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One of his better books.
Unusual for him, there was a pretty good explanation as to why what was happening could happen without the police stopping it.
Some of his stories you sort of feel like he wants to tell about the terrible things happening but sort of just pretend that the world would let it happen, "The Store" being a prime example.
This one was great. I take a small bit off for the ending which seemed a bit of a letdown.

Great story.
Things I liked
Karoka
Broo
The girl telling the inspectors "I really don't want to have to kill anyone else"
The new hellfire club. Wolverine is a killer and has no issues gutting people, but when he faces his new nemisis and it's a group of pre-teens it is a perfect foil. It makes me wonder if there are lines wolverine will not cross.

Things I wish were better.
Back Stores.
I do not get every comic in the world
Where the heck did Apocalypse JR come from.
How did Angel lose his memory
How did Broo come about.
Why is Paige having issues with her skin.

Another great story in the series.

How glad I am that wolverine did not gut Quentin when he first met him.
Wolverine with messed up legs, it is almost the intro given for Clarice's world in Externals.

Ugly
Pregnant Kitty

Cool
Using the Danger Room to create a weapon to kill the brood.

Broo when he is mad.

I think this was his first book.
Written before he started his Sigma Force series.
Pretty good, the ending was a bit of a deus ex machina but still I enjoyed it.
Oh and it was a story where a treasure is found and the heroes actually get to keep it.

Well what can I say.
I love post-apocolyptic novels. And this one was dark, not quite as dark as "On the Beach" but dark still the same.
I went in expecting a Alas Babylon type book, terrible event everyone draws together and while a few die they work on coming through.
But I have to say this was very realistic in portrayal of life without electricity.
Mortality rate is high in this book, with major characters not exempt from the grim reapers hand.
I would give this a higher rating but for two things.
As I saw on another review, action is sort of just alluded to then skipped over. Towards the end of the book it is obvious a battle is coming between the town and a group called the Posse. We see everyone getting ready for the fight then the book takes back up at the end of the fight with most of any action and consequences briefly explained in back-story.
Two, the right leaning of the book. Okay EMP's are dangerous, but we don't need to be told over and over how bad it is. How our government isn't working on it, how we are wasting money on global warming instead of preparing for an attack. It is a bit of an issue with one cause people. They see what they know as an issue and want everyone to focus on this issue first. Yes your issue may be valid, but there are other issues out there too, and if everyone of them got the time and resources they deserved then nothing would happen. Something the author could have learned from the characters in his book.

I have to apologize, I was reading this along with another book of short stories, science fiction and so I started to get confused as to what stories were in which book.
I will give it a four with no comment on material.