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** spoiler alert ** **Let me preface this by saying, I'm sorry for the rant about antibiotics, but this is a real and serious problem the world is facing right now.

I didn't even come close to finishing it, didn't really start it either. Got to about page 11 and just had enough of the writing style. For a story that seemed original to me (a post apocalyptic earth where most of the men have died out due to a viral outbreak) the writing/dialogue seemed anything but original; "arrest her, throw away the key" for example (that phrase wasn't so bad but it really is overused), but it got much worse with "fad" phrases like "Holy living boys, Batman", the use of the word "Hilaire" instead of hilarious, "Just saying." or "Living Your Best Life" (eww, stop), and "Gotta catch 'em all!". As if an adult writing a story for adults would use the phrase "Holy blah blah, Batman" or reference Pokemon. The writing is just so childish, seems like something a young teenager would think was "cool". And still, it got worse. Besides the cringe-worthy "cool" phrases, the author actually used a hashtag as a sentence; "#bunkerlife.". Hashtags are meant to tag words to help others find a post, like on Reddit or StackExchange, they aren't phrases!! (Again, something a tween would probably write/say/do).

Moving aside from all that, on page 11 the author then writes about how Miles (the son) took French for 6 months in school, then goes on to say "which he sucked at, because back home in Joburg they did Zulu at school, not stupid French." Now, maybe I was just offended because I am, and my heritage is, of French decent, but I wonder how the general populous would feel if I wrote a novel and flipped that phrase around to mock and degrade the Zulu language... Yeah, I'm sure that would go over oh so well. Then again, I wouldn't do that because I see no point in debasing someone or something else just because I can't identify with it.

I tried looking ahead to see if this type of "cool" writing would continue or to see if the story would get any better, and it didn't (from what I saw).

The book gets pretty raunchy, some kind of sex club or sex slave traders at a place called Barbarella's (again, so original), where someone standing outside is wearing a "codpiece with a giant, erect purple dick...over her jeans" and that same "giant purple joke of a penis... wobbling in his "Mile's" peripheral vision" or the even better description of "a black-and-white photograph of a man's butt with a whip sticking out of it like a tail". Wow.
Now, I'm no prude, but why bother placing a 13-year old child in those circumstances or at the very least why write it that way--for shock value? Thanks, but I'll pass.

Now not only did the book not get any better/more interesting but it goes on to make light of and mock the way medical practices are controlled, as if the rules make no sense? Not only is this ridiculous and uneducated that someone who obviously has no medical understanding thinks it a good idea to bash these rules, it's irresponsible.

In chapter 42 the author writes about how a cashier "doesn't blink" when Billie (Cole's sister) buy bullets, but "the pharmacist refuses to give her antibiotics without a prescription. Fucking America."

At this point, I would say "the author, who is an adult, surely knows why pharmacists won't give antibiotics without a prescription" but considering the rest of what I read/saw, she obviously doesn't have a fucking clue. Then let me enlighten you: pharmacists can't give antibiotics without a prescription because a doctor needs to see you first and make sure that they are going to give you a strong enough antibiotic for a long enough period of time to fully kill off the bacteria inside you, that's why doctors say not to stop taking the antibiotics when you begin to feel better because if you do stop taking them and the bacteria isn't fully killed off, the bacteria will become immune to that strain of antibiotic which is how the likes of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and others were created, and not only do doctors need to ensure you are getting the proper antibiotics for the proper amount of time but they also need to know your medical history before prescribing such medicines, gonorrhea, for example, became resistant to many antibiotics because a doctor prescribed antibiotics to a patient for their cold without knowing the patient had the sexually transmitted infection, the antibiotics were either not strong enough or the patient did not have enough of them to treat the gonorrhea (because it was for his cold) and the infection became a much greater problem for everyone. People who are not doctors thinking they know how or when to take antibiotics which is the reason why serious medical conditions are created, about 14% of Americans store their unused antibiotics (that is more than insane, it is extremely scary) or buy them from flee markets of obtain them from other illegal means--YOU ARE NOT HELPING YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSE BY DOING THIS!! This is actually a huge problem right now as many illnesses are becoming antibiotic resistant more and more everyday, to the point where doctors have nothing to fight off some bacterial infections, think about that for a moment and the very real implications the world will suffer from it.

Okay, I think I made my point.
The book was definitely not for me and was a major let down.