest you hop in and enjoy the ride Chris takes you on. After all, this could happen...
This book is available on Amazon for $2.99 by clicking here. This book is available on Kindle Unlimited.
I just went to Amazon to get my customary link for my reviews as well as current pricing and seen that there is a second book to this: The Cold Winter: Call to Arms. I'm sure it will be as good as this one, but as I neither have it nor have read it yet I couldn't say. Still, it is worth knowing that there is more to the story after this book ends.
Books by this author:
The Creatures of Holden Beach...and the Murder they did NOT Commit!
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